Originally Posted by rtr12:
Lots of good weight ideas here. While we are on the subject, what do you all do when the car is too heavy to start with instead of too light? I think I have a couple that are over weight.
That gets complicated. What comes to mind is some of those die-cast box cars and the K-Line die-cast heavy-duty (8-axle) flat cars. Sometimes the car has an internal weight. If so and you can disassemble the car, you can remove that and replace it with appropriate weight.
If you can't remove the weight, the best bet is to just put it at the front of the train and leave it at that since the material usually isn't dense enough for shaving unseen parts to be effective.
