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(...) It is actually possible, you just need to have the legs come in on a straight so you can make an electrical gap by leaving a 1 stud space between two pieces of track. (C) (A) ----\---...---x--/----- -> main -----\ /-----x-- || || / | (B) The (...) (25 years ago, 28-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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What is the general method of unloading spline cars as in this pic? (URL) (25 years ago, 28-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Frank Filz wrote: <frank's excellent description sniiped for space> Thanks for your insights... I might try to make a wye. I think we may be able to get around some of the polarity issues because we use DCC to run our layout. And as I stated in my (...) (25 years ago, 28-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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Thanks for the ideas, I should be able to incorporate a lead of at least five feet into the layout plan without two much difficulty. -chris (...) (25 years ago, 28-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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Since reading some of the other peoples ideas (Thanks Dean!...I stole your track plan :) and so on, having been in the process of rebuilding the trackage on my layout anyway, I decided to make a signal box. The points are easy enough...first I have (...) (25 years ago, 28-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) back (...) ;^) OK - I won't say it! Slam-o-rama, but it's not as bad as it sounds. The RCX ramps down the engine speed when it's backing down a siding, until it clicks on a car and bumps into a buffer that's got a touch sensor embedded within. (...) (25 years ago, 28-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I'm using a borrowed design prototype from another post here - don't recall enough to credit them right now - but it's a motorized technic beam jutting out perpendicular to the track, intercepting the two magnets and forcing them apart. Wait - (...) (25 years ago, 28-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Now tell me how to make one without using anything that is not lego and without modifying any lego :) (25 years ago, 28-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) touch (...) counters (...) OK. You've got my attention now. I'm very interested. How does the train trip the touch sensor? (Please don't say it rams into it). Scott A (25 years ago, 28-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) A wye is a method of reversing the direction of a engine, so that it faces the other way, like a turntable. (crude artwork ---...---(connetion to mainline, or could be mainline) ` ' ` ' y | One leg of it must be insulated, so that you can (...) (25 years ago, 28-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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