Proposed N Scale

wombat457 Sep 24, 2017

  1. wombat457

    wombat457 TrainBoard Member

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    Mike,

    The pictures must be a bit misleading, your the second person to make mention of that. The steepest grade I have is 2.4%, at least that is according to SCARM. Regardless of what SCARM says, 2.5% will be the steepest grade I will be running over when the layout is physically built.

    If what I read is correct, that in N Scale you can go as high as 4% pulling 15 cars on the grade, then 2.5% should be a breeze. Frankly, I am sceptical of an N Scale loco being able to do that although I could be surprised.

    The most cars I will be pulling, with a Kato GEVO ES4400AC will be 15 I think. I don't think the length of the layout will warrant any more than that. If need be, I'll have another 3 GEVO's should they be needed :)
     

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