« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: 9 3/4 inch curves  (Read 1127 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

h2w

  • Crew
  • *
  • Posts: 133
  • Respect: 0
9 3/4 inch curves
« on: November 02, 2014, 08:25:27 PM »
0
hello i'm an HO scale modeler but my son wants to go into n scale so I have picked up some n scale track and included is 20 pcs of 9 3/4 curved. what length cars can run on these? 50 foot or longer?
thanks
 Mark
Logged

Kisatchie

  • Crew
  • *
  • Posts: 4180
  • Gender: Male
  • Respect: +62
Re: 9 3/4 inch curves
« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2014, 08:45:04 PM »
0
I think you can squeak by with 50' cars, but I wouldn't go any longer.


Hmm... I wish that my
bananas were longer. I'm
starving...

Logged
Two scientists create a teleportation ray, and they try it out on a cricket. They put the cricket on one of the two teleportation pads in the room, and they turn the ray on.
The cricket jumps across the room onto the other pad.
"It works! It works!"

Dave V

  • Crew
  • *
  • Posts: 11230
  • Gender: Male
  • Foothills Farm Studios -- Dave's Model Railroading
  • Respect: +9345
Re: 9 3/4 inch curves
« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2014, 08:47:47 PM »
0
Generally that which in HO is appropriate for 18" radius curves works on 9 3/4" in N.  N is slightly more than half HO.
Logged

Viperjim1

  • Crew
  • *
  • Posts: 133
  • Respect: +8
Re: 9 3/4 inch curves
« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2014, 10:27:02 PM »
0
Don't use passenger cars unless you use the oldies ya know like 40' ers as 85 are to long and won't look right on the curves
Logged

nkalanaga

  • Crew
  • *
  • Posts: 9897
  • Respect: +1446
Re: 9 3/4 inch curves
« Reply #4 on: November 03, 2014, 12:46:22 AM »
0
Almost any N scale with truck mounted couplers will RUN on 9 3/4 inch curves, if he really wants to run the longer cars.  However, as the others said, long cars will look terrible on such curves, and shorter cars will also be much more reliable.

For what it's worth, Model Railroader has a page in the December issue on a new industrial switcher, built on a single SD40-2 truck.  Minimum radius:  175 feet, or 11 1/8 inches in N scale.  They don't say if that's the minimum for the truck, or the minimum coupled to another car, which is limited by coupler swing.
« Last Edit: November 03, 2014, 12:50:06 AM by nkalanaga »
Logged
N Kalanaga
Be well
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »