--- In [email protected], Jamie Bothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip> I am of the opinion that scale speed often looks too slow, but there could be other factors involved. Three come to mind... (1)Usually we stand away from our trains. If you're 8 feet away from a moving S scale train, that's almost a tenth of a mile (in scale terms) and the train will appear to be going slower. Same effect as watching a plane descending for landing. >From a distance the airplane appears to be just floating in air, when in fact it is moving 200 or so mph. (2) Our tinplate heritage, nuff said! (3) More's Law - if some speed is good, more speed is better!! <GRIN> To get a good speed relationship, I've always liked grade crossings. You can watch real trains and get a mental idea of how fast they move through grade crossings. Transfer that to a model layout and you begin to get the idea most modelers run their trains much faster than the prototype. Speaking of modeling, we finished re-motoring and adding DCC to a third 0-8-0 at Des Plaines Valley Saturday night. A consist of triple-headed 0-8-0's was a great sight, at any speed! Also gave the DCC equipted turbine its 100 hour tune-up and pulled about 60 cars for a break in. No one had a calculator so we were all pretty ignorant of what the cars should weight... <G> Jim K. The poll results are in....... To REPLY to the list, use REPLY ALL, to reply to the sender, use REPLY. I do NOT know if this works on all e-mail software, but it works on some of the most common ones. For those of you on DIGEST mode, all REPLY messages go to the list. Change your membership, change your message settings, use our CALENDAR, view shared files or photos, view the list archives, GO TO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
