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<p>[quote user="riogrande5761"]</p> <div class="quote-header"> </div> <blockquote class="quote"> <div class="quote-user">BMMECNYC</div> <div class="quote-content"> <p> </p> <div class="quote-header"> </div> <blockquote class="quote"> <div class="quote-user">Lone Wolf and Santa Fe</div> <div class="quote-content">If you know you are modeling an era with short locos and short cars then you could use 18 inch curves but if you can use bigger it is always better.</div> </blockquote> <div class="quote-footer"> </div> <p> </p> <p>This is not really accurate.  Bigger is not always better.  You could put a 72" radius minimum in a 13ft wide room...</p> </div> </blockquote> <div class="quote-footer"> </div> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>Yes, but taken in the spirit with which it was meant, I agree.  We need to talk like lawyers on this forum and word our posts very carefully to avoid the "yeah, but" replies.  So let me give this a try, "where possible, bigger is always better."?</p> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p>Still, no, not always.  The russians tried that with a 4-14-4 or something like that... didnt work out.</p> <p>Bigger can be a huge waste of space for spur tracks (it is situational).   Having a your mainline minimum radius for every spur track is excessive.  You only need the minimum that the rolling stock that serves that industry/minimum that your locomotive doing the switching can handle reliably.  Anything over that is gravy.  But not necessarily better.   A broad radius is a space eater.  If you arent using big rollingstock or locomotives, why would you give up that space when you could use it elsewhere. </p> <p>You dont need curves that make a 85' passenger car look good when you are spotting a 36' or 40' car an industry with a cab end switcher.</p> <p>[quote user="riogrande5761"]We need to talk like lawyers on this forum and word our posts very carefully to avoid the "yeah, but" replies.[/quote]</p> <p>We dont need to talk like lawyers, just avoid using inaccurate broad generalizations. </p>
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