Dale G. Kraus

Many commercially available freight and passenger cars, and almost all scratchbuilt cars are lighter that they should be for good tracking. For “house” cars (Boxcars, reefers, and the like) there is a simple, cheap solution. The weight of ten U.S. cents (pennies) is almost exactly one ounce (oz.). Therefore one-half oz. is 5 pennies and one quarter oz. is 2-1/2 pennies. Just stack them up, super-glue them together, and cement the stacks inside that too-light car.