Good Morning Group. 27° and sunny this morning with frost.
Spent some time bottom feeding for closeout bargains yesterday, and managed to pick up some DC / DCC Ready Reading power at 50% off List, along with a few freight cars at pretty much a "normal" discount price. Then I got a phone call from Trainworld, advising that my long delayed B&O E9 - E8m pair for the Capitol Limited were in. They will be here by Tuesday. The rest of the stuff will show sometime during the next week.
I have enough cork roadbed and flex to get started, I need to concentrate on the additional benchwork first.
Does anyone know what the curvature equivalent of a #5 switch is? I know that the Atlas #4.5 curvature equivalent is 22" radius, and that a #6 switch has a curve equivalent of around 42" radius, (John Armstrong), but I cannot find the formula for making the determination.
On my new layout, the Ford Plant Peninsula is problematic, in that on the prototype, curve radius was tight, but in the model world, the Plant remains open after 1959, and needs to handle high cubes and multi-levels, or as with the prototype, the plant site morphs into a multi use industrial park, and container port. There is limited space available for the necessary trackage, and I need to get it right the first time.
Credit to the Hagley Museum in Wilmington, DE for the above photos.