Basic Physics behind the system

The basic HO locomotive system is show in the following figure: From this the equations of motion can be readily derived. Schematically this is shown in the following Figure. This is the classic definition for a train system. There are several references on-line that show this or a similar schematic. The tractive effort is the …

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