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I was the only 1 at club this morning and I decided to try. I am going to do 300 as soon as I get my other train finished. As you will see it is a couple of trains together but still cool. Here is the link:
There is actually 3. I have a mid train helper in there. I was able to do it with 2 loco's on the flat, 1 front 1 mid, but when I got it up on the upper levels with grades it needed 3. The first 20 or so cars are weighted starting at 12oz. The loads add a few oz. because they are home made and heavier than they should be making most of the cars around 5.5 - 6 oz. 90% of them have loads. I'm still working on the rest. The locomotives have weight stuffed in every hole though making them weight just under 2lbs.
NMRA specs for good operation is 1 ounce plus half an ounce for every inch of car. You'll wear out your truck journals and axle points with that much weight!
I think its great to have accuracy in modeling....like the weight and all.....when/if you have the time. I enjoy that even the N scale stuff I bought without improvement.....and without DCC sound still invokes similar dynamics with the clackity-clack of fast moving wheels on track and the groaning of a single atlas locomotive under the load of a 35 car mini-train.
NMRA specs for good operation is 1 ounce plus half an ounce for every inch of car. You'll wear out your truck journals and axle points with that much weight!
Yeah, but they go roundy, round without a hitch. The weight is sheet lead under the load just sitting in the car. That way when it's only 100 or so cars I can take it out and they are back to normal weight. It was just for this fun run.
Good, then I am close to scale with the regularly weighted cars. I never thought to figure that out. Thanks. I don't usually do this. I just wanted to see if I could.
