Oakhurst Railroad Engineer wrote: I use these on my railroad. I use a stopwatch to time how long it takes my HO scale locomotive to travel 3 ft (the length of a piece of flextrack) and I use the following graph:
I use these on my railroad. I use a stopwatch to time how long it takes my HO scale locomotive to travel 3 ft (the length of a piece of flextrack) and I use the following graph:
I am reminded that some flextrack comes in 39 3/8" (1 meter) long sections, which could throw off the speeds by about 10% ... recalculation is a mathematical exercise I'll leave to the student ... as well as adapting the calculations for different scales ...
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My Oakhurst Railroad runs geared locomotives that I only want to go 5-15 scale mph. If you want to go faster, this figure is rescaled to handle speeds up to 100 scale mph:
Other scales will be different. Good luck and keep those speeds down. Most of us aren't supposed to be running "bullet trains" ...
Best Regards, Big John
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