If I go back in time to an earlier 009 layout the optimum curve was eight and a bit inches. This being the curve on the wall on Wood End. The stock on this was fairly small excepting a pair of cut-down VoR coaches. The above however is a WHR coach built for the last book and which uses the same VoR kit, but in its full length. The question hanging was would it run happily around a standard Peco 9" radius setrack curve? Quite a while ago I grabbed an off-cut of chipboard and badly laid an oval with a point on it in N gauge track to replicate the worst possible situation, that is, a screaming 7" curve into a point. The thinking being that if a piece of stock will cope with this, then it should cope with anything else.
Using a van as the push-along loco replacement to simulate towing all went well. OK I had ground the side frames down to facilitate a little more swing on the bogie, but that's what you do.
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