pulling power

[joecool1212]

QUOTE: Originally posted by JPM335

QUOTE: Originally posted by AggroJones

Sometimes I run the BLI AC with 60 cars (maximum that can strung on entire layout) for the hell of it.
But most freight trains are around 20-25.

O yeah, the AC6000 pulls good. I can pull 82 on level track with it before the wheels start to slip. This was 50-60 foot boxcars, covered hoppers, and tankers. all free rolling.

Thats the next locomotive i will be purchasing as soon as I can find one. Glad to know it pulls that good. I have a sd40-2 BLI in csx paint it pulls about 35 free rolling cars. Not to bad but the P2K are the strongest pullers in my fleet. they do about 55 60 free rolling cars. Joe A.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by AggroJones

Sometimes I run the BLI AC with 60 cars (maximum that can strung on entire layout) for the hell of it.
But most freight trains are around 20-25.

O yeah, the AC6000 pulls good. I can pull 82 on level track with it before the wheels start to slip. This was 50-60 foot boxcars, covered hoppers, and tankers. all free rolling.

[AggroJones]

Sometimes I run the BLI AC with 60 cars (maximum that can strung on entire layout) for the hell of it.
But most freight trains are around 20-25.

[Anonymous]

luckily i didn't have much to clean up- no containers, no open loads, just a bunch of cars tipped over.(mainly boxcars)

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dingoix

I had that haapen w/ 28 NON_FREE ROLLING cars on my 18" curves- power was a U33C and GP38-2 and after a few rounds the cars tipped over to the inside- i just started laughing[(-D] even though it was a major derailment.

I saw it on an N scale layout at a show. It was a bunch of doulbe stack cars and containers went everywhere! It took a while to clean up.

[Anonymous]

I had that haapen w/ 28 NON_FREE ROLLING cars on my 18" curves- power was a U33C and GP38-2 and after a few rounds the cars tipped over to the inside- i just started laughing[(-D] even though it was a major derailment.

[Anonymous]

AHA! thats it

[Anonymous]

i think it's called "string-lining" when they tip over to the inside.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by 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

yep, I use 3 locos on front and 2 on the back at the modules. If you just pull a train that long the cars will tend to fall towards the inside of corners. There's some technical term for that but I cant remember.

[CMSTPP]

The Milwaukee Road was know for there grades and I have grade thats approximately 2.5% and my locos run quite nice down it. I've got two loco's on one train and about 20 to 25 cars on each train.

James

[Anonymous]

It depends on the layout i'm on. If i'm on my home layout. 15 or 16 cars for mainline freights. 5 or 6 for locals. occasionaly i'll run my entire 33 car unit grain train there, If i'm at the Club, i will run my 33 car unit grain with 2 or 3 engines.

[Budliner]

I use a proto 2000 caboose
just looks good

KJC

[PennsyHoosier]

10-15 double-headed with K4s leading the way

[Anonymous]

My sidinga can handle 2 locomotives with about a dozen cars, so that's where I operate most of the time.

The other evening I hooked up all my cars (61) and 4 locomotives on my main line - 3.5% max. grade, with about a 2.8& average grade which climbs 7 1/2". Made it around the layout 3 times (6 times around the room) before one of the cars in the back got hung up and string-lined the intermodals.

A good test for my trackwork.

Mark in Utah

[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.

[waltersrails]

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

[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.

[Anonymous]

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

[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

[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

[Anonymous]

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

[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 )

[Budliner]

bump

[cwclark]

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

[CrossTrack Trains]

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

[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..

[Anonymous]

I pull 634 cars on my mainline....


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

[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

[Budliner]

70 thats my new target


b

[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.