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Re: Latest Larger Layout
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Thu, 26 Oct 2000 18:10:36 GMT
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OK - Here's an update using 7 large and 7 small.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=18301
It has all the things we're after, plus it has a feature that till
now we have been missing - a section that reverses the trains!
The trains stop in front of the station, so that segment switching
appears to be just part of normal operation, rather than an accomodation
to the "single-direction" design of TLC.  An alternate to the usual
isolated section would be if we used one of my "SSwitches"
(which I confess I haven't gotten around to finishing yet.)

SRC



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  Re: Latest Larger Layout
 
(...) Looks good. The only problem I see is that it short-circuits the loop. (And I'm still being silent about a 61x61 mountain with 4 tunnels & a spiral) :) James James Brown's Parts Sale: (URL) parts, averaging $0.10 per piece. (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug)

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(...) That's what I was wondering. I notice James and Chris were silent about being able to make a 60" x 60" mountain with four tunnels, one of them with a spiral chamber, and all of them curved. 8-) With enough time and bricks it would be "doable", (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug, lugnet.trains)

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