Hello, I'm planning a double track siding on my confined space layout where I plan to have the Kato Daylight live when not in service (once it is released and I buy it). Because my layout claustrophobic I dont want to have to make this "dedicated" siding any bigger than I have to. I know it's probably far fetched, but does anyone know how long the GS4 + 10 car set will stretch?
You haven't bought yours yet???!!! As a rough guess, allocate 6" per car (80 scale ft), plus about 9" for the loco and tender (120 scale ft). That means about 6 ft overall. Nowhere to put that baby on my 2' x 4' test loop. Gotta run on Ntrak so's I can stretch her out!
Probably a little shorter than the CZ sets. My CZ is about 74" long without the motive power. It is actually 69.5" for the 11 cars but there is about 1/2" between each car so it is 74.5". With ABBA "F" units add ~16"... overall length is over 90" I expect the 10 car MDL to be about 60" long, without motive power, plus about 1/2" [3" total] for the gaps between the non-articulated units. The engine with tender should be about [edited] 9" long.... so my overall estimate is 72". Hmmm looks like I'm in agreement with DStuard!
Thanks guys. I have room to put the double siding at 3.5 feet long, so lets hope the train can uncouple in the very middle .
