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Reply to "Curvy... Help on how to calculate curve radii and and sectional length"

Roo posted:

Just draw or get someone to do it for you an accurate plan, transfer to baseboard, bend track around your marks and finished. You do need a drawing anyway this one is for the feeders. if you draw a plan first you know that everything will fit. Roo.

It is complicated because it can be! This layout will be deadrail only since my current locomotive, along with any future engines, will be battery powered.

 

 

Also thank you to everyone who has replied! I have been working this out and think I have an idea of how to redesign this. As a music major, I haven't had to do this kind of math in a while. To answer someone's question from earlier, I want to keep this sectional approach so I can work with very simple geometry for the lower mainline loop (as many 90* and 180* angles as possible). Also, my idea is that if I need to adjust a curve, I can reuse the cut section of a curve to cancel out the adjustment and continue in a straight line (i.e. in a yard). 

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