Have you added weight to your engine " other than Batt. " to improve traction? I was thinking of adding LEAD to the fuel tank on a USA engine. If you have did it help or hurt? Thanks Sean
Hi If you add wieght to your loco you may get more traction but it will not pull so many coaches/trucks, and motor will be working harder
Engines can handle quite a load. They are damaged if run at a high speed or climbing a steep grade. Regards, Dennis.
I just want the engines to dig into the snow and not float over it. I’ll be running 4 engines to push the plow or rotary snow blower! Just get er done!!!
Well it snowed today, then rain = heavy snow. Rotary no good. Plow did O.K. The engines with the weight did great , no sliding off. The plow did slid off the tracks @ curves, 20 footers “packed snow” was the cause. Engines seemed to push a lot better!! I think in the spring I’ll remove the weights. Sorry no pics or video’s. Sean
My plow train has had weight added to the locomotives with good and bad results. I have an elderly Aristo FA1 and FB1 with strengthened coupler posts and the addition of about 4 pounds weight in total inside the carbodies, over the trucks. The good news is that these two, along with an Aristo plow that has a 6 pound brick for ballast, have had good success clearing snow, even our heavy, wet west coast stuff. The bad news is that the power trucks are the old-style with outer-end bushings and poor, plastic gears driven by a brass worm. I don’t think the extra weight has been that detrimental to the trucks, more likely it’s the crushing stops as the snow build up becomes too great. I have not burned out motors, but I have had to replace power-trucks during the past eight years. Mind you, the service they provide is brutal, and it works.
http://www.skeenapacific.ca/railway/media/20050110-Plowingsnowshortsm.WMV
Hey I have one of those cabeeses that you have @ the end only in blue!! 
Nice video. I tryed to walk along but it hard to see what your doing. Sean