looking good!!
Hmmm - a small new problem has reared it’s head.
The old CN RDC’s had couplers mounted to the trucks. When I converted them, I moved the couplers to the body. The new trucks are a bit smaller and that combined with a few tight curves on my layout is causing the couplers to bind on the tight curves, derailing the coach. I may be able to modify the coupler slightly to allow a little bit more sideways motion - it does not need much. At this point, fixing the curves is not an option I relish. Either way, I need to fix it. It took me a while to figure out that it was the couplers binding - the coach was derailing on a switch and I thought it was the switch. Basically the curve caused the coupler on the loco to swing out one way, and the coach coupler the other way, and they met the limit - so then it just pushed the car off the tracks.
One of the reasons that the RDC cars seem to be worse than my Bombardier 85’ B-Level coaches is that the trucks on the RDC are set back quite far from the front and rear of the coach, so the swing is wider on curves. The trucks on the Bombardier coaches are quite close to the end of each coach so the swing on curves is less. I think that is pretty true to prototype.
Fixed the coupler issue. I provided a bit more sideways motion on the couplers and loosened one truck a bit to allow the car to flex a bit on uneven track.
Worked on the waterfall today. Some updated pics:
looking good glad to hear you sorted out the issues with the couplers.
I have a concern in the picture of the turnout the straight leg then the curve looks as though it may be a bit of a kink. just the way it looks to me in theis pic
I noticed that too. I need to take a look. I don’t have any issues there when I run trains and maybe it’s just one of those weird photo things making it look worse than it is.
ok cause i would hate to not say anything and you have to rip out your hard work later to fix it if it is an issue
My layout progress continues in this thread…