One of the benefits of having some great and talented friends, is that you occasionally get the opportunity to utilize some of their fantastic builds.
Bruce and Jean made the trip out to our Oct 2015 Ops session… I asked if he would be gracious enough to bring along his ““Dynometer”” car, so I could get some idea of how much trackage is on the Bluestone Southern railroad…
One of the first questions I always get is ““how many feet of track do you have out???””… I never really counted, so I had no idea, anything I stated would have just been a guesstimate…
Bruce ran a couple of different legs on the railroad, as I wanted to get an idea as to the length of each train… The following is basically what he came up with:
Bluefield to Memphis runs trackage that is 314 ft in length… 1/20 scale = 1.21 miles… 1/29th scale = 1.7 miles…
Evansville to Bluefield runs trackage that is 324 ft in length… 1/20 scale = 1.25 miles… 1/29th scale = 1.78 miles…
Memphis to Evansville runs 96 ft… 1/20th scale = .37 miles 1/29th scale = .52 miles
Evansville to Addieville runs a total of 927.6 ft… 1/20 scale = 3.57 miles… 1/29th scale = 5.09 miles
Evansville to the current end of tracks is 990 ft… 1/20th scale 3.81 miles… 1/29th scale = 6.44 miles…
Bruce did all the computations which I am assuming is correct…
These measurements are only of a mainline run… They don’t include tracks for sidings, double track, yards and the such…
So, for all those that have asked, or are curious, there it is, in it’s current state…
