QUOTE: Originally posted by Mainestain Well I have a nice Overland engine and when they say recommended 28"+ radius they mean it! I love this engine so much I will not sell it though. I will just have to run it on my outside mainline. I tried to send it thru the 24" curves I have and it derailed every single time.
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
Marlon
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QUOTE: OK............. Don't quite get the point - there was a reason they said 28 - should not be a surpise should it?
QUOTE: Originally posted by dingoix QUOTE: OK............. Don't quite get the point - there was a reason they said 28 - should not be a surpise should it? Because most model w/ a min radius of ,say, 22" will run on 18".
QUOTE: Originally posted by jeffers_mz Kchronister, I have old time and "modern" 2-8-0's that run 18" curves all day every day. The old timers scoot through 15" radius curves without problem, and the modern 2-8-0 only comes off at a track joint on the 15" curves. I could probably fix the joint and use the locomotive, but I just don't need him in there, so it's not worth the effort. He's a mainline guy only. The only derailments I have these days are when my foggy old brain forgets to throw a turnout, or when backing long trains of cars using talgo trucks through a yard ladder. Maybe you just lay lumpy track... (Ducking behind the peninsula, peeking around the corner, alert for flying power packs) ;-)
QUOTE: Originally posted by Texas Zepher [ Most brass models never really get run anyway. They sit on collectors shelves.
I wonder what Overland says about the minimum radius of this Burlington M2A 2-10-2 beauty:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/290859460989?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2648
I mean when even my brass 2-10-4 with her larger 63" drivers can handle my 20" radius, then why should this small brass 2-10-2 with her 60" drivers not?
What do you think? When I look at the photo of the underside of the engine, it seems to me that the drivers have quite a bit of lateral play...