FT Wilderness cars

Well Richard, tell us more, did you get some?

I saw someone with the locomotive and the cars at diamondhead, VERY NICE! I like them alot. (stayed at fort wilderness quite a few times in disney world when I was younger - too bad that I don't remember the training running though.)

You have to be focused, that itty bitty coal fire needs lots of tending, if I even try to poke it with a wire or leave the firebox door open, you can hear the steam start to die down hehehe, GREAT fun though!!!

BTW, I can put up a VERY high res video of that timelapse (would probally be wmv), this is because It was made from DSLR stills (at medium res) that are still 2088 X 1448.

Maybe next year if I can get power to my camera and mini laptop, I will do an entire day timelapse! (played back faster lo, last video is 7 fps, maybe this time 15 fps or 30 fps loll) - definitely not enough time at diamondhead (5 days LOL) to do everything I wanted to. Each engine there is a work of art in there own way, worth studying and filming! Did anyone get any high res shots of Norm Saleys new scratch built coal engine, I mean wow!


Yes, hopefully one day I will acquire that fort wilderness engine... It is on the list lol

What a bummer the locomotive will not pull all the cars in the set. I am going to order the over size cylinders for it hope that helps.

What locomotive are you talking about? I have a Fort Wilderness Live Steam Loco (jazzed up Ruby) and I only bought three cars because someone said that the ruby would never pull all that weight. Boy were they wrong! I need about four more to help keep the speed down!

It's true, that out of the box it was a poor runner in forward, but by reversing the ecentrics 180 degrees, I have more power than I need for just three cars. There is a whole thread somewhere in the archives about accomplishing this for Ruby's. But let me tell you, my FWRR will pull a very big load!

Scott