burnthebox Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 Hi all, anyone got any ideas as to what length of track is necessary for a gradient up to the next level, that loco's, steam & diesel can climb with ease ! thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 jhb171achill Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 Just in from work and just happened across this now. Well Done, Dave for posting this and Jim for the PDF. JB, I think this would be a great solution for any layout with gradients, especially a smaller layout where space may not be readily available to allow a long enough gradient even to get one track to climb over another even though this only requires a few inches. Great is this is done at the planning stage as you'd have to tear up sections of gradient to cure wheel slip otherwise. Tedious additional step to do this on a larger layout though if your were to do it to allow smaller engines to shunt longer trains The two lines on which I'm loosely basing my project would have had 0.6.2T steam, or Bo-Bo (2095 class) diesels, and passenger loadings tended to be 3-4 bogies. In 009 scale, even a bogie is only about 5-6 inches long, so not heavy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 josefstadt Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 Excellent!! Thanks for posting John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hi all, anyone got any ideas as to what length of track is necessary for a gradient up to the next level, that loco's, steam & diesel can climb with ease ! thanks in advance.
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