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    Home layouts (Re: Huge layout) —Frank Buiting
    "Sonnich Jensen" <sonnich@hot.ee> wrote in message news:GC7Fov.7sK@lugnet.com... (...) I would really like to see the trackdesigner plan for this layout! I was planning to build a big layout too (I have access to a attic 7 x 13m) and I have been (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
   
        Re: Home layouts (Re: Huge layout) —James Powell
      (...) -I'd like to see one too! I was (...) I've had some smallish (by that standards!) layouts. The biggest took up my entire living room (not just trains, but cityscape too), as well as running through my dining room and into the bedroom (and (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)
    
         Re: Home layouts (Re: Huge layout) —Frank Buiting
     (...) Sounds like a fun layout! I really like the kind of tracks where the train _really_ travels some distance and you have to move to keep the train in view :-) Trains running from one room to another are big fun! :-) (...) I'm thinking of (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)
    
         Re: Home layouts (Re: Huge layout) —James Powell
      (...) It's not aware as to where it is, that _can_ be done, but I haven't investigated far enough to tell _how_ to do it. (You can cornfield meet 2 trains with DCC easy...its much harder to do so with regular train wiring) DCC is primarily intended (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)
   
        Re: Home layouts (Re: Huge layout) —John Neal
      (...) When you do get around to building it, Frank, I hope that you decide to build it modular. That way you could transport it to a show or to some event some day. Permanent layouts are nice, but can only be fully appreciated by a few. Pics on the (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)
    
         Re: Home layouts (Re: Huge layout) —Frank Buiting
     (...) I agree with that! Models can only be appreciated to the fullest by seeing the stuff in all three dimensions :-) However, the layout I have in mind requires at lot of wooden structures to support the scenary, I have uploaded my initial design (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)
    
         Re: Home layouts (Re: Huge layout) —Rick Clark
      I hope you get around to building it too! This is a great layout. It's rather difficult to create a large layout, doubly difficult to make it interesting (and not just look like a double loop). I always find it particularly diffucult to resist the (...) (23 years ago, 1-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
    
         Re: Home layouts (Re: Huge layout) —Steve Chapple
     (...) A nice layout, but why didn't you make it possible for trains to switch from one loop to the other - why the isolation? SRC L#765 StRuCtures (23 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
    
         Re: Home layouts (Re: Huge layout) —Frank Buiting
      "Steve Chapple" <LEGOArches@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:GCrxBw.Mx2@lugnet.com... (...) The main reason is that I want to have multiple trains on the track and I'm not sure what would happen if two transformers behave when accidently get (...) (23 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
    
         Re: Home layouts (Re: Huge layout) —Dwayne Towell
     (...) I was in charge of powering the train for the 3000+' attempt at PNLTC's G2K World Record attempt. We used 10 or 12 power supplies on a single very long track. As long as the polarity is set right, we detected no ill effects. The train speed (...) (23 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
    
         Re: Home layouts (Re: Huge layout) —Frank Filz
     (...) A simple examination of the electronics says that there is almost no possibility of a problem if the two controllers are set to the same polarity. (23 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
   
        Re: Home layouts —Andreas Stabno
   (...) I have a fairly good size layout in my basement with the following Track Designer image: (URL) it's primarily a town display that happens to include trains, but I felt the overall placement of the loops worked well. Arrange well, Andreas (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
   
        Re: Home layouts —Chris Leach
   (...) Andreas,Quick which of those plates in that design were mine :-) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
   
        Re: Home layouts —Andreas Stabno
   (...) 8 curves and 6 straights from the top-most curvy road. :) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
 

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