I don't know what the upper limit is, but one of my E6's can easily pull a twelve car train (with some of those cars being poor-rolling Walthers streamliners). Cheers, -Mark
If it's anything like BLI's E7, then the sky is the limit. I didn't have enough passenger cars to test my E7, but it pulled 47 40-foot and 50-foot freight cars on the flat and level. Those were stock MTL and Atlas cars, unweighted, original wheels, around 12.75"-radius curves. And that's one E7, not an A/B lashup. Jim
Well my experience with the E7's pulling power is less exciting. Initially I started with an ABB set (one dummy B) and it was struggling with a 12 car KATO passenger train on my 2.2% grade. Under strain, the traction tire would grab the rail and I had gear slip on one of the powered units. Granted, the dummy B is a brick so I temporalily solved the problem by replacing the dummy with a LL dummy trailing unit and have another powered unit on order. It just seems like an expensive fix...two Kato PA's will handle the same train with power to spare. Regards, Otto
I would definitely avoid BLI's dummy units. That all-metal chassis is a giant boat anchor... Cheers, -Mark
