How do you know if your train might too long? (more added)

[cudaken]

  If the helper engine is MU to the lead engine, your train is to long.

[el-capitan]

If a representative from guiness book of world records is on hand for an ops session......

A friend of mine that  owns a 10,000 sq ft o scale layout in the detroit area routinely runs 300 car coal trains. Recently (about a month ago) he broke the guiness record with a 1205 car train. It didn't make it very far, maybe 50 ft, but it was enough to break the record.

Here is a youtube from last year:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k38V0cKrv8

 

[ns3010]

When your passengers board the train, and have to get off before they walk far enough to find the bathroom.

When you get the train moving in the morning, go to school and lacrosse practice, get home, and it's still on the first lap.

When you fall asleep waiting for it to pass.

When your taking a video of it, and run out of memory before half of the train reaches you.

[jwhitten]

If the bridesmaids are all tripping down the aisle, your train might be too long...

If you leave Washington D.C at 1:00 pm and get a ticket for blocking traffic in Richmond VA at 1:01 pm, then your train might be too long...

If you have to resort to a satellite phone to talk to the caboose, then your train might be too long...

If Jeff Foxworthy can complete his whole act while walking alongside the consist, then your train might be too long....

If the birds flying north past the caboose turn around to go south before they reach the cab, your train might be too long...

If it takes more than a couple of hours to stretch the slack out of the couplers, then your train might be too long...

If your railroad enters into and completes a merger with another railroad before you pull into the station, then your train might be too long...

If the engineer's getting a tan while the conductor's getting frostbite, then your train might be too long...

If it takes the conductor more than an hour to walk the train hollering "All Aboard!", then your train might be too long...

If your train can leave Las Angeles and arrive in New York City at the same time, then your train might be too long...

If you can measure your train length in parsecs, then your train might be too long...

 

[Medina1128]

If your layout has a peninsula, and the engineer is waving to the passengers, while going in opposite directions past each other, your train might be too long.

[gondola1988]

You fellas know your never supposed to let your wife's ever to see your engines anywhere near the caboose because that means you spent more money. A fellow once collected trains near here and his wife hated his hobby so when he bought a new car or loco and she asked how much he spent on it his reply was always a few dollars, sadly he passed and she sold his collection of brass and other expensive cars and what not for a few dollars apiece not knowing the value of her husbands prized "toys" . Good thing I dont have that problem ,I collect trains and she collects dolls and beanie babies.Have fun guys and try not to smoke the wiring Jim. 

[cudaken]

  Jim, when I got started I collected nothing but Santa Fe Warbonnets for that very reason. They all looked the same to her, it took awhile before she realized how many I got up to.

  I all so keep a list so if or when she sells them she won't sell a $700.00 engine for $20.00.

 

                      Cuda Ken

[the North East Rail Modeler]

If you have 100,000 models of the UP 4-8-8-4 Big Boy, as well as 10,000 Centenial DD-40X's, plus roughly enough locomotives to where your roster is on a roughly 1scale loco:1 real loco ratio, and all are at 100% throttle, with locomotives accually on fire, and you cause all of North America to black out, with the train not moving, then you have a long train (as well as a completely impossible and unprototypical Big Boy roster and what could be the world's largest electric bill.)

[richhotrain]

When you have to ask the question, "Is this train too long?".

[blownout cylinder]

nscaler711

it might be too long if the wheelslip indicactor light blows and you welded your locomotives wheels to the track!

I had something like that happen once!! Don't think I'll try that one again either!!

When you blow decoders like they were popcorn----on all locomotives.

When the roster is all out there on one train---all 110 of 'em

You just discovered that your continuous circuit is helixed to another circuit---

Your electricity bill is such that the local constabulary come to see if you have a grow op------