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Re: Longest train...
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Wed, 2 Feb 2000 14:55:03 GMT
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James Powell wrote:

In lugnet.trains, James Powell writes:
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...


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, but, I don't think I can break 100 cars with front end power only.

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?

--
Frank Filz

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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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(...) 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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