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This here is a strange one.
It's what appears to have been the track from an Atlas set. It's 6 curves, a terminal straight and a rerailer-crossing sections. The oddity?
It's 12" radius curves.
That's right. 12 inch radius curves, by Atlas. It's not some knockoff either; it matches all my other Atlas track and has the same feel and hardness of Atlas' plastic. So when did Atlas make 12" radius curves, how come they don't offer it or even talk about it (ever) in publications or MR articles.
Most importantly, how can I use it if I've only got 6 sections? I'm thinking of a traction railway for my dorm and these would make a fine size for a sectional curve, but perhaps this is too special to use?
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Posted - November 14 2013 : 12:07:27 PM
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My AOTW:
A bunch of HO cars and trucks I picked up this week in the purchase of 2 of 3 lots of HO trains.
Sean
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Posted - November 14 2013 : 12:08:32 PM
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Found a complete cattle car and depot set, not shown very well are the cattle, they're in the plastic bag.
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - November 14 2013 : 12:55:20 PM
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quote:This here is a strange one.
It's what appears to have been the track from an Atlas set. It's 6 curves, a terminal straight and a rerailer-crossing sections. The oddity?
It's 12" radius curves.
That's right. 12 inch radius curves, by Atlas. It's not some knockoff either; it matches all my other Atlas track and has the same feel and hardness of Atlas' plastic. So when did Atlas make 12" radius curves, how come they don't offer it or even talk about it (ever) in publications or MR articles.
Most importantly, how can I use it if I've only got 6 sections? I'm thinking of a traction railway for my dorm and these would make a fine size for a sectional curve, but perhaps this is too special to use?
Originally posted by Islanderh93Â -Â November 14 2013Â :Â 12:05:31 AM
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You sure that's 12 inch radius? And not 15? I know that Atlas made and still makes 15 inch radius curves, and the older stuff, could have the "5" looking like a "2".....I am assuming this is HO scale not N scale as the N scale stuff is 11 inch radius.
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Posted - November 14 2013 : 3:53:22 PM
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quote:My AOTW:
A bunch of HO cars and trucks I picked up this week in the purchase of 2 of 3 lots of HO trains.
Originally posted by Mustangs_n_Trains - November 14 2013 : 12:07:27 PM
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VWs! gimmie!
I think the tow truck is a Bachmann & looks to come from the Disaster Crossing set
Walt - I has one of those & quite a few Durango cattle cars but a few are missing the doors! 
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Posted - November 14 2013 : 4:15:45 PM
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A couple packs of people...
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Posted - November 14 2013 : 5:23:30 PM
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Yep it is 12 inch Atlas track.
Can't find anything on it.
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Posted - November 14 2013 : 7:25:17 PM
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| hi guys a nice lot of aotw this week,ken
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Posted - November 14 2013 : 9:17:05 PM
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John,
That's insane! I can not imagine what was sold to have ran on something so tight in radius! I mean really, a Gandy Dancer? Possible the DeWitt Clinton? And the John Bull but.. anything else? That would LOOK right?
WOW!
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Posted - November 14 2013 : 10:33:12 PM
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Looks good? Overhang? OVERHANG!?!
Tell it to the chief engineer, but this curve's lookin' pretty darn sharp!
/tyco/forum/uploaded/Islanderh93/20131114220757_IMGP1984.JPG /tyco/forum/uploaded/Islanderh93/20131114220830_IMGP1982.JPG
That is a 40' athearn boxcar and a 50' athearn gondola (next week's cars of the week). They do couple together, and they do have adequate clearance in their underbodies to take an even sharper curve. You have to realize the kind of things 40' cars could do...
For instance in this picture; one of the famous "Bronx River Pocket Terminals".
http://www.bronx-terminal.com/wp-content/uploads/bronxxlarge.jpg
EM-1, I'm absolutely sure it's standard HO scale 1:89 (with the track that's really 5' gauge). It's most certainly not a 15" radius curve; I measured it with 2 rulers and you can clearly see that's a 2 not a 5. It's factory stock, and I've never seen it before either. In all my reading, internet searches, dumpster diving and flea-marketing, I've never seen any 12" radius curves. I mean, I've seen sharp curves like that for Markilin and with little junk sets.
Junk sets... wait a second... who's that guy who posted a 3 car shortie set a few months ago? There was a set with standard HO track that looked like it was this kind of tiny radius. Could that be it?
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Posted - November 15 2013 : 3:16:30 PM
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Eldon trains had tight radius track. Who made it?
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Posted - November 15 2013 : 8:18:28 PM
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| That small radius track could be fun to play with.
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Posted - November 16 2013 : 02:54:28 AM
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My AOTW are 2 Hopper Car Unloading Sets . A red box and brown box. These are recent swap meet purchases. Both boxes are rough but seem to be complete and unused. Don't have the coal loads .  
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Posted - November 16 2013 : 09:11:29 AM
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quote:Don't have the coal loads .
Originally posted by skimpy tone 44Â -Â November 16 2013Â :Â 02:54:28 AM[/right] [/i]
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Whatever load you use should have a fairly rounded-shaped particle. I've tried these with coal I crushed, myself. It jammed the hopper doors open. There used to be a product called "egg coal" that worked reasonably well, but I haven't seen that in a while and it might be discontinued. Anyway, if you try something and the doors don't close when you leave the dump track, the cars aren't defective. Just try another, less gritty, kind of load.
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Posted - November 16 2013 : 8:39:57 PM
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| Hey Tony, What length of track do you need to accomplish the grade to that coal trestle? That's pretty cool. Thanks. Barry
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Posted - November 17 2013 : 05:29:44 AM
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Hi Barry,
The sets use 2 - 9 inch track then a 6 inch actuator track and a 9 inch track. What is interesting is that the red box set uses a 9 inch concave, a 9 inch convex , a 6 inch actuator ,then a 9 inch straight all made by ATLAS. The brown box uses 3 -9 inch straight track by TYCO and a 6 inch actuator track by ATLAS.
Thanks Tony
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Posted - November 17 2013 : 1:36:16 PM
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| Hey Tony, What is the "concave" and "convex" track; I'm ignorant about that.
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Posted - November 17 2013 : 2:11:33 PM
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I figured it out.
The track must be from an Eldon "Little Big Train" setup.
They had HO track with sharp curves for HO trains that were as wide as they were long. For more information, search for it on this forum as someone had posted about that earlier.
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Posted - November 19 2013 : 05:44:06 AM
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Hi Barry,
Have a close look at the photos I took of the red box and brown box instructions sheets. You can see in the red box instructions that the first track is concave and the second is convex. The actual tracks in that set are bent .
Thanks Tony
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Posted - November 20 2013 : 12:45:58 AM
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| Ah . . . I'd like to see that hopper set in operation. Kind of like a roller coaster for the hopper car, hey?
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