Weight for me! A heavier LC.

 DB applies lightweight thought to a weighty topic...

One of the the things we learned early on in the NZ120 story was that lightweight four wheel wagons don't always play well with a loco's body-mounted couplers. The loco end tends to throw out from the track centreline on tight curves, through crossovers and on other yard pointwork, and take the light four wheeler with it, whether there is any track there or not.

So before I start testing that old coal train around the big curve, I decided to add some preventative weight to the front LC which has a MicroTrains coupler at one end, for connecting the train to the locos. Ideally I want a low centre of gravity so the wagon won't topple over on curves.

A 20mm long section of steel rod was cut (the same stuff used for the CEs recently) with my knock-off Dremel. A matching slot was cut out of the Peco chassis to mount this low down, but not so low that it would be visible.

And a lead slug, which was recently found in the LA which became the yellow depot coal wagon, was squished in some big pliers. A hole was 'drilled' out of the coal load and the flattened slug was glued to the floor.

And then coal was reappplied. 

Nothing to see here, folks.