[Accrs-ho] It works - long train

[Dean & Margaret Lewis]

Jim,

Yesterday I was running a 60 car train with a caboose.   Same set-up.   
4 units on the point and 2 more 35 cars back in the consist.  The 
mid-train helpers were spliced (one on each end) by one of the Santa Fe 
RCE units they made from retired B-units.   Looked good and ran fine.   
It took 20 minutes to completely make a circuit at about 35 miles per 
hour.   Sound on the point and sound with the helpers.

Dean


On 10/23/2014 7:25 PM, james hague wrote:
> That is hard to do. Most of the time they want to derail the cars.
> You must have had enough weight and the correct speed of the engines.
> Jim
>
> *From:* Dean & Margaret Lewis <lewis2 at earthlink.net>
> *To:* ACCRS - HO <accrs-ho at mail.accrs.org>
> *Sent:* Sunday, October 19, 2014 11:58 AM
> *Subject:* [Accrs-ho] It works - long train
>
> On Friday I put together my Kaiser Fontana coal train.  50 cars, all
> now weathered.
>
> Four Santa Fe 'gators on the head end (RSD15's) and two more cut in 35
> cars back in the train.  All units were powered.
>
> I put them all in the same consist.  Ran at drag speed and made 2 or 3
> complete circuits before it was time to leave.  I had run a couple of
> circuits with 5 on the head-end before trying the mid train helpers.
> Wanted to see if any of the cars would cause a problem first.
>
> Something different and it worked without a problem.
>
> Dean
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