prrhorseshoecurve posted:Ok but did you see how dhort the trains are? Only 3 cars.
- You are right.
- Thomas and Sidney the dark blue diesel are each pulling 2 cars. James is pulling his tender and 1 car.
- I assume that the builder, Talley Ober, decided that this was the optimum train length, for the amount of space that he had available.
- If you go further toward the end of this video to the 31:15 point ( youtu.be/1v_yhwUtwco?t=31m15s ) where it shows Rob Mueller's Pine Summit layout running two trains using this "insulated-rail" method -- you will see that the steam engine on that two-train loop is pulling its tender and 7 freight cars, and the diesel is pulling 8 freight cars.
- Rob told me that this system works best, if the two trains are approximately the same speed and approximately the same length.
