stackyFACTSIn a brilliant display of cost-cutting, some modern train layouts ditch the standard two sets of wheels per carriage. Instead, they permanently bolt the ends of two carriages onto a single shared set of wheels. It makes the train lighter and cheaper, though entirely impossible to uncouple quickly.
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