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Measure the length and weigh the car, it may be underweight, and thus subject to all sorts of problems from irregularities in track guage or other gremlins. Check the NMRA standards, which as I recall is a base of 1.5 oz plus .5 oz per inch of length. If the car is light I would add the required additional weight until it is at least up to the minimum. I suspect that the increased drag of all of our cars being the proper weight will ever have a noticeable increase in wear to our other equipment! <br />Will <br />
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