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The grade is a piece of cake. It's the curve that kills you! That curve is almost a 3/4 circle, and you've got the head end pulling on one end, and the friction of the 20+ cars before the helpers on the other end. That's a sure-fire situation for a stringlining wreck.The only way to get out of that is by placing mid-train helpers every 7 cars or so, which unfortunetely brings up the problem of individual control. If both engineers had DT400s with duel throttle knobs, it might be possible, but with just UT4s (one knob) it's impossible to control that many locos at the same time.
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