Weekend Update 9/11/11

[DKS]

What an amazing piece of work you've got there.

+1

[Blazeman]

Went to State College and watched the Crimson Tide spank the Nitts. Sorry Dave.

Roll Tide!

[conrail98]

My layout is three levels. The bottom level is a huge staging yard with reverse loops, to turn trains if needed. The second and third level will have the scenery. It looks like a double track main but in reality its single track. When you leave the bottom level with a "northbound" train, you will go from the bottom level to the second. When you leave the second level, you climb again up to the third level. Once you leave the third level, then you go down the inside track of the helix all the way down to the bottom level.

Steve, what are the inner and outer radius in there and have you done any testing of train lengths on it?

Phil

[SD452XR]

Steve, what are the inner and outer radius in there and have you done any testing of train lengths on it?

Phil

They are around 22 and 24 inch radius. The climb is 3 inches per loop. It gives me around a 2.17% grade on the out side loop and 2.38% grade on the inner loop. My train length that I will be running will be around 25 cars. I haven't tried more than 40, but that pulled just fine. My goal was to keep everything under 2.5%.

Steve