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The MTH Railking Aerotrain With Prototypically Correct Ten Car Consist

The PRR Aerotrain with a full complement of cars. This locomotive has a reputation for poor pulling power due to the oddball rear power truck construction.

Coincidentally, the real Aerotrain locomotive also was a weak puller, so maybe it's not a surprise that the model shares that attribute!

In any case, I've tweaked this one so it can pull it's full complement of ten passenger cars up a 2.5% grade, so it's pulling power is sufficient for my railroad. This is a short demo to prove it's possible to actually run a prototypically train length with this locomotive.  You do have to make sure you properly lube all the cars as these four wheel cars are also known to have fairly high rolling resistance. Without proper lube, this demonstration probably would have failed.

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