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Trains, not slot cars!...

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Posted by Hoople on Friday, February 1, 2008 2:13 PM

I run trains at scale speeds. I do like to rev up with a passenger sometimes, or get to a nice clip. I've tried flooring it in my genesis challenger on DCC, but I stopped accellerating at 2/3 full throttle, it was going pretty fast then and I slowed it down before (I thought) it would tip over.

That engine can get going pretty fast.

 

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Posted by loathar on Friday, February 1, 2008 2:09 PM
You mean "coal drags" aren't supposed to be a race??Confused [%-)]Big Smile [:D]
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Posted by alfadawg01 on Friday, February 1, 2008 1:26 PM

 TA462 wrote:
I run mine basically at prototypical speeds but I like to run just the locomotives at full speed after I've serviced them to shake out the cobwebs.  

Do you have them tow a track cleaner to pick up the cobwebs?Whistling [:-^]

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Posted by Master of Big Sky Blue on Friday, February 1, 2008 1:11 PM

I thought it would be a neat Idea if I could findt he room to build a Race Way on my layout and demonstrate the differences in scale speed. But like all those others nice to haves it often gets cut out. Besides With all my model air planes an air plane museum would get squeesed in first.

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Trains, not slot cars!...
Posted by Tracklayer on Friday, February 1, 2008 12:39 PM

Hi gang.

I've had more than one friend or family member over to see my layout that insisted that I was running my trains "way too slow". The fact is I run my trains at scale speed (as best I can guess) between 35 to 50 mph depending on whether it's a steam loco or diesel. Anyways, I keep having to remind these folks that these are trains not slot cars. I do admit however that once in a great while I might goose them up to a much higher speed just for fun but only let them run that way for just a few seconds.

Tracklayer  

 

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