Total Time Around theLayout

I think @ 50smph it takes mine 5:10, give or take a few seconds.  

At 50 smph, about an hour and a half.    I certainly wish it was that long! Just kidding though, actually that would probably be about 30 seconds.

I sent one of my J's out last week and it hasn't returned yet...hmmmm  I actually am rebuilding my layout currently so I don't know yet.

red line at NJ Hi-Railers is about 12 minutes at about 20mph

At 50 smh It take about 45 seconds. I can seemingly increase that time to quite a while with a couple of Martinis though.

Fred

 I have to give a few seconds just to give it "time".

i dont know what system you run, with dcs you can get scale miles readout on a loop or any section of track you choose. 2 of my longest loops are 1.90 miles each.i guess thats about 2 + min.for me.-jim

I have no idea, but the club slowest run record was set by a first-generation conventional MTH Shay. Took 45 minutes to get around the layout running at minimal voltage. I estimate it was traveling at about 5 SMPH. The layout has changed since then and I don't think we could duplicate it without having the train stall, but now that this has been put out there you KNOW I'm going to have to try it.

Hi Spence • Interesting time test.

I don't know what speed I'm running at, but it took just under 14 minutes.

Matt, I remember Howie and I sent one train around the entire piece of main line track. It was over six minutes, I do not remember How fast it was going, however it was a passenger train so it was not a slow boat to china speed like the shay.

Spence - I have been running mostly Lionel lately so I'm not sure about train speeds.  How long should it take for a train to complete a 201 foot long mainline at 50 MPH?  I need you mathematical geniuses to jump in here.  I don't want to have to think that hard. 

Art

Hi Spence,

   My old layout the main line it took 2:25 going 30 mph

Alex

At a tiny bit more than half that speed, 26 scale miles per hour, a train takes that same time - two minutes and fifty seconds, for one pass around my number one mainline loop: my loop is only 135 feet around, whereas your loop must be about 260 feet.  I usually like to run at about 40 mph and it takes about minute and three quarters. 

Spence

I have absolutely no idea . But it's a interesting question. Your train was seriously hauling ***.

Elliot's and NJ Hi-Railers I about fell asleep. Don't get me wrong ...I love the videos. I will always watch them.

I think a 100 car coal trains coming  through Erwin is faster that Elliot's train makes it around his layout. Boy that's a big layout.

Anyway, I got to get me a go pro and make some movies. I bought both my sons one this past Christmas. And dear old Dad ain't got one yet.

I get a real kick out of the videos that all the OGR members post.  Seem to be a growing trend on here lately, and I do like it.

Larry

I doubt my main line is longer than maybe 30 feet. My trains will run prototypically slow, so it'll take a minute or two... literally.

I have no idea how fast they're going in conventional at the slowest speed possible without stalling somewhere, but it takes just under a minute.

I counted seventeen Mississippi, which wasn't easy to do by the way.

Great question!

Chugman,

201 feet X 48 / 5280 ft per mile = 1.8 miles

So your 201 foot main line is about 1.8 scale miles.

1.8 miles / 50 MPH = .036 hours

.036 hours X 60 minutes per hour = 2.16 minutes

Thanks, Lehigh74.  That is very interesting to me.

Art

By happenstance of it being as large as I could fit into the space, my Basement floor special, that is all I have to run on just now, worked our to being darn near exactly one half scale mile.  From time to time I time the trains to see what sort of speed they  are going.  Can't seem to do much less than about 10 mph on the low end without stalling(TMCC, LC, and Conventional all have about that same low end for me), but most of my engines will do well over prototypical speeds.  I find I like the "Look" of long freight moving about 25-30 SMPH, and shorter passengers trains about 50-60 SMPH

Layout #1 - 4.5 seconds

0-27 is the size, O is the shape

Layout #2 - 14.5 seconds

outer loop

Layout #3 - 32.5 seconds

ceiling-outer loop

Fallen flag-

The old basement layout 1 minute 30 seconds if it was set to the outer dog bone.

About 5-7 seconds less set on oval.(outer) 

At 50 SMPH:

Tracks 1, 2 and 3:  66 seconds +/- a few seconds.

Track 4:  52 seconds for an early PS2 Decapod (with strobe tape flywheel), 59 seconds for a PS3 Pacific