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Re: Longest train...
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 3 Feb 2000 01:17:17 GMT
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On Wed, 2 Feb 2000 20:29:32 GMT, "James Powell"
<wx732@freenet.victoria.bc.ca> wrote:
> I tried again with just HEP, and 93 cars is too many, it kept on derailing, so
> now I have a engine at about the 25 car mark in, and one on point...still, 89
> cars with HEP only is now the record...who wants to beat it?
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> James P
I know very little about model trains sooooo, what is HEP?
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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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| (...) 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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