What is the length of a Mountain type locomotive with tender? I’m wondering if it’ll fit on my 90 foot turntable with no coupler overhang. One figure I’ve found is 86 feet 2 1/2 inches. Is this correct?
Jarrell
It would be touchy in any case, Jarrell, particularly your requirement about the couplers. But the real difference will be brought to bear by the type of tender, and not a whole lot else. For example, the 1000-mile tender on the PRR M series would place even a couple of axles well off the bridge. A smaller regular tender would place the typical Mountain type on a 90’ turntable as it does my J1d Hudson…but with the same coupler overhang.
Beyond that, I hope you get some precise lengths from those who have the Bachmann Spectrum model because it will be tight at the axles.
-Crandell
PRR M1a with long distance tender was 108’ 2"
Nearest mountain to my house is about 2 miles long. [:-^]
My Model Railroader Cyclopedia gives the length of a USRA heavy as 83’ 10.5". This is over the pulling faces on the front of the loke and at the rear of the tenderr. Since the tender drawing for this loke does not give the distance from the rearmost tender axle to the tender’s pulling face a guesstimate for the distance from the front pilot axle to the rear tender axle wouild be about 75’. Now, unless you have a locomotive to tender gap of fifteen feet - which is excessive even for models - you would have no problem turning a USRA heavy Mountain on a 90’ table but . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . but, as has been pointed out, some roads - Pennsy in particular - operated with abnormally long tenders behind their mountains and that could interfer with operation on that length of table.
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My sister used to work as a guide at Banff and would get asked how much a mountain weighs. She would always ask “with or without snow?” [8D]
Sorry, just had to.
Now back to our regularly scheduled MR topics [:P]
I think you would need someone to measure the exact model you want. The model may not be the exact scaled down size from the 1:1 measurements. Lengths of the same loco may differ between manufacturers too.
If you tell us which one your looking at, maybe someone can measure theirs for you.
Thanks for all the replies. The engine I’m looking at is the Bachmann Spectrum
http://www.ares-server.com/Ares/Ares.asp?MerchantID=RET01229&Action=Catalog&Type=Product&ID=84009
Jarrell
Has a request for info on the Bachmann forum helped at all? You should get an answer fairly quickly there.
-Crandell
Thanks for the suggestion, Crandell I’ll give them a try.
J.