Thank you Randy, good advice. > Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:47:48 -0400 > From: jananran_@_mymailstation.com > To: erielack_@_lists.railfan.net > Subject: Re:RE: (erielack) track plan advice? > > The V&O used up a large basement. If you have that kind of room, you can work out a way to avoid the reverse-curve blues. Still -- if Armstrong, McClelland and Koester advise against short reverse curves at switches -- and they do -- heed them. > > You can get a compound ladder without reverse curves. Start with a straight lead. Insert a RH#6. Next, on the curved RH portion, inser another RH#6. Then curve the track from the LH branch of this switch to parallel its RH branch. Go back to the straight lead and do it again. And then again, until you have as many tracks as you want -- with no reverse curves. > > As to couplers -- there must be a reason why so many manufacturers try to imitate the KDs -- they work! Most of the "replacements" do not have the consistent performance of the KDs. In any scale. The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List http://EL-List.railfan.net/ To Unsubscribe: http://Lists.Railfan.net/erielackunsub.html ------------------------------
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