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Although not very scientific I usually add a couple of 1/2 ounce round fishing wieghts to my rolling stock glued directly above each truck. I often find that this will stabilise the car quite nicely. I am not really concerned with being within NMRA standards on rolling stck wieght since there are very few organised MRR clubs in my area and most that are around do not have active layouts. Adding a little wieght to most rolling stock usually will help make the train roll more realistically however and be less wobbily on the rails especially in turns. I did learn that using sand in hopper cars is not a good idea unless you put a dummy insert like a piece of foam to fill most of the car. If you fill a car with a load of sand it will wiegh far too much and end up causing stringlines or required MU's to pull the string of cars. It is great to test the pulling power of a new loco though. A couple of hoppers loaded this way are great to give a new engine a workout and guage it's strength once it has been broken in a bit.
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