going a mile...

pauly · Post by **pauly** » Sun Dec 27, 2009 1:41 am

Iv been thinking, how many times I would have to run 1 of my steamers round a loop of R1 LGB to simulate a mile of operational running.

anyone here got a full loop of R1 to calculate with?

minimans · Post by **minimans** » Sun Dec 27, 2009 8:17 pm

5280 / 12.56600 = 420.181442

MDLR · Post by **MDLR** » Sun Dec 27, 2009 8:42 pm

minimans wrote:5280 / 12.56600 = 420.181442

.............. by which time, you'd be hopelessly dizzy!

PCLR · Post by **PCLR** » Sun Dec 27, 2009 8:50 pm

MDLR wrote:
minimans wrote:5280 / 12.56600 = 420.181442
.............. by which time, you'd be hopelessly dizzy!

to right

mhlr · Post by **mhlr** » Sun Dec 27, 2009 9:15 pm

And the wheels on one side of the loco will be a lot smaller than the other side

MDLR · Post by **MDLR** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 5:07 pm

Can I bring my Mamod??

mhlr · Post by **mhlr** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 6:40 pm

Can I bring my Edrig with the Anti-Mamod device fitted on the front?

MDLR · Post by **MDLR** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 6:50 pm

You'll never catch me!

DolwyddelanLightRail · Post by **DolwyddelanLightRail** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 8:57 pm

I agree with you there MDLR!, MHLR, Ben~Ben doesn't have a chance of catching up with an untamed runaway mamod!

PCLR · Post by **PCLR** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 9:00 pm

wanan beat!!

DLRdan · Post by **DLRdan** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 9:52 pm

Not sure if this will help Paul, but with a few rough calculations done with my locos i worked out that in half an hour they will go about half a mile. This does of corse depend on speed and run time but i doubt it wil be far off and it was only rough

made-in-england · Post by **made-in-england** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 11:09 pm

Two laps of our track is about a scale mile....

mhlr · Post by **mhlr** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 11:10 pm

made-in-england wrote:Two laps of our track is about a scale mile....

They're talking about a 12 inches to the foot scale mile here mate. 1 lap of my railway is about 0.6 of a 16mm scale mile...

made-in-england · Post by **made-in-england** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 11:11 pm

ah ok.. ill shut up sit back and watch the fights continue

*skips into the distance*

pauly · Post by **pauly** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 11:12 pm

I might invest in some track with a larger radius to try and minimilise the wear on the wheels because as you all probably know going round a corner is the hardest thing a locomotive can do and doing it for a mile would probably destroy my wheels on R1.

I am seriously looking into this because I think it would just be interesting to do and be able to say that 1 of my engines did a total mile in 1 session.

mhlr · Post by **mhlr** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 11:15 pm

If you want to even out the wear on the wheels, you'd probably be best going with a figure of 8 track then so you do the same amount of left and right!

pauly · Post by **pauly** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 11:17 pm

mhlr wrote:If you want to even out the wear on the wheels, you'd probably be best going with a figure of 8 track then so you do the same amount of left and right!

good point!

LGB crossover piece cost a bomb though.
it would be cheaper to just have the wheels replaced afterwards

DLRdan · Post by **DLRdan** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 11:23 am

Paul if you just want to run a mile then measure the length of your track as it wouldn't have to go round as many times. Also the amount of wear on the wheels when covering a mile is non exsistant, remembering my Bertie has done about 180 miles and is only just starting to show wear in the wheels.

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