Thanks for the guidance. Got the railway crossings installed and working.

Love the contrasting light - warm and cool, yellow and white.

I get my f7 unit up a 10 degree incline !!!!!!with neodynium magnets under the track. Trick is you have to remove all steel weight from rolling stock and use smashed lead weight so they dont hold the engine down... it climbs the track like a champ no wheel slip.

What is a grizzly grate and why needed there? Same as livestock grate? Like the concrete!

Slowly catching up with my binge watching! Great channel and viewing progress. I am in awe of your positive attitude even when there are mishaps. I struggle with that and hoping I can get better as will make for a more pleasant experience and I KNOW stuff will happen LOL. Thanks again for sharing!

Quite enthralled by this particular video! I'm about to embark on Phase I of my HO layout which is turntable, roundhouse and yard so this is informative. Friend is finalizing the plan for me so no mess ups due to my lack of knowledge/exp. Just need to lay it out one - one and start doing what you are doing now. Looking forward to it and enjoying seeing yours come to fruition!

This really showed how much weight on the axles matters. 6 axles not as good as I expected, but makes sense since the weight is spread out. Thanks for doing this. I really enjoyed it.

Outstanding video! Great tips and techniques, was worth every minute of it!

Found your channel, catching up from beginning. Impressed with your video presentation and progress on layout! Subbed. Enjoying channel immensely.

Lots of information, thanks for sharing!

Hi Nsacler454 & it's is Randy and i like yours video is Cool & Thanks Nsacler454 & Friends Randy

AK makes a very realistic Concrete and Asphalt paint with actual texture. I have used it for my Parking lot and highway scenes with amazing results.

Looking great!! What brand are those very bright, light green bushes are you using??

I have learned so much from you.Thank you🚂🫵

Yup, N scale just doesn't do so great with grades. Pity we can't scale down gravity..., yet.

You do realize sound takes away from the total power it needs.

Great info, and Fun... Thanks...

Need to get a Rapido Dash 8, that thing's a tank

Sorry if you mentioned it in the video, but what kind of spray adhesive do you use? Thanks!

At Orlando N-Trak, we have a three-quarter helix going straight into a short 4.5% grade on a gradual curve. This is the nastiest part of the layout and is entirely the reason why it takes four six-axle diesels to pull a 25 car + caboose drag freight. Steam, apart from BLI's recent runs with diecast bodies and multiple traction tires, is pretty much unusable on that part of the layout with anything longer than a small handful of cars. So, I'd definitely say that grades make a huge difference. So too does the weight of the locomotives.

great video! almost seems like the yellow boxcar doesn't like to be pulled, like maybe it doesn't roll well... kinda makes me reconsider having ANY grades unless I am going to use 6-axle locos... good food for thought. cheers

Never mind the Super Bowl, this was exciting! NIce to see how these mainly 4 axle locos can pull!

YOU ARE HILARIOUS. GREAT VIDEO AND GOOD ENERGY NEVER GETS BORING. THANKS

If anyone wants to maximize your pulling ability I recommend using frog snot I use it for my layout and it works great

Fun vid bud! Kato F7's will haul the mail! I dont have an incline to test though. The wider metal bodies make them weigh a lot per axle

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What's about the rubber tyres? A small loco with rubber tyres can pull more than a big one without.

This was a thoroughly enjoyable video. Your play by play while the locos were climbing was awesome!

Thanks!

Just discovered your channel with this video. Haha EXACTLY what I needed to see as I'm rebuilding my n scale with very steep grades. This info really saved me a lot of time. I usually like to run trains weighted so they need four or five locos to get over the road. If a stalling engine is approaching a curve it will gain traction thru the curve from the added friction. I'm am pushing the subscription button.

This was very entertaining. I find my Kato SD70-MAC is a great puller that beats out all of my other locomotives.

Looks like Out of Gauge track after the Ballast starts, squeezing wheels? Either that or a hump? They all had issues there. Trailing cars were on straight track so something different at that one point.

Interesting and entertaining!

I'm from America! Will you use onces instead of grams! We don't use grams as a unit of measurement!!! 😮 I shouldn't have to convert grams into onces. 🫤

I looks like that one part of the track has a slightly higher incline than the rest. The gape between the rail segments also looks to be slightly wider than other parts of rail. The part where the curve starts.

I love my ScaleTrains but unfortunately, in N scale, they aren’t great pullers. HO? They pull great. N scale? Not so much.

Great video, the only thing you need to take into consideration and should've put on your chart was weight per axle for the locomotives. As a few commenters have already mentioned, this makes a huge difference between the 4 axle loco pulling better then some of the 6 axle locos. Also another factor is the decoder itself. Depending on the decoders programming and motor control it can change just how well the loco will pull the hill and curve loaded.

I'm starting to think that the pulling power is related to weight per axle. For example, the GP40 is 75g with 4 axles, making it 18.75g per axle, while the intermountain is 82g with 6 axle, making it 13.67g per axle, giving it a lot less traction. I'm also wondering if the amount of axles on the train made a difference for the weight, like if it can pull 3 hoppers but not a single box car, since the box car has all of its weight on 4 axles, while the 3 hoppers have their weight spread across 12 axles.

Great share nice to see all the different power and trying to pull up the inclined. Cool break down on each one very cool video

Are all 6 axles on the Scale trans Gevo drive axles? Thinking that might be the reason why it couldn't pull as much as one would have thought.

Axle weight can be a major impact. If you had two locos that had the exact same weight, except for one being a four axle and one being a six axle, the four axle would highly likely out pull the six axle. All that weight needing to be distributed over more axles so less pushing down on each. Now granted the six axle locos tend to be larger and hence heavy to make some of that up.

This was a fun one! Shame you don't have any Kato engines. I just tested my kato SD70 mac and it pulled 20 different cars around my layout. All on a flat surface but still very impressive.

Looks great but don't be hauling a oil/fuel tank car immediately after the locomotive... This is a definite NO NO in real life situations.. stick a flat car or boxcar between the operator and the 1st tank car

Just to confirm; After you add the first color of foliage, you dip the tree back into the glue in order add another color?

Id just send the atlas back and have them replace it with a complete different model and stay away from the s-2. Not worth the risk of getting another that has issues. Idk about the rapido since it was working a bit better or how long its break in time was.

Looks fantastic. Thank you!!

I enjoy learning from you

I’ve got the S2 and right out of the box it ran great and still does. I suspect Atlas may only test it on a straight piece of track and not take it through switches. If they do take it through any switches I suspect they use their own. I’m not sure why they don’t add a keep alive circuit to these especially the gold series with sound as it is annoying when the sound stops and stutters. I use insulfrog turnouts which help for the most part with all my locomotives.

I'd try cleaning the wheels and if that doesn't work i'd install a keep alive.