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Re: Switching yards that actually work
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 14 Nov 2002 23:14:14 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, William R. Ward writes:
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> I've been dabbling with track designer, making switching yards. The
> latest thread on diagonal track layouts has given me some more tricks
> to get it to actually line up at the beginning and end with 8- or
> 16-stud intervals.
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> The following issues make it hard to design a reasonable switching
> yard:
> * Diagonal tracks are hard to line up
> * ...Especially when a switch is used to produce the diagonal
> * ...Especially when you want to make it possible to enter AND exit
> the yard from the mainline...
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> So here is the trick I figured out...
<snip the very good text-list description>
> Does this make sense to you? Any comments?
Bill,
You got me curious. I couldn't visualize the text description, so I built
it up in Track Designer. Thanks for the very good construction description.
Here's what I ended up with following your description. I hope I got it
correct.
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jamathis/Trains/TrainsOther/TrainLayouts/WilliamWardSwchYard/ward_switchyard.gif
later,
James Mathis
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 | | Re: Switching yards that actually work
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| Sorry to disappoint you, but you can't connect switches like that. There has to be 1 piece of track between the switches, try it in real life, and wheep... Klaas H. Meijaard (...) (22 years ago, 15-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Switching yards that actually work
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| I've been dabbling with track designer, making switching yards. The latest thread on diagonal track layouts has given me some more tricks to get it to actually line up at the beginning and end with 8- or 16-stud intervals. The following issues make (...) (22 years ago, 14-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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