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Steam Locomotive Cylinder Sway

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqscywTjIS8
Starting at around 3:00 into this video linked here. Sometimes steamers generate enough power to override their suspension, especially when working pretty hard, and start to sway with the motion of the cylinders. Notice how 765 rocks with each blast from her stack, meaning the cylinders are affecting her on both the "in-stroke" and "out-stroke" (not really surprising due to the nature of double acting pistons but felt this was a bit necessary to add). I also want to point out the great stack talk in this vid too. Great example of a steamer working hard and sounding like it. Would it be possible to get something similar in IR with a modification of the current system?