I have one and will lay rails on a flat to replicate it in operation.
What size rail would be best? HO or N ?
What size rail would be best? HO or N ?
Yeah there is, it just looks like sheet and strip styrene on the Evergreen rack right now!As far as I know there is no kit for a Barnhart Loader in O scale.
I have one and will lay rails on a flat to replicate it in operation.
What size rail would be best? HO or N ?
It also has something to do with the profile of the track and how well certain wheel flanges will run on it, doesn't it?
On a different note - how do you keep cars from uncoupling on that steep break in grade?
The grade itself doesn't cause uncoupling. the uncoupling occurs when the vertical curve, or the transition from level track to a grade, or from one grade to another is too steep. The problems with a steep vertical curve are increased with longer cars and locomotives.
As a safety precaution, locomotives are kept on the downgrade side of trains on the Mountain Division, regardless of direction of travel. Also. locomotives always face up hill to help keep water on the crown sheet. This precaution seems to work well, as in more than 40 years of operating on ridiculous grades, I have yet to have a boiler explosion from grade related issues.
Bill Nelson