Just admit it - you tried this as a kid!

[nachoman]

This morning, I was testing out a 2-8-0 I recently put together, adding cars to the train one at a time. As the train got to 15 cars plus a caboose, I realized the train was reaching more than 1/3 of the way around my 4x8 layout. This reminded me of being a kid trying to make a train as long as the loop - where the engine can nearly couple to the caboose. I don't recall ever making a train that stretched more than halfway. Those lightweight bachmann cars didn't do so well around those 18" curves . So who has done it or tried doing it? Surely one of us was successful at making a train that literally caught it's own tail .