Locomotives Passing At Speed.

[Mountain]

We often think that our models need to go slow to look realistic but do they?

https://youtu.be/43QN2DXFZso

[End2end]

That's about the speed of my 0-4-0's.
Thanks
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[Ex-Pat]

I bet some of the photographers were sweating with that Unit potentially in the way!

[Bigmet]

We often think that our models need to go slow to look realistic but do they? ...

No way! I have the space for a 'full line speed' rated section of the ECML, and the 'four track' allows the contrast in speeds to be seen between Doncaster's pacifics on the 'racetrack', swiftly overtaking the unfitted freight plodding along on the approach to a sustained downgrade leading to the freight terminus at Ferme Park. You musn't take 1200 tons unfitted down that at any great speed...

[Mountain]

We often think that our models need to go slow to look realistic but do they? ...

You musn't take 1200 tons unfitted down that at any great speed...

From stories that I have heard from older drivers and guards with loose coupled trains running away from them when they were not able to stop to pin the brakes down it has been known!

[Bigmet]

Even on model railways. Well arranged smaller locos that will slowly move lengthy trains of free running stock on level track, can prove incapable of stopping that train when on a gradient.

Hornby's neat little J15 will easily move about 60 of my wagons (mix of RTR and kit built) on level track, but once the loco and about the first 40 wagons are on the 1 in 80 downgrade, they are not stopping again until the loco is some distance back on level track. The J15 and the other small locos on the layout are significantly restricted in the load they can take out on the running lines, proportionate to their power class.

[Raboliot]

You really need a very high speed train ? Check this out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrkpOlB-zOU&list=RDCMUC8LH7xMAyCSqpClAvTHwJRw&index=3

[Mountain]

Yes. That one is rather like the Ffestiniog version that I have seen.

[Byegad]

Yes, I recently worked out the times for different scale speeds around my 17' run in N gauge. Express locos on passenger trains should be lapping in between 20 and 30 seconds, giving scale speeds between 90 and 60mph.That looks seriously quick! Yes the curves are very tight and so should be taken slowly, if at all by these locos. All I can say is Rule1.