Super Elevated Curves

No, mine are not elevated. No O gauge clubs in my area.

Yes and i'm glad I did they look so much better.

Clem

Mine are and they really look sweet. Most effective on very broad curves.

I'm doing it on my home layout. One end of the layout with the passing siding has 0138/0128/0120. On the other end of the layout, the curves are 080-072-080 and 089-080-089. Just playing with a modern 16" boxcar, you can see the car roll into the curve. 

I used 1/4" x 1/16" basswood strips glued to the outer edge of wood Gargraves ties. It produces a scale 2.5 degree super elevation. 

Gilly

All of the former corner modules from the old IHMD layout have super elevation.  This was accomplished by taking 14 gauge wire and placing it on the edge of the ties about 10 degrees into each end of the curve. 

Works well. 

Here is a video. 

Regards,

Jerry

I was thinking about doing evated but now I am considering dropping the table to get the evated look. It seem to be the trend. 

@ gnnpnut   I've used the 14 gauge wire on some of the curves. Works well. I also used N gauge roadbed on the outside rail of the entire length of our helix track at NJ Hirailers to bank the continuous spiral. We can run a hundred car train with no problem. Its been in place at least six years now. 

I believe that you have misunderstood exactly what the term "super elevated curves" is all about. It has nothing to due with "elevating the layout". In order to allow faster passenger train speeds through curved track, the real railroads raised the outer portions of curved track, i.e. referred to as "super elevation". Once the vast majority of railroads got out of the fast passenger train business, the "super elevation" on curves was pretty much eliminated, mainly because it increased the drag resistance on long heavy freight trains.

Look carefully at the video posted above, by gnnpnut, and you will see how the train leans inward on the curve. In actual practice on model railroads it looks really nice, but it is extremely important to have a nice long transition area into and out of the super elevated curve.

I have a set for modular use. They're compound O112-104-104-112 90 degree corners. We put 1/8" x 1/2" self adhesive cork strip on the outer edge of the bottom of Ross roadbed. Transitions were done by stacking .020 styrene strips up to .10 in increments

It adds a little something extra

Kept the curves w/o super elevation. The club layout can still handle 100 car trains

This is a great idea.

I think I will use this for my expansion to my Lazy L someday.

Very realistic and cool looking.

Thanks

I like seeing a train lean into a curve and not losse that much speed.Where I live I have seen seaboard and southern do this.I messed around with the idea with my trains.As you can see here. It was fun to do this with my trains.