@DoubleDAZ posted:Thanks, Dan. We can revisit this when Dave gets closer to an actual build date, who knows what might change.
Yeah i’m pretty indecisive sometimes i know. But i think from what is presented here so far we all agree the elevations for 1” rise or so just isn’t the best. If the big boy was out of the picture i’m sure that we could do something crazy with 3 or 4% elevations but i saw what that did to my wizard of oz locomotive it didn’t look natural or smooth at all like a regular train. It climbed up such was cool but then when it went back down i had to cut the throttle way back as it wasn’t just going down it was barreling down the track so that’s when i said this ain’t gonna work and ditched the fast track all together. The icing on the cake was when my N&W 612 locomotive went down then decending side to came off the bridge then hit a small straight then a O72 curve and when it hit the curve on a decent of that trestle kit it fell right over the side even at slow speeds. I thought maybe it was a minimum curve radius issue but i looked it up and lionel said the model i had could handle O31 curves at that point i was like what gives
