> I was just a bit disappointed when mine "only" pulled 16 <snip>
> cars up the 2% (the whole train). A later
> look revealed that all but two cars were well weighted, <snip>
> Bill Winans
Which brings me back to one of my favorite topics: car weight. I
would like to ask why is it so popular to weight cars to be heavier
than really needed? The NMRA figures for weight are followed almost
religiously by many, but they are way too heavy for me. I prefer
something in the vicinity of 50-66% of the NMRA suggestions. Thus,
much lighter and longer trains are possible. Unless you have very
sharp curves on very steep grades, is all that weight really needed?
Has anyone done some organized/controlled testing to see what works and
what tips over? Just curious and not intending to criticize Bill
Winan's weighting preferences in the least. But if the weight were
reduced by one-third, perhaps the length of the train could be
increased by one-third -- or something like that. Cheers...Ed L.
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