Accurascale Deltic

[David Holman]

At the Chatham Club this evening we had a preplanned haulage test of one of the 00 Deltics. The main layout offers a large oval with 4' radius curves, so more and more coaches were assembled until an actual tailchaser was achieved with no less than 65 bogies.

 The Deltic was completely unphased by this massive load and had we the room, nobody would have been surprised if 100 bogies were pulled.

 Will post a picture later.

[leslie10646]

Beats my S Class on 11 bogies!

[David Holman]

  Here's a photo. 65 coaches at an average of day 25cm each = 16.5 metres, including the loco. Full size, a train like this would be over 1.3km long and weigh around 2600 tons.

 Would a real Deltic manage this? Did read somewhere that a model pulled a breeze block (on a wagon), but no idea how this compares with the weight of last night's models. Either way, very impressive.