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Re: Remote Turnouts and Decouplers
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 14 Jan 2002 18:18:07 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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> Whoops... hit send a bit early)
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> In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > One of the new features of the MichLTC layout was Steve Ringe's home layout
> > module "plopped in" to a section of the show layout. (it therefore contained
> > a "local loop" to allow
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> This sentence should finish " to allow running trains without interfering
> with main show loop operations". We think we may want to add more local
> loops in future shows to increase the amount of motion
I also feel local loops are a good thing. PNLTC has been running several
local loops also haven't they? Of course I'm doing local loops using 12v
so I can do automated turnouts and block control without nearly so much
work :-) (and I may one day get an uncoupler, but I suspect the various
fan built ones are much better than 7862).
--
Frank Filz
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 | | More Loops at shows...
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| We found that at shows the more train running the better. We originally started with the concept of two main lines, but as the layout got bigger it took longer for the trains to come round! So we started adding local loops. Now we think in terms of (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Remote Turnouts and Decouplers
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| Whoops... hit send a bit early) (...) This sentence should finish " to allow running trains without interfering with main show loop operations". We think we may want to add more local loops in future shows to increase the amount of motion (22 years ago, 14-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains)
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