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Mike, <br /> <br />The problem should be considered like this: <br /> <br />Consider the front loco by itself and the second loco pulling all the cars. When you cut the power on, the front loco is going to take off and the second loco is going to start off slower because of the load of pulling the cars. As soon as the front loco pulls the slack out of its coupler, the load it pulls will increase until it is sharing in the full load of the train. It doesn't matter which loco is faster. Either loco, in front, will take off faster than the other because the other is pulling cars by itself until the slack is run out. The only problem I have experienced is that sometimes these locos will uncouple because the slack in this coupler comes out very quickly. - Ed
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