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Re: Trolley line automation
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lugnet.trains
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Sat, 18 Aug 2001 16:46:27 GMT
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johnneal@uswest.IHATESPAMnet
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Kevin Wilson wrote:
> John Gerlach wrote in message ...
> > two, or three, or more!) My current GMLTC project is automating the • trolley
> > line through our 'downtown' area. Single track, reversing loop on one end,
> > turntable on the other. I think I can automate the entire process, • including
> > having the trolley stop at the train station, using three RCXs...
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> Aren't most trolleys double ended, so you can run them in either direction?
> What are you going to be using the turntable for? (Not criticising, just
> interested!)
If I may.... the reason is the pantograph pole-- if the trolley simply
reverses, the pole would be pointed in the wrong direction. We toyed with
ideas about flipping it back and forth, but nothing really seemed to work out.
A double loop would be the easiest solution, but space at that end is an
issue. We are open to any suggestions, though:-)
-J-2
> Dean Husby did a RCX program for the trolley line on our current VLC layout
> which has it running in one direction, stopping and waiting at stations,
> then reversing direction when it reaches the other end.
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> Kevin
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| I guess I am going to show my age here. In Los Angeles, in the forties, the trolleys had a pole on both ends and the conductor simply pulled one down and raised the other. He then sat in the seat at the other end of the car and went the opposite (...) (23 years ago, 18-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| John Gerlach wrote in message ... (...) trolley (...) including (...) Aren't most trolleys double ended, so you can run them in either direction? What are you going to be using the turntable for? (Not criticising, just interested!) Dean Husby did a (...) (23 years ago, 18-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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