I need a short length of trackage to test my nearly-ready spine car on. A shop I get stuff mail order from has some Marklin track in stock in 1st radius, 2nd radius and 3rd radius. Anyone know what these radii are, and which should I use to test the car? It really needs to be able to go around curves
* bump * Just read another topic about using spare N scale track and re gauging one rail. As I have a lot of spare N track, I will do this, but still need to know what radius I should test the car on. In other words, what is the usual minimum radius in Z?
They have under 5" radius track out there. My Centerbeam kits have problems with anything much under 9" radius (because of the light weight) if you run a train of more than 6 of them, so I try to run them on the outside line which is 10" radius. I would just see how far you can push them, and recommend the larger radius as minimum. Marklin radius are listed as 145mm, 195mm, and 220mm. -Robert
