Locomotives: 4 axle Diesels and 2x 6 Axel SD40-2 locomotives I live in Sweden and therefore have no experience of US railroading and to ad to this I also do not have much space to build on, namely I only have my bedroom thats only is 15x10Ft.Īnd I have made the beginners mistake to chose a to big scale (H0) for my available space.īecause of this I have chosen an around the wall style design with a staging yard on a second level and I have chosen to model a small shortline somewhere in the eastern US. The Waukesha Sub & WSOR Northern Sub N Scale layouts I am constructing will have 4 helicies (yes thats the plural of Helix) on the layout.I'm new to this wonder full hobby and are about to start my first layout. I hope this helps you add your perfect helix to your layout. here its 10,051.25mm which is over 10m(33′) of flex track in a small 3.5 turn helix. to quickly see how much track is swollowed up by the helix double click on it and you will see at the bottom of the screen the track length. Most of us wouldn’t be able to give up over 40 sqft in our train room for this monster Helix although in HO thats quite common.Īnyway back to the helix click ok and you will have your helix on your plan.
With a 914mm or 3′ radius which is going to result in a helix about 6’6″ wide you would only have a 1.1% grade. Once you have a curve you can then open the helix wizard as we did previously, make sure the track is still selected.Įnter your start and end heights, in this example 225mm (approx 9″)Īs you can see I have saved time here and adjusted the turns to 3.5 which would have a slope % of 2.2% its not ideal but most N scale locomtives will run quite happily up that grade with a train. Then enter the radius, I am goint to use 457mm or 18″ in this example. The ‘Set flex curve wizard’ will pop up in N scale you can enter 90 as the angle (the max is 90) but in other larger scales you may need to use a smaller angle, maybe 45 degrees.
Once you have your flex track select it and then click on Curve flex … on the tool bar. In this example peco code 55 but the principle is pretty much the same with any type of flex or scale. Start by selecting the type of flex track you want to use. This is a short follow on from my post on Tuesday and this will just cover the same principles but focussing on using flex track for your helix.
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