Does anyone have their coaling, sanding, and water towers on curved track? I'm playing with some track plans that use a passing siding on the end of an oval as the location for locomotive service structures. I could work in some 5in or 10in straights if necessary to accommodate track clearances for accessories.
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Ours are on a slight curve and we had to re-do the tracks a couple times. It really depends on what size of engines you are going to run in there. We have several articulated engines and they hit everything. The sand house had to be moved further from the track to accomadate the engines and the coal tower had to be moved closer to the turntable.
It's not ideal, but can be made to work. We would rather have 6 to 8 feet of straight track to work with, but it just wasn't there. It's all in and clearance is tight, but nothing hits.
Laidoffsick posted:Ours are on a slight curve and we had to re-do the tracks a couple times. It really depends on what size of engines you are going to run in there. We have several articulated engines and they hit everything. The sand house had to be moved further from the track to accomadate the engines and the coal tower had to be moved closer to the turntable.
It's not ideal, but can be made to work. We would rather have 6 to 8 feet of straight track to work with, but it just wasn't there. It's all in and clearance is tight, but nothing hits.
Looks really nice to me...
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