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Thanks BB4005, our concern is that once the classification bowl starts to fill up, the repeated collisions of the cars will cause undo strain on the couplers as the distance from the hump decreases since the velocity is higher. We're figuring on an 18' classification track length BTW. Although It would be fun to be able to manually control the braking of the cars, I suppose that setting up as you descrbed would be just fine. The concern is that we have many kitbuilt and scratchbuilt cars between us. <br /> <br />Do you know of anybody that has built a working retarder unit?
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