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Re: Layout samples
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Wed, 19 Jun 2002 17:27:36 GMT
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I guess I'm not very "up" on train displays, the only Lego ones I've seen up
close were at BrickFest and BricksWest. What I notice about your layouts is
they all feature only one continuously circulating track as far as I can see.
I understand a lot of people like to build rolling stock, but I am sure that
there are multiple engine builders out there too who want their day at the
front.
Add to that the potential interest in displaying some train automation,
which to me means automated control of track sections so as to run more than
one train around the track while guarding against the inevitable state where
one catches another up and I see the need to design in more than one loop.
One loop would have straightforward access to "the yard" with manual or
electric control over the switches to allow someone at the controls to park
one train and get another out. The second loop would essentially just be
running itself with the simple safeguard that if it wasn't working right
that day, the power connections to the track sections could easily be
attached to a manual controller as the backup mode.
I don't know if I'm way off in left field here. I'm certainly working away
on providing the necessary "stuff" for loop two. Plus, of course, evolving
my little part of Lucnyville - the HiTechnic facility which will of course
be placed some distance from the center of town due to the strange and
unknown nature of what exactly the plant makes. (Wish I could add creepy
sound effects to a lugnet post, but you'll just have to imagine ...)
JB
In lugnet.org.us.lucny, Ed McGlynn writes:
> I started generating some layout samples that use 5 of the 30x60 tables.
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| (...) Easy enough to add a second loop to achieve what you're commenting on. You're right - I drew these up fron a single sided viewpoint, I think. I've added a couple more designs on Brickshelf - one is a separate disjointed loop and the other is (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jun-02, to lugnet.org.us.lucny)
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| (...) You're not at all off base. The next MichLTC layout will have the capacity for 5 9V operating units (4 trains and one trolley) at the same time. More motion == goodness. (22 years ago, 20-Jun-02, to lugnet.org.us.lucny)
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| Hi All - I started generating some layout samples that use 5 of the 30x60 tables. See: (URL) also the puny single table (30x72, I think) layout I used at a show some years ago. With that as a scale, I think the 5 table design is easily attended to (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jun-02, to lugnet.org.us.lucny)
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