After spending a few hours speed matching my locomotives I decided

to see if I could run them all together.  Here's the result.

A 12 unit consist. All with NCE decoders run on an NCE Power Cab

with Smart Booster. 

 

 

 

 

I was showing some friends my layout and starting running trains.

I told them my record train length  was 71 cars with 5 locomotives.

Since we had nothing better to do, we decided to break the record.

Before long the yard was empty and I was running this monster

train that went completely around the layout. With the slack runout

there was only about 6 inches bewtween the caboose and the lead

locomotive (as seen at the end of the video). 

 

House rules state that a train must complete 2 full, non-stop laps around the 

layout (approx 80' of main line) without any derailments to qualify

as a new record.  The train as you see it in the video completed

3 full laps without incendent. So my new record stands at.....

113 cars and 6 locomotives.  My brother was kind enough

to capture this video with his BlackBerry.

 

The next day when breaking down the train, I had to back it up.

The lead loco moved 10-1/2 inches backwards before the caboose

started to move.  Thats a lot of slack!