Good evening all,

I wanted to share a video of a long hopper train here and especially to Rob in Tx. The hopper bodies are all scratchbuilt by Bobby Glendinning. The train was operating on the Sipping & Switching Society of NC layout in Raleigh, NC during the 2018 event.

I am building an elevated loop in my son's bedroom. I bought a PROTO 2000 E7 engine and a full set of Rivarossi passenger cars. They already have knuckle couplers and I added the appropriate amount of weight to each car. I am testing everything at ground level and when I run at high speed I experience a lot of decoupling. The curves are 28 to 30" radius, so it's not because of tight turns.