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Super Chief Weight Issues
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lugnet.trains
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Sun, 3 Mar 2002 05:36:27 GMT
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Maybe this is just on my layout since it's on the rug and not a 'real' flat
surface. Last night, I connected the #10001 Metorlinear with the superchief
engine in the front just to see it in motion and I notice that my poor train
could not move it. The engine(s) kept slipping. I got a engine on the
front and back of the metrolinear an the middle passanger car. After this I
picked up the super chief and did notice that it's heavier than my other
cars. So what is my question? Well with the super chief being so heavy is
one motor as the instructions show enough to actually pull several cars?
I'm think that perhaps not. Perhaps an A and B unit with the B unit using 2
motors and the A using 1 might be enough to pull both heavy engines and say
4 cars. Has anyone tried this or knows the limit of how many cars 1 super
chief with 1 motor can handle?
-AHui
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Message has 4 Replies:
 | | Re: Super Chief Weight Issues
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| (...) I managed driving 2 A-units (one with motor), ML middlecar, ML clubcar and ML endcar (sans motor). My track is on a wooden floor. I will try this afternoon with some extra hopper waggons (2 axle and 4 axle), 7xxx waggons (which are both heavy (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Super Chief Weight Issues
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| (...) In my experience two motors should be enough to pull a very long and heavy train. Also, I've noticed that when you use 3 motors on a train, every now and then you loose nearly all tracktion power, because on these occasions it somehow drains (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Super Chief Weight Issues
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| (...) I have sucessfully used 1 motor in a 10020 to pull another 10020, and a full 'My Own Train' including it's locomotive (which did not have a motor.) All of this was on a large (think Ultimate Track Kit) layout that was also on a carpet and had (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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