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I ran some trains of different lengths today. There was a train of 8 cars that made me feel like I got total control and there will be no problems "pushing" them cars. They wont derail forwards or backwards. I then spent about 40 minutes assembling a monster 40 car freight backed by a double head set of steamers in a Consist. It seemed to suck up the entire railroad to marshal this very big train. I was able to drive it 6 feet. Where 4 seperate problems developed in the entire train at different locations. Trouble shooting these 4 issues (derailment, too close to a signal, short on front coupler of helper and freight cars that were not properly weighted to take the tension of all the others.) took another 40 minutes. At the end of the 3rd hour I had three seperate trains of 12-20 cars that managed to travel the entire railroad in both directions rather trouble free. I think I found my magic number.. instead of one monster train, dispatch two or three. However everyone should run a long train at least one time in the hobby if for no other reason than to "for the fun of it" Happy new year!
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