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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by JPM335</i> <br /><br />My P2K SD60 will handle over 100. But I do work hard to make my cars very free rolling. The two best things you can do is use metal wheels with metal axles and buy the truck tuner from micro mark. <br /> <br /> <br />[/quote] <br />You know all this pulling huge trains with one engine is cool and if thats how you like to do it thats cool, but I don't put to much importance into that, cause I mean on the prototype how often do you see just one SD-70 or C44-9 pullin 30-100 car trains solo, the most I ever see our little local switcher (GP38-2) is pulling like 12-15 cars at most and most railroads i watch use 2 to pull shorter trains and 3-5 some times 7-8 for the really long and heavy trains, and they almost always have helpers on maijor grades, unless the train is realy short. Thats just my prospective
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