pulling power

[Budliner]

I use 2 locomotive and have a nice grade like 3
and I have to have over 10 somtimes 15

what do you do ???



Budliner

[Anonymous]

I seen a train once-- i use 1 engine to pull 10-13 NON-FREE ROLLING cars, but will use 2-5 engines to pull 30-50 cars whne i get more cars and expand my layout.

[ARTHILL]

I pull 34 coal cars with a Mountain assisted by my Sierra. My BLI Mike can pull it alone, but it does not look as good. My 18" curves and 4% grades limit what I can do. I never expected to bringing a coal drag across a lumber road.

[jrbernier]

I normally run my road freight in the 12-15 car range. The limit is the staging tracks and sidings. They are set for 2 GP9's/12 cars/caboose. That size train seems to look right...now the engines can pull more than that!

Jim

[ICRR1964]

On my mainline I run 25 to 30 freight cars, with three locos pulling them. On my siding to the main line I have a twin engine waiting with 15 cars.

[selector]

I don't have the room, nor do I have much rolling stock. So, when I run two trains simultaneously, each pulls between 6-10 cars. When pulling a passenger train, 3-5.

[Anonymous]

My friend who is a Canadian Pacific Rail nut, has a complete [:0]110[:0] car grain train setup for N scale,no thats not a typing error 110 cars. Looks nice, lots of custom detailed/ weathered cars, microtrains wheels throughout, mid train distributed power. His next project in the works is a CP Coal unit train.

DC[8D]

[Budliner]

oh he got me on that one
110

yowey

[douginut]

I run trolleys and trolley freight. never more than 6 and mostly powered. I imagine that they might be able to pull up a 90% grade :-) if wheelslip were not a factor.
My real limiting factor is the radius of the curves, 8" radius curves tend to be a little tight for those 85 foot streamliners.
Oh yes I model mostly in N scale.

Doug, in Utah

[JohnT14808]

We had a club member run an HO train with five diesels pulling over 80 coal two bay coal hoppers. Took up most of the main line down the length of the club room, about 45 feet. He made it up the first helix, but could not make it around again. Couplers started failing on the 2.2% grade of the helixes.

[Budliner]

my firs few months I only ran the loco
wood was on the desk


lol

[Anonymous]

my passenger trains are all between 13 to 17 cars long. and my freight trains can reach 27 cars.

[Fergmiester]

I've done 70+ at times x 4

Fergie

[Budliner]

looks like my proto 2000's are the cats ***

its all I use

[orsonroy]

Trains longer that 30 cars overwhelmed my old layout, so I restricted mainline freights to 20-25 cars, and locals to 0-15 cars.

On the HO modular club I'm a member of, I regularly run coal drags of 70 cars...behind one steamer.

[Budliner]

70 thats my new target


b

[twhite]

Manifest freights on the Yuba River Sub usually run 20-35 cars, limited only by my 2.4% grades and the general size of the layout. They're generally pulled by either one articulated, or double-headed non-articulated steam. Local and way freights run considerably under, usually 5-10 cars and are pulled by my smaller power (2-8-0/2-8-2). Passenger trains average between 7-10 cars, depending on whether or not it's a local or a limited.
Tom

[Anonymous]

I pull 634 cars on my mainline....


That number is no more ridiculous than most of these polls!

[trainboyH16-44]

I usually run 8-10 cars in two trains, filling up the sidings, but sometimes (Like now) I have a erally long train, the current one is over 40 cars..it is 5 times as long as the sidings..

[CrossTrack Trains]

about five I like a shorter train for my logging operation and steep grades

[cwclark]

I can pull a train that has 32 cars using three locomotives, 1 mac 90, 1 ac4400, and a GE u-33c

[Budliner]

bump

[dxr8007nz]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cwclark

I can pull a train that has 32 cars using three locomotives, 1 mac 90, 1 ac4400, and a GE u-33c

3 locomotive power or some unpower ( dummy )

[Anonymous]

At the modules, I run a 160 car double stack train. But at home the mainline trains usually dont stretch over 60.

[dxr8007nz]

For me 2 or 3 ( which locomotive not have unpower ) locomotive can pull up to 15 or 20 cars if enough pull to when go uphill or need 2 front and 2 back easy push some time single locomtive ( GP38-2 ) can pull 15 car when uphill

[Budliner]

QUOTE: Originally posted by JPM335

At the modules, I run a 160 car double stack train. But at home the mainline trains usually dont stretch over 60.

thats a lot of rolling stock
be careful

[Anonymous]

Since all my engines are 5 ton little critters I keep my trains down to 1-2 cars.

[SOU Fan]

I don't have that much rolling stock. In fact I have as many engines as I have rolling stock 4 a piece[^]. I run four cars(all I own) with one engine.

[waltersrails]

mainly 11-15 every once in a while over 20 small layout.

[joecool1212]

I run 1 engine with 12 to 20 cars depending what im doing sometimes not that many customers are shipping that day so ill only run 12 or so.