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| | | Hey Larry, (and everyone else!) I'm up to 89 cars/4 motors pulling (no mid train) :) 11 to go to break the big 100 mark...I'm not too sure if I can do it though... James P (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: Longest train... —James Powell
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| | | | (...) Added 4 more cars, and the whole thing keeps going to pot...I cannot get it to make a single trip around without the small (10L coal cars) from being dragged off the track. They are about 10 cars in, I might try moving some of the cars around, (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Longest train... —Frank Filz
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| | | | | (...) This must be an awsome sight. That train must be in excess of 40 feet long. What is your track layout to allow for this train? Do you have pictures? (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | Re: Longest train... —James Powell
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| | | | | | (...) I have a video clip of it in the 72 car version, the present one just has more cars...however, I cannot get it up on my geocities account, and have been too busy to get my Roadrunner account page setup. As for Ben's question, a mixture, with (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Longest train... —Kya Morden
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| | | | | | (...) I know very little about model trains sooooo, what is HEP? (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Longest train... —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) Head End Power. That is, engines on the front instead of spliced into the middle as mid train helpers, or pushing from behind as "regular" helpers. In American practice, I believe HEP isn't used that way, and it's just referred to as what's (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Longest train... —James Powell
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| | | | | | (...) Yes, this is the normal use of the term, it is usually used with electric power supplies...Steam wasn't rated in the same way, when you use HEP from the prime mover (read the Diesel that drives the train) there is less power to move the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Longest train... —Ben Fleskes
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| | | | How many axels does each car have. 2 or 4? Or is it a mixture? Ben F PNLTC (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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