An N-Scale Roller Coaster

That's cool!

 

Now that is impressive, and one very dedicated human....! Pity he didn't include a video.

 

Too much patience, not enough time for me.

 

OMG.....this ROCKS!!!!!

 

I am too chicken or lazy or whatever to consider a working model N scale roller coaster at this time. My thought is that it would need to have scale speed and scale ACCELERATION effects to look right. And how to do that?
Rather than cars depending on rails and their own motion, I would cheat and have a continuous chain or belt the nentire length of the roller coaster course, hidden inside/ under the track with a slot down the middle of the track for pin to hold the cars.
A hidden motor would drivbe the chain, and it would need to have some way to run at the proper speed at each part of the course, either with multiple sensors, or following a predetermined program based just on how far the car has run.
Go real slow up the main incline, speed up a little bit on the first curve, then accelerate dramatically on the big drop, and lose some speed as it comes back up again, etc. until it comes to the end and stops at the loading platform 20 seconds while scale passengers supposedly unload and load.
That's what it would take, and I don't believe I am going to do it.
My roller coaster will be a static model, when and if I build it. Maybe it is undergoing a safety check. When and if I ever get around to building it.

But I have gotten as far as drawing rough plans and building a cardboard mockup.

 

Thanks for sharing that was truly amazing. Heck even the carboard mock up later pictured was outstanding in my humble opinion.

 

Thanks for the link! It was a very extensive narration of the physics problems involved. I think I'd use a drag strip on the downhills and no strip uphill, or at least a lesser strip, as needed. The cars not only accelerate at scale factors, they also decelerate at the same factor. So I'd try a weighted car at the rear, with a weighted rub pad much like the Rocco track cleaning cars. Downhill, it would rub on a strip in the center of the track; uphill there would be no strip. My idea is that I would have to retard the first long drop, and then see what happens with the rest of the ride.

 

Wow!! I'm amazed that someone would have the skill, knowledge, and most of all patience to build it.
He deserves a few cases of something kool to drink and week in a rubber room to recover.
Do I ever admire this guy.
See ya
Ron