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Re: Getting diagonal track to line up properly?
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 12 Nov 2002 15:40:04 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, William R. Ward writes:
> The 1-11-3 design isn't very close at all, according to Track
> Designer.
What does work is 1-13-3. It's close enough that Track Designer will
consider it a closed loop.
You can turn it into a triangle with a 5-13-7-12-4-5 pattern (starting with
curves and alternating with straights). Then it's easy enough to see that
it forms a lesser know Pythagorean triplet, 5-12-13. The angle formed by
short leg and the hypoteneuse is 22.62 degrees, which matches very close to
the curve track being 22.5 degrees.
John
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| (...) The 1-11-3 design isn't very close at all, according to Track Designer. Here's what I did: straight, curve right, 11 straights (5 switches and a straight, but that is equivalent), 3 curves right, cross-track. Then from the cross-track, a bunch (...) (22 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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