New ESM video - X58 load testing

[bbussey]

New video showing the ESM Pennsy X58's load testing, as well as tracking on tight radii while coupled to equipment with truck-mounted couplers.

Larger format on the ESM YouTube channel page and on the ESM website.

[Philip H]

Mr. Bussey,
The FCC has determined that your subject video contains TRAIN PORN of the highest quality!  Please cease and desist from producing and sharing these videos unless and until your corporate entity is enabled by the Federal Reserve to provide significant financing for rollingstock purchases.

Thank You,
Faceless Federal Bureaucrat

[sirenwerks]

Sweet! Will you be releasing a low ladder version as well? And are the NE-5s next? Or the PD3000?  ;D

[bbussey]

Three body versions.  I know it isn't that clear in the videos, but the trailing RP is the low-ladder/low-brakewheel version.  The leading RP is the as-built version.

The PD3000 is a possibility.  So is the NE5.  But the X58 has to get to market first, and then I really should visit other sections of the Atlantic coast which means the C&O well car will probably follow the X58.

[sirenwerks]

Ya know, with the NE-5 you'd be making some Midwestern modelers happy too. They look mighty fine in all of the CGW schemes. That would be at least 5 schemes, if you count the CNW post-merger schemes. And of course there would be some NH, PC, CR and B&M modelers that would appreciate it as well. And you know how those PC/CR dweebs are.  ;D

[Wardie]

B&M NE-5's yeah I could appreciate those

[bbussey]

If I hit the lottery and win an extra $50G, I'll move it up on the schedule. 

[Ian MacMillan]

I have a 2yo who could give those couplers some load/stress testing!