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big Oops...... what now???? HELP!!
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<p>Well, now....just how crooked is crooked? Over 36 feet a few irregularities are not unrealistic, particularly in a yard or siding Look at real rail line. That's just over three thousand scale HO feet or almost 3/5 of a mile.</p><p>True, everything about operation in modelling railroads is accentuated....loco speed, vertical distance, locomotive motion etc. etc.</p><p>But if you move at realistic speeds around the layout, the locomotive motion imparted by track irregularities (not those that cause running problems, but those such as a little waviness or dips or rises over 36 feet) is not atypical.</p><p>You might be able to pull up quite a few snapshots from <a href="http://www.railpictures.net/">http://www.railpictures.net/</a> to see actual waviness and track irregularities to ease your mind. </p><p>[img]http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/p875marc56jpg689761.jpg[/img] </p><p> </p><p>[img]http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/222.jpg[/img]</p><p> </p><p> If not eased, take it up and redo it, 'cause it will bug you forever!</p><p> </p><p>'Course a lean like this may occur on a badly-maintained line....but who is modelling a badly maintained line? There are limits.</p><p>[img]http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/lean.jpg[/img]</p>
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