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I model the steam era on my layout and I am wondering how long freight trains were back then compared to their American counterparts. Generally American engines were larger and had longer distances to go. I believe also that sidings were shorter which would limit the length of the train, perhaps 100 freight cars were about the limit. I also realize the tracks were not all uniform and could not handle heavier engines in some areas. Now in modern times perhaps they are longer then they were in the steam era - Fred
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The steam era in Germany ended around 1990.
In Western Germany there was a limit of 670 m and 250 axles. Weight was also an issue, therefore trains with the standard loop and hook couplers may well have been below those limits.
Today longer trains are allowed on certain relations (up to 835 m between Germany and Denmark). |
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Due to coupler strength limitations trains are much shorter than here in the US. Double heading is not the norm. Here one can see 5 or more Loks pulling a mile + long train.
On a model, 15+ wagons is a very satisfying Eurotrain. |
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Originally Posted by: mrmarklin  Double heading is not the norm. With 8,700 HP per electric loco, one loco can replace three diesel locos. For ore trains with 6,000 metric tons and 240+ axles, double headers of electric locos are the norm (BR 151 in the past, now BR 189). See also: https://www.marklin-user...th-in-Germany#post117907With diesel trains, double heading is more likely as power per loco is much lower. |
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I wonder if Mehmet will be fined by the DB when he exceeded the limits 
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Another reason for multi heading here in the US is that due to the stress on couplers on these super long trains, many times Loks are positioned in the middle of these trains and also at the rear. This can be observed on the part of the Transcontinental railway operated by the UP across Nevada, Utah and Wyoming.w |
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Received my 6/2015 Insider magazine today, and it includes a couple of photos of the Br95 prototype locos, one of it being used as a pusher on the Spessart climb between Laufach and Heigenbrucken during Spring 1946, and I can count at least 43 boxcars similar to those in the set that Marklin is producing to go with the new model. In this photo the train is wending its way around a curve on the hill and you can't see the front of the train.
The other photo is a Carl Bellingrodt one, taken in 1935, of a Br95 pulling a similar train of boxcars with about 30 boxcars in the photo (I can count up to about 20 wagons before the resolution of the picture gets too bad to distinguish individual wagons), and the caption says this photo is the inspiration for the boxcar set that is to accompany the model loco.
Both photos have a reasonable number of wagons with Bremserhaus dotted along the train, and a reasonable mix of low profile and raised roof wagons, so the mix of boxcars in the set will be a pretty good representation.
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