I am wondering if Lionels new scale Autorack cars would go thru a 048 curve? I know they are rated at 054 min curve. My loop consists of a mix of 060 and 048 curves with a max of 90 degrees in a row. Has any one tried this?
Thank You, Jon
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I believe they will not due to the construction of the coupler to this long car.
If you are running o-48, I would stay away from this one. I bought the CSX 2-pack and they are really long.
But they are also really awesome and I have several more on pre-order.
Unless someone responds sooner, I can check next time I go to my club. Either tonight or tomorrow night.
They drag a bit through 054, not to mention the silliness of a 2 foot car going through a curve with a radius equal to its length. I honestly wouldnt bother with anything less than 72.
Listen to the advice posted thus far. Until you see these cars in person, you won't really appreciate what 89' looks like in O-scale!!! 
Even if they somehow worked on 0-48'curves, they'd look utterly silly.
They're terrific cars. But if you don't have real estate on the layout for them, have you given thought to the display shelves? MTH also makes a nice version, but they are not quite scale -- measuring in at 18" or so. That's still a stretch on O-48 curves.
Lionel made several roadnames during the LTI years I believe, and these are even much smaller than the MTH models. But they might be the only ones out there that will actually "look right" on O-48 curves.
David
David
Even IF they did, WHY would you want to? That would look real silly!
I have 3 of them on 072 and the they barely look good. They would look really bad on small radius ..
Thank you for all the replys. I figured they would have some serious overhang. Some day I will rebuild with larger curves. I currently am running a scale GG1 and it overhangs a lot but works fine. For now I will pass on the Autoracks. I would also think the stack cars would be out also.
thank you, Jon
The MTH Premier Auto Carriers are supposed to operate on O-42 Curves. Try those instead.
Andrew
I am wondering if Lionels new scale Autorack cars would go thru a 048 curve? I know they are rated at 054 min curve. My loop consists of a mix of 060 and 048 curves with a max of 90 degrees in a row. Has any one tried this?
Thank You, Jon
Jon,
To answer your question, they will not go through my O-48 FasTrack curves that I use for my Christmas layout.
Even IF they did, WHY would you want to? That would look real silly!
I tested a single car on some 048 fastrack tonight. YES, it did roll okay and YES it did look silly
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