Roodog
New Member
Hey everyone.
Call me a complete newbie as I haven't run a loco since around 1978 when I was a wee lad of 10. Hitting the big 40 in a month so I decided to get back into things...better late than never again!
I have a new Bachmann Spectrum 4-8-2 and wonder which track size to use. I have some code 100 flextrack to work out some layout pre-planning but of course it is HUGE in scale. That is all my LHS carries.
I wonder if there are any issues with my loco running on code 83, or even 70. Looking at Micro-Engineering specifically in code 83. I am planning a layout that is '30's-era steam hauling passenger for now, with the possibility of running some industry later on a seperate steam loco. I have it planned for 30" radius or larger, and no more than 2% grade. The Bachmann should have no issues with that, maybe at most pulling 5 cars.
What concerns me is the flange of the wheels- will they hit a tie? How much play side-to-side would this loco have at that code? Is that even an issue?
Call me a complete newbie as I haven't run a loco since around 1978 when I was a wee lad of 10. Hitting the big 40 in a month so I decided to get back into things...better late than never again!
I have a new Bachmann Spectrum 4-8-2 and wonder which track size to use. I have some code 100 flextrack to work out some layout pre-planning but of course it is HUGE in scale. That is all my LHS carries.
I wonder if there are any issues with my loco running on code 83, or even 70. Looking at Micro-Engineering specifically in code 83. I am planning a layout that is '30's-era steam hauling passenger for now, with the possibility of running some industry later on a seperate steam loco. I have it planned for 30" radius or larger, and no more than 2% grade. The Bachmann should have no issues with that, maybe at most pulling 5 cars.
What concerns me is the flange of the wheels- will they hit a tie? How much play side-to-side would this loco have at that code? Is that even an issue?
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