Still another thought about modern railroading (help!)---
Many of the modern era cars are not local industry "friendly". Spine cars,
articulated well cars, tanktrains, unit coal trains, autoracks all come to
mind, which removes them from the "switchlist". Still useful would be the
smaller hopers, grain cars, tankcars, flatcars, gondolas and, of course,
boxcars. A major local industry car that I saw a lot were the center beam
flats, but quite big at 72 feet. I think that there is room for a
manufacturer to make money on these...
Bill Winans
-- Original Message -----
From: ctxmf74
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 7:27 PM
Subject: Size Matters (Was Re: {S-Scale List} An SD-7 in S Scale?
--- In [email protected], someone wrote
> > Modern railraoding is BIG, which of course, lends to its appeal.
(snip)
what should be considered the Modern Layout Minimum
> Requirements????
> 50" Radius Curves?
> #8 Switches? ( #10 on the main? )
> 20' Passing Sidings? ( Only two locos and 12 pig flats will fit!
It depends where one is coming from, after about 20 years in O
scale the older era S stuff looks small but the modern stuff looks
just right!
Yes. 50 inch would probably be fine, I'm planning to use 46 inch
for my next layout. It's entirely possible to model modern era without
89 foot cars. The longest things I see here on the branchline are
bulkhead lumber cars and 60 foot boxcars but most of the traffic is
shorter hoppers and cement cars.
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