First outdoor railway
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playmofire
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Welcome from the North Yorkshire coast.
railaddict
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Warm welcome to the forum, Paul!
maxi-model
UK/US/ROW steam narrow gauge railways 1:1
Welcome Paul. You can't have too many locos, or rolling stock and structcturs and shrubs for that matter. Enjoy the journey ! Max
Northsider
Modelling the Northern half of the Isle of Man
Welcome to the Forum, Paul! You may find that, although your initial interest is in locomotives, it grows to encompass other things, and that a simple circle of track increases into much more, over time
Canyon City
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Welcome to the forum, Paul! Yes, you can never have enough vehicles.
Thanks very much for the welcome everyone 
- some great pics & advice I'm really in the early days of designing a layout and current thoughts are that it will have an elevated section. That does of course mean an incline and so my first question is what is a manageable incline for G scale? I guess it depends on many things including the number of drive wheels on the loco, number of things to be pulled and whether the track is dry etc. s there a general rule? Thanks.
- some great pics & advice I'm really in the early days of designing a layout and current thoughts are that it will have an elevated section. That does of course mean an incline and so my first question is what is a manageable incline for G scale? I guess it depends on many things including the number of drive wheels on the loco, number of things to be pulled and whether the track is dry etc. s there a general rule? Thanks.
Zerogee
Clencher's Bogleman
A belated welcome, Paul!
The question of inclines is always a tricky one... I guess the golden rule is try to keep them as shallow as possible, although G scale stuff is actually quite forgiving - I've seen LGB locos tackle some quite ludicrous gradients! My advice (for what it's worth) is to aim for something around 1-in-40 to 1-in-30 if you can, but even 1-in-20 can be got away with if you have to. I have seen much steeper than that, but the more extreme then the more wear you'll be putting on drive gears, motors etc.
As you've surmised, you may need to keep your trains short if your gradients are severe!
Jon.
All advice freely offered, and worth exactly what you pay for it!
The question of inclines is always a tricky one... I guess the golden rule is try to keep them as shallow as possible, although G scale stuff is actually quite forgiving - I've seen LGB locos tackle some quite ludicrous gradients! My advice (for what it's worth) is to aim for something around 1-in-40 to 1-in-30 if you can, but even 1-in-20 can be got away with if you have to. I have seen much steeper than that, but the more extreme then the more wear you'll be putting on drive gears, motors etc.
As you've surmised, you may need to keep your trains short if your gradients are severe!
Jon.
All advice freely offered, and worth exactly what you pay for it!
