QUOTE: Originally posted by Ray Dunakin Originally posted by ttrigg QUOTE: As Curmudgeon so eloquently put it, going outside your retaining walls (on the downhill side) will give you a reason for bridgework. Cruise through the postings and you will find pictures where others have done it and it looks GOOD! The wider curves will allow longer engines and trains. I plan to do that with the loops on the upper levels of track, which will overlap the lower levels. But I can't go outside the retaining wall on the bottom level. In front of the retaining wall there is only a very narrow strip of ground which I'm using as a walkway for access and for operating the railroad. Beyond that is an iron fence. So the only way I can go to widen the curves at that level is into the hill. As someone else pointed out, the only place I'll be using such tight curves is on the ends, and then just on the first level. Much of the curves there will be hidden in tunnels and behind rock hills, so I'm not too concerned about how they'll look. I just want to be sure that I can run smalli***rains with a fair degree of reliability.
QUOTE: As Curmudgeon so eloquently put it, going outside your retaining walls (on the downhill side) will give you a reason for bridgework. Cruise through the postings and you will find pictures where others have done it and it looks GOOD! The wider curves will allow longer engines and trains.
Tom Trigg
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QUOTE: Let's say someone brings over a bigger engine to run. You're limited right away.
QUOTE: Let's say YOU decide to buy a bigger engine. Then to run it you get to tear out what you built and start over.
QUOTE: Originally posted by Curmudgeon If it was my venture, I'd cut into the hillside for part of the curve, and curved trestle the other part to open up the radius as big as possible. TOC
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