87 baseboards in 15 minutes

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on30gn15

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While figuring out how many 720 meter square baseboards (72 squares of 10 meters on a side) would be needed to have 10 miles between towns, decided to see how many baseboards would be needed to run an hour at high speed train rate of 250kph, 150mph.

Metrics all the way through would make that math easier.
1000 meters in a kilometer.
250kph = 250,000 meters/hour
250,000 meters/hour divided by 720 meter baseboards =

Equals
347 baseboards an hour :eek:

That's just too big to wrap the mind around at this time of the morning,
so let's break it down to 15 minute blocks, there are 4 of those in an hour.
347/4=

Equals
86.75 baseboards per 15 minutes

Which for all practical purposes is 87 baseboards in 15 minutes. Wow!

Okay, as for the 10 miles.
Mile is roughly 1.6 km, 1600 meters.

So, 16,000 meters in 10 miles.
16,000 meters divided by 720 meter baseboards=
22.2 baseboards, eh, call it 22 even.

Dang, my brain was doing this at 7am?
Will miracles never end!
:hehe:
 
Your maths is missing one very important variable. In the real world track does not always go in straight lines; it curves so with this in mind the length of track per baseboard in not a constant. So 100 miles of real looking track with bends and all is not going to take as many baseboards as a silly 100 mile straight track layout.

Belkenn:hehe:
 
belkenn said:
In the real world track does not always go in straight lines;
Click to expand...
However, if one is modeling Kansas . . .

One point of this thread is just a reminder of what encounters in Trainz when modeling actual distances.

Like me, some people may not initially realize the scale of things when starting out.

And several weeks back there was a question about routes for driving superfast Bullet Trains, TGV, Shinkansen, and all that kind of stuff.
A route which offers any kind of time to drive the thing at its potential speeds would have to be immense.
 
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