Postby John Donnelly » Mon Apr 13, 2020 1:57 pm
Testing, testing and more testing...
It occurred to me this morning that an ideal vehicle for testing the track was my never fully completed Penbits Bogie conversion of the Bachmann Class 24. Mechanically it is complete but cosmetically, I never finished it as the SLW 24 came along. As it has no bogie sides, it is great for testing as it is much easier to see what the wheels are doing when going over point work.
At the real South Pelaw Junction, the maximum permitted speed was 25mph so no need for express train speeds but I thought I'd run a couple of tests of the curved route of the single slip at speed so here are a couple of short videos of the 24 at speed over the formation. The track on the left hand end is deliberately dead for now to stop anything from running in to the wall.
The Class 31 in the background still does not always make it through without a derailment but, seeing what the 24 can do, whilst there is still some adjusting to be done, I'm a lot more positive about the accuracy of the track than I was a couple of days ago...