Model Railroad Track Laying Tips Curves Easements and Superelevation

Model railroad track laying tips: curves, easements, and superelevation. Do you want to know how to get great looking, smooth running curves on you model railroad track? In this segment I show you how I layout easements to transition from straight tangent track into fixed radius curves. I also show how I superelevate curves to give them a more smooth, natural appearance when trains run through them.

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Contents
0:00 Intro
1:50 Why Easements?
3:40 Circles vs Spirals
7:07 Laying out Curves
10:38 The Easement Formula Pt 1
12:50 Drawing the Curve
14:40 The Easement Formula Pt 2
16:00 Drawing the Easement
20:25 Why Superelevation?
23:45 Easy Superelevation
30:50 Laying Track on Curves
34:15 The Science of Curves--AREMA
35:03 Closing

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