Hey guys,
I came across this problem the other day when I tried running my turbine on the REALLY tight 027 turn I made on the one end of the layout. All of my other locos can do it, just the turbine cant. It always jumps the rails! So I took the curve off, and ive been trying to figure out how I could soften it up a little bit. I fully extended the curve till it can for through fine without jumping them’ der’ tracks, but now the curve is way off! Anybody got any Ideas???[8D]
FRom the pix it appears that all you can do is cheat both straight sides out a bit until the curve fits. You can then adjust the other end with the straights to fit there, too. It won’t be totally straight, kinda of a long slight angle but at least it will fit. You can make this a straight illusion with good scenery!
Perhaps the added weight of a boiler casting will hold the train to the tracks. You can probably find one on eBay.
Jon [8D]
Cold.
Funny, but cold. [:D]
This is a hard way to solve it
Remove everything.
Make a new table top section.
Andrew
HAHAHA, very funny![swg][V] I have the boiler dowstairs, just was doing some maintenance, didn’t go through with it on either. I will probably shift some trackage over to comesate for the curve.
Jerry,
Have you thought about creating an easement into the curve with a larger radius track?
Jim
Jerry, if that’s a post war turbine it should have no problem with O27 curves. I have a 2020 that ran for years on an O27 layout. Are the flanges worn? Or as mentioned, try it with the body. There’s a lot of weight there.
Well, the problem was that i sqeezed the curve till it was basically a 022 curve, causing the wheels to bind. I moved the one straghtaway from it, and I got the curve worked out fine, now all my locos cruise through it no problem!
Some N gauge locos dont like curves that tight.
That’s the old pepper, Jerry! I knew you’d find the solution.
Jim