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Re: Super Chief Weight Issues
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lugnet.trains
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Sun, 3 Mar 2002 08:05:45 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Ahui Herrera writes:
> 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
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 and slow things down for some reason).
Jeroen
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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. (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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