Author Topic: Can trains turn this sharp?  (Read 1674 times)

So I'm going to a friend's house. He lives close to a subway station. I looked at the map to see the fastest combination and I saw this.



According to the legend/scale, this 90°-90° turn is done in 50m2

Can trains actually turn that sharp? Wouldn't it derail?

no ya big goober. the track VEERS until it's facing whatever direction. the map is just a quick representation

Thanks for enlightening this dilema for me. You're such a hero.


why don't you take it and find out

I have a feeling Pie Crust knows this.
« Last Edit: February 29, 2016, 10:29:20 AM by Lord Tony® »

I have a feeling Pie Crust knows this and he just likes creating topics like these for no reason.
and I have a feeling you should stop

I just took it and it indeed is a very sharpass turn. Engineers, explain why.

Sharpass turn would be 90 degrees.


I just took it and it indeed is a very sharpass turn. Engineers, explain why.
what I'm guessing is that the train is made of like, 300 very short carriages or something to make a very sharpass turn

which btw is not 90, that's sounds impossible

It didn't feel like a 90° that you'd feel on a bus. It felt more like 45° but without slowing down. Shouldn't it have derailed? It was going pretty fast.

And the carts are shorter than those of the other lines but still of considerable length.

It's common knowledgr why it didn't derail. Trains also have rotating wheels now that aren't fixed like trains from the 1900s.


hey I'm sitting on an infinite vault of accessible human knowledge, better spam Blockland for the answers
I was looking at this and saw the minimum angle being 48 degrees

then I realised we can't answer this without op giving us photos