Another ATSF Admirer

Longest car looking for sideswipe clearance

Model wagons on curves "hang out" further than the prototype, thus larger spacing must be maintained around corners to prevent adjacent tracks "side-swiping" one another. Here we see my longest piece of rolling stock - a shiny silver passenger car - and we're looking at how much it overhangs. (And how badly it reflects the flash) There are two overhangs: 1) middle of the car on the inside of the curve 2) end of the car on the outside of the curve I'm looking at 15-17mm each side of track centre of "hit" and so 20-25mm for "clearance" Neighbouring track is 33-37mm away on centres, so I only have 5mm or so of clearance space

Longest car looking for sideswipe clearance
Another ATSF Admirer, Apr 25, 2008