Train Mountain Triennial 2015- Ride Behind Larry Anderson's 2-8-8-8-2 Triplex Steam Engine 

At 6:10 and 29:40 there are clear views of the side of the Erie Triplex. Awesome work of art! Thanks for sharing!

Another Triplex was built by Baldwin: Virginian Ry. #700 2-8-8-8-4. It was unsuccessful, having insufficient grate area to push at over 5 mph. Its power would drop before its help was not needed. It was returned to Baldwin, where it was broken up into a 2-8-8-0 (later 2-8-8-2) and a 2-8-2. Its tender body was mounted on ordinary tender trucks. The 700’s problem might have been fixed if the exhaust from the tender engine, which cylinders were under the cab, had been piped to the smokebox to increase draft. As the locomotive was run compound, the exhaust from one rear engine cylinder being piped to the front engine and the other to the tender engine, the flaw in the design is easy to see. The limit on draft is when the firebed is lifted off of the grates and sucked through the tubes and out of the stack.

So cool! Just got to win the lottery.

magnificted ride Behind Larry Andersn´traim and steam locomotive 2-8-8-8-2 thank you myifrieend LEO brazil RAIL ferrleo!!

Look at the video closely. It shows a Northern Pacific 2-8-8-4 backing into a train but the rest of the video is of the 2-8-8-8-2 from behind pulling a different train. There is no point in the video where you can see the side of the triplex... The only side shot is of the other loco; the 2-8-8-4. Definitely confusing. There are other videos showing both locos so you can see the triplex in one of those.

this place is HUGEEEE

Are all sets of cylinders powered are is the back pain a dummy because the the real triplex had the problem of running out of steam because all those sets of cylinders used so much steam it would actually run out of steam in real life

How many cars can this thing pull? Also I may build a real super Garrett with a 2-10-10-2+2-10-10-2 wheel arrangement to do some testing with...

Didn't expect to see Gary Sharp go by at 7:06. Haven't seen him in a long while

Does the model suffer from the same issues as the original with running out of steam?

10/17/19 Hi Health L I take it you filmed this! Great job.. I don't know what GoPro is But I've always Used a Sony Camcorder. Thank you for letting me know. I've Subscribed to you're Channel..

I would love to do one lap of a miniature railway for a whole hour, our track is only 800m so it only takes 6 minutes

nice job

Kick ass

NP Yellowstones are awesome

Very nice video plus where this take place?

Trouble ahead- trouble behind-Casey Jones you better watch your speed…

very nice

09/29/19. I met Larry back at the Triennial 2003. I'd asked him why he didn't go down the hi and he sad because the Boiler couldn't produce enough steam to take care of 6 steam chest's. Said he was going to disconnect the rear. So seeing him going down the hill I guess that's what he did.

elon is cia op hello. who gets to shoot missles.. a programed we will go

Thats a 2-8-8-4 not a 2-8-8-8-2

Thats not a triplex. It's just a 2-8-8-4

Thats a duplex not a triplex...

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It is a ,2-8-8-2 , not a 2-8-8-8-2 , you have à lot of " 8" ... ! ? !

Elon musk

Do you guys have run through and snap switches for trailing moves?