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Has anyone done any recent research into what locos (and how many) will draw how many cars up what grades/ round what curves. We rarely use spirals here (UK) but I want to use three levels of staging tracks. I can get about 20' of clear tracks between ladders of switches... I reckon that's approximately 30 50' cars... Anyone know whether two Kato SD 40-2s [for example ] will pull this comfortably up 15' of 1:60 (About 1.5% I think???) curve could be 4' or 5' radius... (don't have a clue what offset that is). May also run 3 GP35s for same load... and similar. <br /> <br />Does anyone have any information on power supply / control? <br /> <br />DCC... I'm old fashioned so far but wonder whether DCC has any differences when putting on loads.
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