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Re: Layout Ideas
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Mon, 17 Feb 2003 16:20:13 GMT
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Correction to my last posting concerning the under track mounted decoupler
system. With only a slight adjustment, (removal of a piece I didn't need)
the system I designed for under track mounting is passable by all normal
cars and motors and seems to work quite nicely, so there is no need for an
additional switch engine as I had originally thought. All that it requires
is that the track be elevated by 2 bricks. Also, will any locomotives or
cars be considered for use that are more than 8x32 providing that they do
not swing as widely in the corners?
> In lugnet.org.us.indylug, Thomas Garrison writes:
> > (2) and (2a) also speak to the question of coupling and decoupling.
> > Basically, there's lots of fun stuff we could do with a train yard/cargo
> > yard/roundhouse, with remote control by an operator, but it requires the
> > ability to decouple cars and engines remotely. With the old layout, we
> > had this neat roundhouse, but we couldn't really do much more than show
> > off locos and run them into and out of the roundhouse; we could not, for
> > example, switch the loco pulling a train (quite aside from logistical
> > problems of having the roundhouse directly on a spur of our main loop)
> > because there was no decoupling mechanism. I don't know how to automate
> > this process, but the mechanism will have an impact on the layout. For
> > example, in Jeramy's proposed layout there was this big rail yard, where
> > the rails were very close together. This would require decouplers that
> > came up from beneath the tracks (not enough room beside the tracks),
> > requiring elevating the whole area (or sinking the table)---doable, but
> > something to think about beforehand.
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| Also, will any locomotives or (...) Would it be more concise to specify a max wheelbase (distance between the centers of rotation of the bogeys) and max overhang (distance from the center of the bogey to the end of the structure)? We could be even (...) (22 years ago, 17-Feb-03, to lugnet.org.us.indylug)
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| If the tracks in the rail yard could be elevated by 2 bricks high we can use a decoupling system from underneath and not have to be concerned so much about how close the tracks are together. The only problem I have ran into in figuring this out is (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-03, to lugnet.org.us.indylug)
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