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Well, I have put together a very small 12 car ore set from walthers complete with loads. I have a schema where the mine is in a high area and the track will take these ore cars down a "switchback" to the river dock below for loading into a barge to send down river. I have two options I can use a Heisler or a Spectrum Decapod. Is a set of 4 ore cars too much weight on a HO 3% grade? I would assume that they are loaded going down with the engine first and empty back up. I am asking for suggestions regarding which of these two engines would be suited to this work? I happen to be in one of those "Writers...*Ahem.. Planner's Block and cannot decide which to use. I have a very big 2-8-8-2 coming sometime next year that may do the job very well but may make the train look too small. For other traffic there is really none besides Coal and Logging products comeing from that same area.
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