Wolfgang Dudler's Blog

May 24

Today was a bad day for WT. A derailment occured, someone had pushed a string of hoppers too far!!!

May 21

Narrow gauge country.

May 17

At modul arrangements the narrow gauge track has sometimes to change within the standard gauge track. You need a transition track. Here's my module, 250 mm long.

May 13

Today I've got my TrainBoard car:

May 9

Today Friedhelm and I checked H0n3 engines. I had built a test track. I made the drawings with different radii, glued the paper to foam board, glued the ties and soldered the rail.

Then we tested different engines.

Tested	Engine type / class	Manufacturer	run down to radius	good for radius in mm	picture
1	Shay	PFM UNITED	380 mm / 15''	any ?
2	Harrington 4 - 6 - 0	PFM UNITED	400 mm / 15.7''	400
3	C 25 2 - 8 -0 D&RGW # 375	Westside	380 mm / 15''	400
4	2 - 8 - 0	Westside	380 mm / 15''	400
5	K 27 2 - 8 - 2 D&RGW ( Mudhenn )	PFM UNITED	380 mm / 15''	400
6	K 36 2 - 8 - 2 D&RGW	PFM UNITED	380 mm / 15''	400
7	2 - 6 - 6	PFM UNITED	380 mm / 15''	400
8	B	jap. product	< 380 mm / 15''	< 380
9	0 - 6 - 0	KEY	< 380 mm / 15''	< 380
10	2 - 8 - 6	CUSTOM BRASS	420 mm / 16.5''	> 420

and from the Hon3 group:

Large 2-8-2s (like K-36 and K-37)	18 inch radius, happier with 22
Med 2-8-2s (like K-28)	happy with 18
Blackstone K-27s	14 inch radius, look better and are happier with 18
big 2-8-0s (like C-25)	16 to 18 inches
small 2-8-0s (like C-16s and C&S)	12 to 15 inches, happier at 15
0-6-0s and 0-4-0s, shays, etc	really tight curves to the point they look like tinplate

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