Post by atsda on Jun 15, 2024 3:33:01 GMT
Post by Country Joe on Jun 11, 2024 at 10:53am
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Jun 10, 2024 at 2:58pm
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said:
Joe, I agree that running trains at slow speed is more interesting. I like the idea that you run your N scale trains at prototypical speeds. What is the
difference in visual perspective when you run O scale and N scale at about 40 mph? Which appears to look like it's running faster? Alfred
Alfred, because O scale is three and a third times bigger than N scale an O scale train running at forty scale miles per hour is traveling three and a
third times faster past the operator than the N scale train. I tried running my O trains at forty, fifty and even sixty scale miles per hour. Forty seemed
very fast to me and fifty or sixty seemed excessively fast. Thirty-five scale miles per hour was the fastest that I ran O scale trains and that felt quite
fast.
Running N scale at forty to fifty scale miles per hour feels right to me. I have my locomotives programmed to run at a top speed of about seventy scale
miles per hour. That feels fast but not excessively fast.
I don’t know if others would agree but I find that running O at higher scale speeds, even though prototypically correct, seems way too fast. I think the
size of the trains makes a big difference in how the speed feels to the operator.
Joe,
Thanks for your observations and perspective. Now that I am putting together a good track system (with good mechanical and electrical connections, longer runs and wider track radii), I can run at slower speeds – which I like.
Alfred
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Jun 10, 2024 at 2:58pm
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said:
Joe, I agree that running trains at slow speed is more interesting. I like the idea that you run your N scale trains at prototypical speeds. What is the
difference in visual perspective when you run O scale and N scale at about 40 mph? Which appears to look like it's running faster? Alfred
Alfred, because O scale is three and a third times bigger than N scale an O scale train running at forty scale miles per hour is traveling three and a
third times faster past the operator than the N scale train. I tried running my O trains at forty, fifty and even sixty scale miles per hour. Forty seemed
very fast to me and fifty or sixty seemed excessively fast. Thirty-five scale miles per hour was the fastest that I ran O scale trains and that felt quite
fast.
Running N scale at forty to fifty scale miles per hour feels right to me. I have my locomotives programmed to run at a top speed of about seventy scale
miles per hour. That feels fast but not excessively fast.
I don’t know if others would agree but I find that running O at higher scale speeds, even though prototypically correct, seems way too fast. I think the
size of the trains makes a big difference in how the speed feels to the operator.
Joe,
Thanks for your observations and perspective. Now that I am putting together a good track system (with good mechanical and electrical connections, longer runs and wider track radii), I can run at slower speeds – which I like.
Alfred
