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Locomotive question addendum
Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, October 9, 2003 8:53 AM
To up-date the previous locomotive question; I believe the new HO atlas, Dash8-40C will also run
on 18".
http://www.atlasrr.com/highlights/hodash840c.asp

Chuck Walsh

The above information is wrong.

1,000 apologies.
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Posted by nfmisso on Thursday, October 9, 2003 11:54 AM
May be, but it will squeal, and derail they car coupled to it. The Dash 8-40C is longer than a C30-7.
Nigel N&W in HO scale, 1950 - 1955 (..and some a bit newer too) Now in San Jose, California
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, October 9, 2003 12:01 PM
Better to go 22" or 24"

You can by cutting into the frame and trucks get it to go around 6 " radii but they are building engines now bigger and longer and 18" radius no longer gives good tradeoff except in the yard or branch line.

Houses and domiciles get ever smaller and we seem to be building em big and long to try and capture vision of the long ago lionel trains running on 20 x 30 layouts.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, October 9, 2003 4:24 PM
Originally posted by nfmisso

May be, but it will squeal, and derail they car coupled to it. The Dash 8-40C is longer than a C30-7.
/quote]
I'm not interested in the Dash8-40C and didn't pay attention but I thought Bob Pisani/Atlas replied to that 18"radius question.

One other question. Can the derailment be avoided by installing KD#26 longer shank?

Guess I Should go back and hit their search key.

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Posted by nfmisso on Friday, October 10, 2003 1:41 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by locomotive3
One other question. Can the derailment be avoided by installing KD#26 longer shank?


Hi Chuck;

I do not believe that any Kadee is long enough.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, October 10, 2003 9:37 PM
NIGEL.
Thanks.
I wired Rob this AM and still waiting for his reply. If I were a smart fellow I would have hard copied his offical comment covering some kind of new three axle model that runs on 18" but?

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, October 11, 2003 2:15 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by locomotive3

To up-date the previous locomotive question; I believe the new HO atlas, Dash8-40C will also run
on 18".
http://www.atlasrr.com/highlights/hodash840c.asp

Chuck Walsh


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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, October 14, 2003 1:04 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by locomotive3

To up-date the previous locomotive question; I believe the new HO atlas, Dash8-40C will also run
on 18".
http://www.atlasrr.com/highlights/hodash840c.asp

Chuck Walsh

The above information is wrong.

1,000 apologies.


C O R R E C T I O N !

It's the SD 24 that will run on 18" which has the same chassis as the SD35.

Excellent catch by NIGEL M.

http://www.atlasrr.com/highlights/hosd24.asp

You can also substitute 40 in place of 24 to see the SD40 model.

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