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Subject:	Re: SuperTrain 2001 layout - Mountain Switching
Newsgroups:	lugnet.org.ca.nalug, lugnet.trains
Date:	Fri, 5 Jan 2001 18:47:07 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.nalug, Steve Chapple writes: > In lugnet.org.ca.nalug, Steve Chapple writes: > > > > We can incorporate a line going along a mountain ridge > > > > without much difficulty. > > > Great. > > How long can you make the mountain? Could you make three or four > > three foot sections (that would connect to each other)? The tunnels > > not curving won't matter if the tunnels are long enough, especially with > > them being so far from where someone could "look down them" anyway. > > > > How's this? http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=25907 > > <snip> > > Imagine grey bricks wherever you see grey base plate now. > > OK - Make that imagine grey bricks three times as long as what is shown. > ie. A dozen grey baseplates long. (Yes, that is a fifteen foot mountain.) > Of course it doesn't _have_ to be that long - how long can you make it? Hmm. I don't think we can pull off a 15 footer, quite. Quick question: How *wide* are our tables? I've been thinking that they're 30", standard banquet table width, but I seem to recall you saying "2 feet" somewhere... > Re: The switching yard. I tried making it this way last night with the > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=26033 physical track > segments, and it won't really work without cutting about one stud off > the corner. Also, the switch handle might catch on a low hanging part > of a train car. <sigh> These points go twice as far as they "should". One way of getting a switching yard with fairly close parallel tracks is in one of the layout ideas I had... The major complication is that the yard is 90 degrees to the mainline, which pretty much means it has to go on a corner. Lower left of: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Jamesb/layouts/oct24_v3.tdl Eats up a lot of switches, though. :/ James

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		Re: SuperTrain 2001 layout - Mountain Switching
(...) Two feet by eight feet (or 6 or 4, but what point is a 2'x4' table?) (...) For the track designer impaired, here's what he's talking about... (URL) nice, but it still doesn't get the tracks any closer together than the standard switch width. (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug, lugnet.trains)

		Re: SuperTrain 2001 layout - Mountain Switching
(...) Two feet by eight feet (or 6 or 4, but what point is a 2'x4' table?) (...) For the track designer impaired, here's what he's talking about... (URL) nice, but it still doesn't get the tracks any closer together than the standard switch width. (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug, lugnet.trains)

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		Re: SuperTrain 2001 layout - Mountain Switching
I'm posting this also in the main trains group in case someone has indeed cut the edge off some switches or found a way to make a switching yard close together like this. I'm going to try an interleaved yard to get the tracks the way I want - I'll (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug, lugnet.trains)

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