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Minimum radius for passenger cars
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<p>I offer this idea.</p><p>Buy several curves.. 90 degrees or flex track and create the radius you want to test your passenger car (WHATEVER LENGTH they are). Go smaller in that radius until you hit the point of not being able to stay on the track. You just found the minimum for that car.</p><p>Repeat the exercise with a engine coupled to your passenger car (Your longest one) and go smaller in radius until you find the failure.</p><p>Whatever the failure radius you have, add two inches to it and you should have a radius that will handle that passenger car.</p><p>What we really should do is plan for the really BIG equiptment and go large radius as possible. THAT is the key to reliable operation. Sometimes you just cannot have both the cake and icing.</p>
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