Greg@mnrr
Section Hand
I was reading the latest issue of the NMRA Magazine where an author wrote about weathering his fleet of Walther's ore cars and when running the ore car trains on his layout the locomotive engineers observed a 25 mph spreed restriction. On the CM&N I like running a slow ore trains since the cars are short in length, heavier with the Chooch ore loads that are covered with Woodland Scenic's ore and the appearance of the train is better when running slower. Before reading this article, I never thought about a specific speed restriction for ore trains, but did run ore trains slower than a normal freight. Now they will run no faster than 25 mph.
I do have speed restrictions in the Pine River yard limits since the track entering the yard has a sharp, minium radius curve and locomotive power is limited to four axle switchers. The area in the Rocky Junction also has a speed restriction since this is where the track diverts to the future freight yard and on to the Pine River yard. Trains are required to slow entering and traveling through the Omro siding area as well. These restrictions are shown on a framed placard on the pine paneling below the layout's facsia.
Speed restrictions also increase the time it takes for a train to travel the relatively short mainline of the CM&N railroad.
Do you have specific speed restrictions on your layout and is there a particular reason for the restrictions?
Thanks for your input.
Greg
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These ore cars started out as undecorated, black Roundhouse ore cars. Repair patches were added and the cars were weathered using powders. Like all ore cars in service on the CM&N, they have Chooch loads covered with Woodland Scenic's ore, KD couples and metal wheels. -Greg
I do have speed restrictions in the Pine River yard limits since the track entering the yard has a sharp, minium radius curve and locomotive power is limited to four axle switchers. The area in the Rocky Junction also has a speed restriction since this is where the track diverts to the future freight yard and on to the Pine River yard. Trains are required to slow entering and traveling through the Omro siding area as well. These restrictions are shown on a framed placard on the pine paneling below the layout's facsia.
Speed restrictions also increase the time it takes for a train to travel the relatively short mainline of the CM&N railroad.
Do you have specific speed restrictions on your layout and is there a particular reason for the restrictions?
Thanks for your input.
Greg
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These ore cars started out as undecorated, black Roundhouse ore cars. Repair patches were added and the cars were weathered using powders. Like all ore cars in service on the CM&N, they have Chooch loads covered with Woodland Scenic's ore, KD couples and metal wheels. -Greg
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