So much wonderful help and information! Thanks to all who have shared their
thoughts and experience. I will have to print all of this out and ponder it.
Also, make a computer file as well. One thing I realized last night is that it
is easy to calculate the circumference of a circle of a known radius using pi
(3.14) timed the diameter. You could then draw said curve onto the plan,
dividing it into portions of a circle by degree. You then know just how many
running inches of track that portion of the curve represents. By simple
proportion, two lines of radius for example drawn at 90 degrees to one another
would indicate a quarter of the total circumference of that circle.I just
picked 90 degrees, but you could divide the drawn curve at what ever angles
(points) you wanted, even indicating where risers of needed height to comply
with the desired grade are to be placed. I like to play with math anyway so
this works for me, but all of the ideas you folks suggested are still
quite applicable and will be used I'm sure. Maybe I will make a table using
several different radii showing the distance traveled by various portions
(degrees) of the circle.
Gene
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