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Re: Track geometry in real life - need resources
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 31 Oct 2002 17:24:09 GMT
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Pedro Silva wrote:
> Hi all,
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> Can someone please indicate me a good on-line resource where I can find
> track diagrams from REAL stations, depots, junctions and such?
> I am interested in knowing how designers have overcome awkward limitations
> to the possible geometries. Right now I am trying to design a station, where
> I'd like to implement less conventional solutions for track disposition (in
> order to make train operations simpler, supressing the need to reverse at
> terminal stations for instance).
> It's more an exercise of "can it be done like this with LEGO?" than a *real*
> building project, but I'm quite interested in it despite that - hence my
> plead for help.
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> TIA for any help you can provide,
I have some drawings of a dutch railway station, fairly large though.
What I have learned so far is that they even resort to building special
points "on the spot" so as far as geometry goes (I've seen 3 different
point angles so far in this layout) not to mentioned point-in-a-curve
(sorry for that word, not used to English railway speak, only dutch/german)
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| Hi all, Can someone please indicate me a good on-line resource where I can find track diagrams from REAL stations, depots, junctions and such? I am interested in knowing how designers have overcome awkward limitations to the possible geometries. (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.pt)
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