Hi Dave, It's been a while since we communicated but I remember seeing photos your O layout and it looked very nice and your curves weren't a visual issue for sure. I didn't stop to think that 42" in "S" is the equivalent to 56" in "O" sort of puts it all in perspective.
I've had some great comments and suggestions offline as well and it looks like 42" and 44" radius curves with easements should be fine for what I intend to run. Now, I just need to find some UP "F" units, SW-9, FEF-3 and order an 0-6-0 from Dan and I'm off to the races. Thanks for all the help guys! Butch --- In [email protected], "ctxmf74" <c...@...> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "up148" <up148@> wrote: > > Although I won't be able to use more than 8' of the width for the first > > half of the room due to ingress and egress I should be able to use the full > > 11' width for the remainder as long as I don't mind a duck-under or lift > > bridge to get inside what I assume will be an around the wall layout. > > Hi Butch, My last O scale layout had 42 inch min curves so visualizing S > scale on them seems quite good to me. The other way to look at it is 42 > inches in S scale would be equivalent to 56 inches in O scale or 31 inches in > HO so that sounds pretty broad? > The other possibility would be to design the around the wall layout to go > across the room entrance with a removable door section then you could get > about 60 inch radius minimum? I did my last O layout this way and just left > the removable section out when not running trains and it worked great. > Either way I think you'll have a great time figuring it out and building it > and there are plenty of nice S locos that would look great on 42 inch radius. > > Regards, Dave Branum > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> 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/
