https://blog.model-train-help.com/2020/12/grading-industry-spur.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=grading-industry-spur Model railroads and model trains Wed, 16 Dec 2020 12:37:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://blog.model-train-help.com/2020/12/grading-industry-spur.html#comment-42742 Wed, 16 Dec 2020 12:37:05 +0000 http://blog.model-train-help.com/?p=5899#comment-42742 They are correct, if the angle of connection between cars becomes to severe, the couplers will ride apart. The trick is where the sloping track and the benchwork level track meet, I feel this decending slope should be no more severe than 2 %.
You might have to decend at a faster slope and then ease up to 2 percent so as to not decouple.

]]> https://blog.model-train-help.com/2020/12/grading-industry-spur.html#comment-42713 Wed, 16 Dec 2020 01:53:46 +0000 http://blog.model-train-help.com/?p=5899#comment-42713 Due to space constraints between the main and yard track I have done this transition in a foot with success. As mentioned the important step is assuring the top and bottom transitions are smooth and not abrupt.

]]> https://blog.model-train-help.com/2020/12/grading-industry-spur.html#comment-42707 Wed, 16 Dec 2020 01:11:48 +0000 http://blog.model-train-help.com/?p=5899#comment-42707 18 inches should be okay. Be careful to make the transitions at the top and bottom of the slope smooth. Abrupt transitions between level and sloped track is where coupler problems happen.

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