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How many engines needed to pull 100+ car train
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I took two LL p2k SD-9's and pulled 54 cars up a grade right at 2%. On my around the walls layout, the train took up over half the outside loop. These were mostly 40' & 50' transition era cars. A train of modern 85' TOFC's would be 100' long. That would take up both my loops of track!
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