Why do some/most don’t run steamers like this?

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Why? Maybe because of space we cannot run such locomotives like that. A layout ten feet in length at 1-87 a train would be braking before it reached a 'decent speed'.
 


TheXModelRailroader said:
I don't know, but I know I do! 😁
I am assuming you mean the speed right?
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It is not just the speed or even that locomotive any steamer on the road; it is the action of the drivers. Meaning instead of the thing looking like it can not get out of it's own way.
Roll it, make the locomotive look like it is pulling a load instead of some old out-of-breath old man climbing a set of stairs.

Pep
 
Very few of the big behemoths had to negotiate the tight curves and grades that most of us have on our model railroads. And not that many of us can actually pull a long train without chasing its own tail. My longest train pulled by a 2-10-4 is about six or eight hoppers plus a waycar (caboose to non-Burlington Route fans). Anyway, a lot of the bigger hogs ran at slow speeds. I do have a four-car (heavy weight) passenger train pulled by a 4-8-2 B-1 Mountain-type that I can run at a fair speed around the layout. And I have an eight-car streamliner, but it is pulled by an E5A-F7B.
We all do our best. Just have fun!
 
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