steam loco question

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Yes there is a taper with the inside of the driver being slightly larger in
diameter than the outside.  Does that work?  Well, I did a little math last
night taking a 56" diameter driver on a 1000' radius curve through 180
degrees.  I won't do the math here but it turns out that the outside driver
would have to make almost exactly one more revolution than the inside
driver, or go about 14 feet further over better than 3000.  So what diameter
on the outside driver would do the trick?  56-1/4" !
 
Harry


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I won't repeat the answers given so far, which are all correct and well
explained, but there's two more factors, as it's 

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