Bruce, Actually, the length of the grade is implied by the statement that the car must spontaneously start and roll for at least one car length. The standard states 2.5% or LESS, and the implication

Mike, Harriman, not Bruceford… unless the car has moved? Regards Bruce Bruce F. Smith Auburn, AL https://www5.vetmed.auburn.edu/~smithbf/ "Some days you are the bug, some days

Nelson, Not to be picky, but that is not the way I read the standard. In fact, the car could be a “lead sled” on a grade of 1%, just so long as it starts rolling at or before the grade getting to

Bob Chaparro writes: "Some club respondents mentioned that lower percentages sometimes cause unintended car movements on seemingly “level’ yard tracks and sidings, which was a problem, of

Nelson Moyer writes: "The club to which I belong has standards for wheels, trucks, detection, couplers, weight,, rollability, and center of gravity." Just out of curiousity, what is the minimum

A few years ago my HO scale module club wanted to establishformal rolling stock standards so I survey a large number of fixed-base andmodule clubs to get the best practices from each. Based on

Armand Premo asked: "Getting back to "rollability". and trying to set a standard, what test or tests do individuals use?" Jon Miller replied: "Someone once made a moon shaped section of track and,

The club to which I belong has standards for wheels, trucks, detection, couplers, weight,, rollability, and center of gravity. Rollability

Someone once made a moon shaped section of track and, when a truck was place on it, you counted the times it went past center. This could be a machine for a standard but don't think it's really

 Well,well,well Mike.Bystandardization I mean personal standards or preferences if you will.Operational"Go or No Go".As new products become available I will try them, and only tonewly built

Andy Carson posts: >I don't understand your point, as you have shared this many times over the years. Tahoe trucks run very well, perhaps the best in the whole industry-EVER. I think over analyzing

Thank you to everybody for the online/offline suggestions. I really appreciated the suggestions. I will be giving them a try this weekend. Scott McDonald

Bill. You can buy the lids separately. I screw mine together into a cylinder that drops into my tackle box. The plastic tray is intended to store as well as organize the pans. As long as you keep

Although I've made the switch to using Kadee #58's on most of my new freight cars (except where specialty couplers are called for) , I haven't done the switch to code 88 wheelsets at all. I bought

Back before Tahoe Trucks became available (20 or so years ago), my friend had purchased a couple of hundred MDC frames and put semi-scale wheelsets in them. I inherited the cars and was having

Well...that attachment was stripped by Yahoo and isn't available even on the Yahoo website for our group. Fortunately, I cc'd Bill directly but if anyone else is interested, let me know. Jack

Bruce Smith says: "First, have a home brew." My sentiments exactly. "Second, don't worry!" More good advice. Armand says: "Bruce,We strive to standardize car weight and couplers yet with the

Bill... Attached is a photo of a Central Valley arch bar truck on a YV stock car I built about 30 years ago. In those days, the only 5' arch bar trucks available (as I recall) were the Central Valley

Denny’s efforts to objectively measure and optimize rollability are well-documented. I will say that the RESULT of such tuning is visible on his layout. It includes some grades, and many trains

correction John----- It's Pittsburg (no H) & Shawmut (1 T) Paul B.