 | | Re: SuperTrain 2001 layout - Dual main lines?
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| In lugnet.org.ca.nalug, Steve Chapple writes: <snip> Steve, Can you bring some hardcopy layouts on Saturday, with some of the different ideas you've had? I'll confess, sporadic opportunity for Lugnet-ing this week, and a lot of ideas getting tossed (...) (26 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
| | |  | | Re: Show prep on Jan 13 (was Re: SuperTrain 2001 - I'll be there)
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| (...) Can do. Am doing, in fact. (...) no hacksaw, no mitre box. 1 drill, 1 jigsaw. (...) For now, I think leave them at your parents as long as they've got the room. (and don't mind!) (...) Yah, probably a good idea. I'm not sure if we want to (...) (26 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
| | |  | | Re: SuperTrain 2001 layout - Dual main lines?
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| (...) I've already spent considerable time pondering this problem, but I haven't found a solution I liked. If I were to add a table in the middle and shuffle/squeeze the track on both sides to accommodate a fourth "main" line as you suggest, there's (...) (26 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug, lugnet.trains)
| | |  | | Re: SuperTrain 2001 layout - Mountain Switching
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| I cut some of my switches with very satisfying result. I have pictures and will scan them one of these days. Eric (26 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug, lugnet.trains)
| | |  | | Re: SuperTrain 2001 layout - Switching Yard
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| (...) Yup. A 60' layout is going to look pretty empty with only 1 train. I like (John's?) suggestion for doing 2 loops. (...) Cool. The more stuff we've got, the better. (...) I've got 13 of the longest connector, and a smattering of the smallest 2 (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug, lugnet.trains)
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