If I run my MTH Triplex out back without many cars, the road foreman will yell at me to bring more to the task. Back when I made my first videos of the full yard layout, I had a certain amount of cars to use (maybe 50?). As I acquired more cars, more things went wrong like broken couplers or ones that would drop out under the load. So I would distribute power thru the train to get it up the hills' 2% grade. I had to go thru my fleet and upgrade most stock couplers or their mounts.
One thing I noticed that no matter how many cars I got together, this Triplex would pull it. On my RR, it never ran out of steam!
So I should try it again with more cars that I now have. It just gets so expensive trying to get the fleet all uniform. It's easier to keep the trains shorter, or distribute the power. Our road foreman (above video) wants them all and had to learn that they just don't all get along!
