Joe F:
One thing you can do with DCC to enforce scale speed in
the yard is set the top speed of the yard goat to 35 mph or so. (If
you are running DC, you can also dial down the voltage avail-
able to yard blocks). I’ve had yard operators at my Siskiyou Line
op sessions who seem to get impatient and will “crank it up”
when nobody’s looking, to save time. The cure is to adjust the
yard goat’s speed curve, but watch out. If the hotshot yard guy
can find another loco he can commandeer for switching that
has a more normal speed curve, he’ll do it!
If you have a layout with 50-foot cars, you can use the 3-second
rule to get a good approximation of speed. Pick a stationary point
along the track, count “1001, 1002, 1003” and take note of how
many 50-foot cars pass the point. Each car represents roughly 10
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3. Scale speed table. Artarms
