Ted S posted:It sounds like your loop is about 189" long. In your ~10 second video, the train completes about 3/4 of the loop. That works out to 51,000 inches per hour. The "scale factor" for S-gauge is 64. So it's actually travelling 3.3 million SCALE inches per hour. This equates to 51.5 scale miles per hour.
Think about how your passengers would feel... In real life, passenger trains only achieved those speeds where there were ample straightaways and gentle curves. I guarantee if the loco were shoving a camera car into those curves at that speed, you would get dizzy watching the video. If you want a little more speed, add voltage. Also, make sure your passenger car axles turn freely and have one drop of lubricant on each bearing.
The American Models Pacifics are outstandingly well-engineered locos. There is NOTHING in O gauge outside of Brass that compares. If I could trade, I would. Enjoy the realistic performance your loco has to offer!
It's a loop on a carpet around some furniture and an elf, not real life. Even I, "Joe Scale Guy" likes to let 'er rip every now and then. Very therapeutic...
I believe Bob's complaint it that is the maximum speed he can get right now, there is no more headroom. Besides, S Scale (or any other scale for that matter) passengers tend to be very sedentary and pretty much unaffected by the laws of physics...
Besides, if that short train is taxing the output his power supply, he will eventually repeatedly blow its breaker or let its smoke out.
Rusty
