For weighting cars, I use stick-on tyre (tire) weights. Hit the local tyre shop and ask for a few and you will possibly get them for free. There appears to be 2 types - one in 7g (1/4 oz) increments, and the other in 5/10g increments - that we get Here. Check out what is available locally. Gary. ------------------ Gary A. Rose The Unofficial TC&W page N to the Nth degree! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ what weight should cars be? I notice that a lot of box cars are light and some hoppers and others are HEAVY... is there a rule for this in N scale? ------------------ K, C, & Bird Butt Railroad - Southern Pacific fan, Its a coal mining region of a place far far away, that runs, SP, NS, and some CSX.. Also some Custom RARE Bird RR sd40-2's coming! Era: Time stands still round these parts, and we have everything from Steam, to Diesels of today.
Check out Rick Blanchard's site for his recommendations for car weights - http://urbaneagle.com/data/RRcarwts.html An alternative is the NMRA recommended weights - http://www.nmra.org/standards/rp-20_1.html Gary. ------------------ Gary A. Rose The Unofficial TC&W page N to the Nth degree!
The NMRA has a formula for all scales,and they are located in their web site.However the one for N-scale is: .50oz to start and .15oz for every REAL inch of car.It works in all scales. (I model in HO and N)But in N scale much more operation is possible. I weight ALL my cars use MT low profile wheelsets and have no problems at Ntrack shows.Try it you'll like it. ------------------ THE B&O ROCKS!!!! ROYAL BLUE [This message has been edited by ROYAL BLUE (edited 08 June 2000).] [This message has been edited by ROYAL BLUE (edited 08 June 2000).]
I've tried the weighting thing. Even to the point of weighting cars so if they were loaded they would be heavier than empty. I have since scrapped all that. Now I stick to the NMRA recommendations. But the crux of the underlying proplem still remains bad track, sharp curves and different rolling qualities of wheelsets.
