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Subject: 
Re: Monorail roll call
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.space, lugnet.trains
Date: 
Tue, 8 Oct 2002 18:08:45 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Frank Filz writes:
...
Again, we had only a few mishaps, some caused by trains
being wired to the reverse polarity, and thus reversing the directional
meanings of the station tracks, resulting in the train cruising through
a station instead of reversing. ...

Wow! I can't believe I've never noticed this! Thanks, Frank, for such a
clear description of a crucial multi-train monorail operational detail.

Cary



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  Re: Monorail roll call
 
(...) Yea, I guess you weren't there when the resulting accident involved your monorail train... :-) Frank (who cleverly educated himself about multiple monorail train operations using someone else's trains...) (22 years ago, 8-Oct-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.trains)

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  Re: Monorail roll call
 
(...) On the Moon Base Layout, we had 4 basically independent monorail runs. One did run right on the edge of the table and was only run when the crowd was small. Two of the runs connected via a turnout, but a station track prevented one train from (...) (22 years ago, 8-Oct-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.trains)

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