I recently received a new EMD GP40 locomotive. I am totally new at this railroading and wonder if someone could tell me about how many rolling stock cars should be or could be pulled by this locomotive. I inherited a large number of rolling stock cars a few weeks ago and i do not want to ruin the loco.
With that Loco about 10-12 car's...
I have Dash-940-B Loco's & I pull 11 car's around my layout with no problem I probly can run 1-2 more car's but my layout has a 2% grade I built into my layout..
The drivers will just slip if too many cars. No problem.
Rich
Thanks for the reply's. I was pulling a dummy loco and 13 pieces of rolling stock at one point but became concerned it would be too much.
i have dcc gp40 it can pull a 10 car train with no sweat