11-24-2009, 02:14 PM
Puddlejumper Wrote:Sorry this turned into a brake discussion... the bottom line though is that boxcar is fantastic!
Hey, no problem for me! I'm a lot smarter now than before this thread started. And thanks for the compliments on the boxcar. Again, it isn't a museum piece, but will serve well and look decent when being moved around on my layout. This weekend I hope to find the time to build a short length of ballasted "display" trackage on a board so I can take some nice photos of my completed rolling stock and upload them to the Gallery here.
DocWayne: Thanks for the info about the steel mill railroad using only the loco brakes for braking. I'm sure that at some point though, a long, heavy train would have to rely on the car brakes to help stop.
Considering a heavily loaded freight, I wonder if the brakes were locked up on the locomotive, but the cars were left free rolling, if that could actually cause a derailment with the cars slamming into each other....
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