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Reply to "Did you bank the curves on your layout?"

OGR Webmaster posted:
BobbyD posted:

Putting some curved switches in, so how do you super elevate track where there is a crossover? Both tracks are on the same piece of wood.

In the real railroad world crossovers are not superelevated. Running speed through a crossover is rarely more than Medium Speed (30 mph) or Limited speed (45 mph.) At those speeds there is no need for any superelevation.

Thanks Rich, saved us a bunch of re-work work!

Boo Man posted:

With this post in mind, last night I was looking at my layout.  I have so many sidings with turnouts on curves that super-elevating would have been possible in only two curves on my entire layout.   

Same situation, and not sure it is worth the effort on those.

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