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This is absolutely stunning!! Not just the layout, but the pictures too. How on earth did you get your photo's to look so damn good? Most look like raytrace (And that's meant as a compliment here!). I'd love to see more pics of the turntable. Even (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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(...) It's complex but not undoable. Several people/orgs have done it. The "old" (1) "main" (2) GMLTC layout had a turntable as well. Mindstorms actuated/animated. I believe the indubitable J1(3) has expounded on how it worked. It was pretty nifty (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Larry, thanks for the pointers. I just got trains for the first time this December and this coupled with talking to Jim Rosikiewicz about gearing problems for his turntable at the last GardenSLUG meeting has had me thinking about how to do (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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Several people have cut track in half and use the cut side toward the gap. For example for a turn table you'd use 1 cut track (two 1/2's) for the turn table itself and 1 cut track (two 1/2's) for every two radial sidings. However Kim Toll, another (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Err, I thought you got your first train set back in June at Brickfest :-) FUT lugnet.fun (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.fun)
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(...) last (...) I don't think it counts until you have your first motor/engine and some track. :-) Besides, I swapped those useless train parts into a J-box along the way some time. :-( Chris (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.fun)
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