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You think as long as I have runing trains.I would be pretty good when it comes to operating a train.Well to day was not my day.Had a train that kept derailing.It was doing what some might call stringing.After a few times of this happening.I have a d&h piggyback flat car with 2 trailers.I though since I have seen a lot of pictures with late steam pulling a mixed freight with piggyback trailers mixed in.Any way I remove the car the stringing stoped.So I put the car not in the middle but a little closser to the end.No more problems every thing is cool.Looks like the bigger the trains weight comes into play.Any body else out there has  this happen to them?

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Originally Posted by TrainsRMe:

I assume you put the car toward the front, not the rear?  Yes, I put lighter cars at the rear, heavier at the front.

I had in the middle of the train.The heavier  cars were up front so I moved it from the middle.To 2 cars boxcars closser to the end of the train.But still about 6 boxcars from the caboose.I forgot to take in account the weight of the car.Weight can be very tricky at times. 

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