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Re: 'Dog Bone' - definition
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 13 Mar 2001 19:18:57 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Steve Chapple writes:
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> > Having spent a great deal of time on the Supertrain layout, this is
> > something I'm very interested in. A couple of 100' long straight
> > segments with a town and one end and an industrial area at the other
> > was what comprised our "main loop". I've described the layout as
> > three (interconnected) loops, but that's because of how I define "dog
> > bone". Is it defined simply by how it looks? Doesn't the track
> > geometry come into play? The first one is what we had at Supertrain,
> > but I'd only (for sure) call the third one a dog-bone, as it's the only
> > one that actually loops back on itself. I might call the second one a
> > dog-bone because the cross-overs _do_ cause it to cross back onto
> > itself, albeit very briefly and not in the same was as the switches.
> >
> > Here are three layout diagrams:
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=36350
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=36349
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=36351
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> > Which one(s) would be defined as dog bones and why?
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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... ...an oval except it got squished and stretched.
Ah - OK Then would this be a single or double dog-bone?
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=37504
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| (...) A double dogbone would be if the whole dogbone was double track, I think. That means including the end loops... one nested inside the other ++Lar (26 years ago, 13-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 'Dog Bone' - definition
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 11-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains)
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