[Chode]

i said it merely because i thought it prolly takes a real driver not to smoke a clutch getting that train moving

and it must be a hell of a clutch, or are they some kind of hydraulic clutch?

[Olog-hai]

I would have thought that trucks that long would have gone diesel-electric like on a real railroad with real trains. Far fewer moving parts too, although I don’t know what kind of cooling requirements would be there for traction motors.

[immadashell]

… prolly takes a real driver not to smoke a clutch getting that train moving…

Or they only hook them up going down a long hill.😆

[DUMBGRUNT]

—” i thought it prolly takes a real driver not to smoke a clutch getting that train moving”

A friend’s father was a train engineer, he explained how you do not simply drive off with a loaded train, takes some experience.
Using the slack in many couplings and feeling the rhythm.
Power to the first few cars, then off the power, as the front cars lurch forward, power...
Using the momentum of the cars and the slack of the couplings.

Guessing there is not much slack in a fifth wheel?
Does anyone know the weight of this rolling monster?