04-03-2014, 11:10 AM
Sumpter, thanks for your your comment.
I must say that I had made test runs with this model only on a straight track. Not good and that gives not an answer.
But I think there are not a big problem. You can interprete this loco as two very short coupled 5-coupled engines. I think that there will be enough flexibility with the new connection between two frame halves. And maybe you can recognize at my drawings, better yet on pictures, that each wheel group has two flangeless wheelsets in center - in numbers wheelsets 3 and 4 and 2 and 3 in rear group.
My 'main' area of operation is a big modular arrangement at US FREMO in Unna, Germany. The radii are not lesser than 40" together with #8 switches, in a few cases also #6. In all cases I can run the engines and my train on straight track over the whole layout - except for switching on staging yards. There are #6 switches how I know. So I must see how it will work in these yards.
I must say that I had made test runs with this model only on a straight track. Not good and that gives not an answer.
But I think there are not a big problem. You can interprete this loco as two very short coupled 5-coupled engines. I think that there will be enough flexibility with the new connection between two frame halves. And maybe you can recognize at my drawings, better yet on pictures, that each wheel group has two flangeless wheelsets in center - in numbers wheelsets 3 and 4 and 2 and 3 in rear group.
My 'main' area of operation is a big modular arrangement at US FREMO in Unna, Germany. The radii are not lesser than 40" together with #8 switches, in a few cases also #6. In all cases I can run the engines and my train on straight track over the whole layout - except for switching on staging yards. There are #6 switches how I know. So I must see how it will work in these yards.
Cheers, Bernd
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You can read some more about my model projects and interests in my chronicle of facebook.