# of cars pulled... What's your personal best?

A couple of cars were removed from my run due to coupler issues, the ones you see are the ones that stayed together.  Adding the helper in the middle helped spread the coupler load.

 

My best ever in 3 rail O gauge is an experiment from back in the early '90s.  The Custom Trains FM had just come out, and this thing obviously had some serious 'nads.  These first run versions came with twin Mabuchi cans that were considerably larger than the later flywheel equipped models.  So on went sixteen Lionel aluminum cars...all I had at the time.  Behind these I strung out forty five mixed vintage Lionel freight cars.  Fire up the big ZW, and off she went! 072 curves allowed this chooch to stay on the rails.  There were no grades on this attic floor layout.  The caboose was about three feet from the engine!  FWIW, the motors were very hard to control with the ZW and a lot of jerky action occurred when starting and stopping, or trying to creep. A standard Lionel FM would not handle this load, and I gained an appreciation for good fitting traction tires, which these guys had.  The cars were all lubed with LaBelle brown #107.

100 cars pulled by 4 Williams engines here you can see the engine passing over itself

60 old school style. All tin wheels on axles, no fast angle wheels etc.

 

Steve

 

Mine is a railkingps2 mohawk pulled a 47 car mixed freight

OK, I'm impressed.  Those 60 cars probably imparted a whole lot of drag!

 

Great video's everyone, Thanks.

41 on Atlas O72 through 2 curves using TMCC with a Lionel D&RG SD-50. Rolling stock was modern era and layout was an extended (8' X 16') folded dog bone using Woodland Scenics foam Trestle. Should have kept that layout. Changed layout after aquiring scale GG-1s

Haven't pulled any cars myself, but I did push a Ford LTD around a corner after it died at a traffic light....

 

I'll have to try running a long train on my layout. Won't be too many before the loco also becomes a pusher!  lol

A friend of mine has 6 MTH SD45T-2s pull 177 cars on his layout. Pretty sick!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...A1JPfDi_nIzOIRa296Vw

Next time (probably in my dreams) I'll do 200 just for BEN !  *Thanks for heads-up Todd !

 

Tom / Scott