Reply to "Pittsburgh Independent Hi-Railers' Layout at Kennywood Holiday Lights 2022"

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@Andy Hummell posted:
On Wednesday night (11/30/22), we were at Kennywood for some maintenance work and took a break to conduct this experiment to see if a 137 car ore train (about 80 feet of train! ) could be reliably pulled around the layout. And while the Lionel Big Boy pulled it like a champ, we are not likely to run this train when open to the public as finding any derailments would be a lot of work (a lot of ground to cover with people moving around the layout).

Andy

Absolutely, Andy! One finds that you have to balance what you want to do (super long consists) by what works and is practical when the public is watching.......we usually run these super long trains when it's a more private session.

Peter

12/3/226:53 AM

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