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Well you have come to the right place to talk about camber, i have had camber problems as i assemble my own rails but your question about can I have a slope on the curves; well that really should be, may I. With discreet sections of track it is hard to do anything with it as far as camber is concerned, it can be done mind you but you will be misusing the rail assemblies in so doing. I have written quite a bit about this subject several times in previous forays on the forum, you may find reference to them in the archives. As far as gradient is concerned this is not all that tricky, I have made my own device to measure them using a standard spirit level. But from what i have experienced up to 3 % is ok and most engines that I have will pull a fair sized train up 4 % and sometimes 5 % even but the look is so unrealistic I wouldn't recommend doing it, works ok but looks very funny. I have had to go to 4% a lot, with lots of curves through lack of space. What the trouble is, is traction in the loco my little Stainz pulls 5 little carriages all the time but when you get to a 4 % gradient it will not do so, the loco loses traction and the drive wheels slip. it will just handle 4 and 3 carriages is very nice and this is why I am going to steel wheels with ball bearing on all my small carriages. My big Mallet will pull 3 big carriages anywhere plus 4 litres of white wine; so it is different all the time and that is what is so good about this pasttime. I do not agree with my fellow forummers about having different guages for up and down, you may only go one way at the moment but one day you may get sick of this and wi***o go the other way (i have) so what goes up must come down. Reards ian
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