I once pulled 9 passenger and 22 freight cars all at once.. with only 1 Lionel engine... it was a GP7 with front truck drive ONLY.... it had a vertical worm drive pullmor motor with 2 axle magne traction and 2 tires. ONLY 1 motor and it pulled 31 cars including passenger and postwar cars... I was impressed, I'm sure a quality 2 can motor Williams Diesel engine could pull that, but a 1can motor Williams, not a chance. I'm pretty sure Williams makes all there diesels with 2 motors, but a 1 motor Lionel Geep pulled a line of cars that was to heavy for a 2 motor K-line switcher to pull and those things are powerful. I pulled it on 0-60 curves, so there was no stringlining problem, I have an MTH engine that could out pull any Williams diesel ever made, the Premier SD90MAC, I know it can pull well over 100 cars on 0-72 curves. 2 RS-385 brass flywheel motors with 12 wheel drive and 4 tires... the engine weighs over 8lbs and is 20.5 inches long. it cost much more though than a williams. I know Williams have some really good pulling conventional engines for a low price, that's the good thing about them but I'm a MTH/Lionel guy, so I don't purchase there products.
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