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[quote user="ns3010"]Now it looks like a railroad-not a random assembly of various locomotives![/quote] Actually, now it looks like a war zone... [:-^] I've still got Alex's sand spill in Mascoma (formerly New Poland), pulpwood in the river in Canaan (formerly W. Formanek), and a 36 car train strung over the pass.The only thing I have to say in my railroad's defense is that, the only derailments caused by bad track were the one in Mascoma, and the few in Canaan. The rest were caused by a 36 car train with three locos on the front and three pushers behind the caboose, and enough 22" radius curves to make one and a half full circles! Even with the locomotive speeds perfectly matched (which they weren't), the friction of that many cars going around the 4/3 circle curve at the summit, plus the 4% grade, is enough to stringline the cars closer to the head end, and shove the ones closer to the rear off the tracks on the outside of the curve.And Alex completely rejected my idea of a midtrain helper, until I added one about 10 cars back from the head end, and it worked fine until we split the train, and both tried to rejoin it... The head end backed up, the rear end went forward, and we dumped some cars off the tracks. If I hadn't planted trees at the edge of the layout, I'd have several cars on the floor right now!We finally cut off the rear end helpers and added some mid-train helpers, and made it over the pass (almost) without incident. I've now limited train length to 15 cars, long enough to require helpers, but short enough to make it over the hill if both the head end and helpers are working together.EDIT: Alex, I think you had too much fun causing train wrecks...[swg]
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