Last weekend I visited a Fremo US-meeting in Unna Germany and first time my Erie L-1 did run on a bigger modular layout pulling all cars of my 1900 freight train. I made a short video that I would like to present you.
Click here for looking.

I digitalzed the model (without sound) and I made a few small improvements, 8 wheel power feeders at tender including full equalizing of tender trucks, new led lightning, new and finer coupler lift bars including small chains, couplers at tender and front for switching - and now after the test run I know that I must do a bit more yet.
Alone the 8 power feeders at tender are not enough for a trouble-free run! I must add feeders also at drivers. And I would like to add complete brake gears to both engine frames because they do not exist - and that at a model that was not the cheapest. But this can be a good way combine it with additional power feeders, I hope. And after this all will be do than I should reflect to add a sound decoder in place of one without sound.
All together many, many work and a job for next year or later yet. But I check the possibility to build the brake gears in 3D technology with use of metal. That could give a very fast and exact modelled success and a positive result seems to be possible.

Wonderfull !

Not only the L1, the whole train looks very good.

Thanks for sharing.

Thanks, Joerg!

That's a great looking engine ya got there. The Angus type are some of my favorites also. I did a quick search on them and found this site on them.
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I was going to base my next Camelback build on the L-1's so the drawings on this page will be very useful.

Sorry, a small correction of url to this website. http://www.trainweb.org/milepost51/eriel1.html
I know it because I have set it to link list of my website as recommendable source of information to this very specific engine. Thanks for remembering, E-paw.

** Here is a article in a magazine called " Railway and Locomotive Engineering " volume 20 1907.
A 4 page article on this locomotive starts on page 421 and ends on 424. It has all the usual info. Photos, side elevation drawing, Lot of particulars on the locomotives. And a story about how they, the Eire railroad, named this class of locomotive. If you do nothing else, read about the naming of this class of locomotive. Look on page 423. Below the photo of the engine with all the people standing on and around it. Story on naming the loco class begins in the left colum.

Information for this I found on line at " The Internet Archive " .

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frank

Frank, thanks! A very good addition - also to this website http://www.trainweb.org/milepost51/eriel1.html.