Hi there,
I have been battling my flex track now for two months plus! The problem I seem to have is this...
The 3 truck shay being the pickiest set of wheels of all my locomotives has a problem with a 18" radius. The coal tender that contains the middle set of wheels somehow likes to jump the track. I have tried to use a small line level to level the track but somehow no matter how level both rails are from one another, it seems to hop the rails at that point. Going VERY slow will keep the shay from derailing. Not, in my opinion very prototypical of having to execute a corner.
The rails are ballested with play box sand and wedged where the rails are out of adjustment. I have gone over the "derailing" track with a microscope and fine tooth comb. The 18" Tracksetta I use to design the radiuses on my layout also "agrees" that the rails are perfectly parrallel.
I should also mention that the sand I used to ballast was carefully cleared of the inner
rail(s).
What gives?
NCMRailroad.:thumb:
I have been battling my flex track now for two months plus! The problem I seem to have is this...
The 3 truck shay being the pickiest set of wheels of all my locomotives has a problem with a 18" radius. The coal tender that contains the middle set of wheels somehow likes to jump the track. I have tried to use a small line level to level the track but somehow no matter how level both rails are from one another, it seems to hop the rails at that point. Going VERY slow will keep the shay from derailing. Not, in my opinion very prototypical of having to execute a corner.
The rails are ballested with play box sand and wedged where the rails are out of adjustment. I have gone over the "derailing" track with a microscope and fine tooth comb. The 18" Tracksetta I use to design the radiuses on my layout also "agrees" that the rails are perfectly parrallel.
I should also mention that the sand I used to ballast was carefully cleared of the inner
rail(s).
What gives?
NCMRailroad.:thumb: