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HO Minimum Track Radius

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Posted by hjQi on Friday, March 18, 2022 11:45 PM

DigitalGriffin
There is a GENERAL forumula. The radius is generally recommended to be 3x the length of the rolling stock. Let's take a 85' passenger car. 85/87.1 (scale) = .97 or 11.72". Take that and multiply it by ~3.

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