SeeYou190If you have Shay locomotives, run counter-clockwise!
I swear I never saw this topic before and I never heard that about Shays. Do left turns bind the mechanism?
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
For most (probably 99%+) trains, it makes no difference.
If you have Shay locmotives, run counter-clockwise!
I have one locomotive that does not like left turns, so it runs clockwise.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Welcome to the forums GULF! I liked you better when you were B/A. Canadians may get that joke.
Yes, the question has been asked before and I think I was one of the askers so many years ago.
I run both ways as I have a balloon track and a turntable to swing things around. However, I do tend to run things anticlockwise for some reason and I have done that since Dad built me our first plywood Pacific.
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Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
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This has been asked here before. Nearly everyone runs their trains in both directions, but it's whatever you feel like.
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Gulf OilShould they run clockwise? Or alternatively, should they run counterclockwise?
I've not seen that question asked before. Are you right handed or left handed?
My first two layouts were just ovals and it never occured to me to run anything but clockwise. Layouts after that had a reversing loop so I go both ways.
If I wear the wheels off one side of my trains, I'm going to ask for recognition from Model Railroader.
In setting up trains to run in a loop as part of my layout, a question occurred to me. Is there a convention as to the direction in which trains should run? Should they run clockwise? Or alternatively, should they run counterclockwise? Does it matter?
Should I occasionally reverse the direction so as not to place undue wear on the same outside wheels?
Gulf