Reply to "Gargraves Track Diameter and Spacing"

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@Jan posted:
There is a method to their madness. As the diameter gets larger the necessary spacing between tracks get smaller. The larger the diameter the less overhang you'll see; as the diameter approaches infinity (i.e. straight track) the overhang will disappear. Ross and Gargraves decrease the spacing with increasing diameter while Atlas, MTH, and Lionel chose to keep their spacings constant.
Jan

I currently use Fastrack in my temporary layout but have played with Ross/Gargraves in design software (dreaming about someday building a permanent layout) and wondered about this. Does this hold true even for scale Big Boys, DD35/DD40/Veranda type diesels, etc? I'm imagining a "worst case" scenario where a large loco is on an inner track and a string of 20" or 21" passenger cars are on the next track out

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