@Choo Choo Charlie posted:CBS072
I found your comment below interesting on braking or retarding the rolling cars.
" the Dodge City Kansas Train Show. The club is out of North Platte, Nebraska. They used air blowing thru small tubes between the rails to slow the cars."
Adding electrical retarders would be required for each track or air tubes, with some kind of valve for each track. In your video, I think I can see each car slightly slow down after the first 2 feet or so, after being turned loose. It looks like it works very well, my first model hump yard in action.
Charlie
It has been 9 years or more the last time I saw the layout, I think each track had 3 tubes blowing air,, They may of had a valve on each of the tracks so to only turn the air on to the track that they were using, I remember they had a 10 gallon air compressor, but I do not remember how many times it started each day of the show. I will look to see if I have other pictures of the layout.
