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Re: Super Chief Weight Issues
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lugnet.trains
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Sun, 3 Mar 2002 08:33:50 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?
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 the trafo/regulator too much (you can see the green indicator
LED fading). So I generally stick to 2 motors maximum. Have you tried
swapping boogies, moving one of the motors from the Metroliner to the Santa
Fe engine?
With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen.
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| (...) I would agree there. You get BENEFIT from having the motor on a heavy vehicle because it reduces slippage. A few random observations. Manfried is right, 3 motors will often give worse performance than 2. And 4 can be correspondingly even (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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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. (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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