Hi all, Who would that be? LGB It has been a very interesting few days, someone on a German forum asked is “the R3 radius really 1175mm?” This guy was doing an indoor layout and the geometry just didn’t jive. I reconstructed his track arrangement in CADrail and everything was just fine i.e. things fall into the 25mm geometry pattern. Then someone mentioned that LGB lists the diameter of their circles measured overall outside (outside of the ties); which is lunacy, but OK lets see Then I remembered that a few years back there was some funky measuring and calculation and things didn’t jive. So I always used the measurements that have been in the catalogue for decades and are molded into the curved segments. R2 = 765mm; R3 = 1175mm. Well neither is correct and once I take that into account … whooosh … there goes the complete very nicely calculated LGB track geometry. One will need more little pieces of equaliziation track than Dr. Carter has liver pills! Luckily the only LGB items I usually use for track planning are the turnouts.
If I was very sceptical regarding what LGB advertises … now I won’t believe a darn thing of theirs unless I check it! Oh, I hear the Ventilators revving up with the “There is enough give in that track”. Sure there is, give me a break! PS this “condition” also throws some interesting curves into the parallel track dimensions! Whoa!