Hi All:
I got a problem, can’t find out what degree #5 or #6 turn out is. I trying to keep all my turn out at the lowest degrees because of the length of the cars and engines.
The higher the number, the lower degree. If you are running modern stuff you might want to go with a #8–although I’ve heard people going as high as a number 12.
Basically you can determine the angle from the number. A number 5 is one unit divergence for 5 units length. Unfortunately I don’t have my trig book in front of me to give you the formula. Most people go with the turnout number not the angle of divergence.
The formula would be arctan ( 1 / x ) where x is the turnout number.
For most of #6, it is 9.5 degree. For #4, it is 12.5. I don’t have the info for #5 at hand.
Jerry
My triangle.exe program (a little freeware utility I found) gives the following:
#4: 14.4 deg.
#5: 11.5 deg
#6: 9.6 deg.
#8: 7.2 deg.