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Re: 'Dog Bone' - definition
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Sun, 11 Mar 2001 03:45:38 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> Thus the answer to your question is "none" since you did not show the other
> end of the trackage. It is possible that Dog2 is one, if those two sets of
> doubletracks meet somewhere. Dog3 is not since it's single track once you
> get out of the reversing loop. Dog1 I dunno.
Assuming there's another end, I would say that Dog1 is a valid end of a
folded dogbone. If you unfold the loop, it's just a dogbone where the
double track comes out of the center of the loop instead of at one edge.
Of course like Larry says, the technical name for your track arrangement
is much less interesting than actually getting a good track arrangement.
Frank
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| (...) Yes, I agree. Realised it after i posted but got sucked into something else. (...) And what makes an interesting/convenient arrangment for a show may well be very different from what makes an interesting arrangement for a home layout. At a (...) (23 years ago, 11-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) The definition of a "dogbone" is an oval that has been pinched in the middle so that the two sides of it are close enough together that they look like double track... then stretched to quite a bit longer. That's the key idea... it could have (...) (23 years ago, 11-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains)
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