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(...) From what I've seen, they want fairly large isles - a good idea IMO. (...) "The optimist" doesn't want to get us in over our heads either. ;-) I heard back this morning, and it appears we may be able to get the "best of both worlds". The (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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| | Re: SuperTrain 2001 layout - Mountain
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(...) Hmm. I musta been out of the room at the time... If we're dispensing with the idea of the bridge going over anything, why not just run 3 continuous loops? (or in the case of an 'open C', 2 loops?) James (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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| | Re: SuperTrain 2001 layout - Mountain
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(...) That's where the four tracks come from. The way Steve drew it the other night, the main loop crossed over itself on the bridge, which of course implies that it can't be "water" under the bridge. (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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| | Re: SuperTrain 2001 layout - Mountain
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(...) I ran across another problem if we have an 'open C' style of layout - we need another bridge. The loop containing your arch can't come back around if our layout is open behind. James (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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| | Re: SuperTrain 2001 layout - Mountain layout
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(...) Hmm. Well, two and a half, but yeah, it's not a 4-sided layout location. There's an easy solution, but it depends on what requirements they have for clearances. If we do a 36x12 layout, that gives us a walkway (4' wide) behind - but the show (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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| | Re: SuperTrain 2001 layout - Mountain layout
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(...) Well, we're still working on that - this is what I got an hour ago: " It's up to you, you can be either 40 x 20 foot, or 75 x 20ish. With the 40 x 20 foot, it would be easier to keep you near the kid's play area though. " I wrote back that the (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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| | Re: SuperTrain 2001 layout - Mountain
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(...) <snip problems> Yup, we'll have to figure something out - but this and other details have to wait for the big question to get answered: Do we have a 'closed-loop' layout, or an 'open C' layout? That tells us if we need 3 tracks (Michel's rough (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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| | Re: SuperTrain 2001 layout prep Saturday?
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I just wanted to publicly thank Michel and James and the rest of NALug for their help on Saturday making barricades for the show next month. SRC StRuCtures (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: SuperTrain 2001 layout - Mountain
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I was trying some layouts in my head yesterday after our Saturday get together and realized two problems with the mountain as it stands. (URL) (The cross tracks represent the bridge.) Number the tracks 1,2,3,4 from top to bottom. As of Sat. we had 1 (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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| | Re: SuperTrain 2001 layout - Container yard
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(...) If James P does have a layout for the container yard that needs to be followed, I'm sure I can incorporate it. I'll e-mail him about it... SRC StRuCtures (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug, lugnet.trains)
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