BATMAN wrote:Jeffrey Did you put the card stock under the track or the cork or foam road bed to elevate it?
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By the early 1900's the railroads were using Mikado 2-8-2's and smaller engines, like the Prairie 2-6-2 and Atlantic 4-4-2's that were used in high speed service. That is, while not necessarily meant for either slow or fast service (except for the Atlantic, I understand), they were often used for passenger and fast freight, such as for meats and other perishables. So, they would have been superelevating tighter curves back then to increase stability and tracking for the cars with higher centres of gravity, such as box cars and passenger cars.
I don't have the knowledge to say that the very first superelevating took place on such-and-such Road in April of 1895, or whatever, but I would think the practice dates to at least 1900.
Edit (added)-Try this link for more info, and note the date of 1897.
http://cprr.org/Museum/Ephemera/track_level.html
It does indeed look really nice to my eye, but I think we have a tendency to overdo it. Less is just right. You can also get superelevated subroadbed by sanding it so that it is a wee bit shallower on the inside of curves.
Less is more.
Do you bank (Like NASCAR does) your track on curves or do you just lay flat track? As always, thanks for your replies.