Curves
Posted: Wed May 03, 2017 6:39 pm
As some of you will be aware from the thread about the layout I'm working on atm, I've hit a bit of a planning snag.
I have 9ft in length, I can't really go much beyond this by much I expect due to being able to set it up at home. The current plan is for double track curving to create an L.
The plan for the station and sidings I'm for the most part happy about (as is my cohort Natalie after the laying of templates etc).
The problem, is the curve to form the L. The L is meant to have a traverser on the end of it, but using Templot, it is giving warnings (understandably) about how tight the curve needs to be to get to the board for connection onto the traverser. (the boards are 3ftx1ft6"+3ftx1ft6"+3ftx2ft currently).
Advice from those more experienced with P4 would be appreciated before I create a mess of too tight curves and regret it. However, the layout is an effort to learn these things to some extent.
Stock is mainly going to be bo-bo and EMUs, with some co-co and possibly some 6 coupled steam turning up (probably though more likely 4-4-0 or 0-4-4 etc).
I have 9ft in length, I can't really go much beyond this by much I expect due to being able to set it up at home. The current plan is for double track curving to create an L.
The plan for the station and sidings I'm for the most part happy about (as is my cohort Natalie after the laying of templates etc).
The problem, is the curve to form the L. The L is meant to have a traverser on the end of it, but using Templot, it is giving warnings (understandably) about how tight the curve needs to be to get to the board for connection onto the traverser. (the boards are 3ftx1ft6"+3ftx1ft6"+3ftx2ft currently).
Advice from those more experienced with P4 would be appreciated before I create a mess of too tight curves and regret it. However, the layout is an effort to learn these things to some extent.
Stock is mainly going to be bo-bo and EMUs, with some co-co and possibly some 6 coupled steam turning up (probably though more likely 4-4-0 or 0-4-4 etc).