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<p>I must admit I've been a "tractive effort junkie." Almost every one of my locomotives have been tweaked for additional effort. My two blue box Athearn AC4400's have 22 ounces of lead added to each of them and together pull my 12-car coal train (real coal) up a 3% grade. Do the growl, yep, but the real guys do as well. They're also very smooth running and can really cruise if you want them too. My pair of GP-60's, where I've added about 12 ounces of lead each pull almost as well. I've even tweaked my Stewart F7's with extra lead. Even with all my tweaking, I wouldn't push my equipment past a 4% grade. My Genesis Mike just doesn't allow me to add hardly anything to it, and is as anemicas one can get.</p><p> The only way I'd consider a steeper grade is if you had cast boilers on a shay, and modeled an old-time logging railroad that only pulled a couple of cars at a time.</p><p>Mark in Utah</p>
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