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Subject:	Re: SuperTrain 2001 layout - Mountain Switching
Newsgroups:	lugnet.org.ca.nalug, lugnet.trains
Date:	Fri, 5 Jan 2001 20:51:33 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.nalug, James Brown writes: > Hmm. I don't think we can pull off a 15 footer, quite. > Quick question: How *wide* are our tables? Two feet by eight feet (or 6 or 4, but what point is a 2'x4' table?) > One way of getting a switching yard with fairly close parallel tracks > is in one of the layout ideas I had... For the track designer impaired, here's what he's talking about... http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=26098 It's nice, but it still doesn't get the tracks any closer together than the standard switch width. Nice and organized though. :-) SRC StRuCtures

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		Re: SuperTrain 2001 layout - Mountain Switching
(...) ? Why do you want the spurs so close together? If there's one thing we aren't short of, it's space. Stick with the geometry. Even a space-eating ladder-style yard works just fine. James (23 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug, lugnet.trains)

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		Re: SuperTrain 2001 layout - Mountain Switching
(...) Hmm. I don't think we can pull off a 15 footer, quite. Quick question: How wide are our tables? I've been thinking that they're 30", standard banquet table width, but I seem to recall you saying "2 feet" somewhere... (...) One way of getting (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug, lugnet.trains)

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