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Good day everyone from the great state of Texas. My son and I have recently gotten into railroading. His grandfather found a small HO scale set of AHM train cars and a loco made in Yugoslavia in someone's attic or basement or something. It might be as old as the 1950s or '60s; I don't know. He gave it to his grandson to play with. We "upgraded" to the Rail Chief set from Bachmann and ordered a bunch of used track on ebay. We're still pretty new to the world's greatest hobby, but we're enjoying it and having fun.

I'll be asking a few questions about track layout geometry and whatnot. Thank you all in advance for the help!
 
kingnothing395 said:
Good day everyone from the great state of Texas. My son and I have recently gotten into railroading. His grandfather found a small HO scale set of AHM train cars and a loco made in Yugoslavia in someone's attic or basement or something. It might be as old as the 1950s or '60s; I don't know. He gave it to his grandson to play with. We "upgraded" to the Rail Chief set from Bachmann and ordered a bunch of used track on ebay. We're still pretty new to the world's greatest hobby, but we're enjoying it and having fun.

I'll be asking a few questions about track layout geometry and whatnot. Thank you all in advance for the help!
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Welcome! My first locomotive was a AHM Sante Fe - F unit. I got it for a birthday present, must have been 1969 or so. Several breaks in time, and currently building my 4th layout.

Dave LASM
 
kingnothing395 said:
Good day everyone from the great state of Texas. My son and I have recently gotten into railroading. His grandfather found a small HO scale set of AHM train cars and a loco made in Yugoslavia in someone's attic or basement or something. It might be as old as the 1950s or '60s; I don't know. He gave it to his grandson to play with. We "upgraded" to the Rail Chief set from Bachmann and ordered a bunch of used track on ebay. We're still pretty new to the world's greatest hobby, but we're enjoying it and having fun.

I'll be asking a few questions about track layout geometry and whatnot. Thank you all in advance for the help!
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This one?
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Which used track did you buy? Track like the old 1960's (snap track) or track like the ones in the set (EZ-Track)?

Basically the curves are going to be 18" radius each standard piece is 30 degrees, so it takes 3 curve tracks to make a 90 degree curve and 12 for a full circle. They also make 1/2 curves and 1/3 curves.
 
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