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Re: Getting diagonal track to line up properly?
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Date: 
Wed, 13 Nov 2002 19:30:30 GMT
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Christopher Tracey <ctracey@enviroweb.org> writes:

William R Ward wrote:
This is very interesting... Is there a similar formula for a dog-leg?
1 curve, X straights, 1 curve the other way?  What equations/formulae
would you use to compute this?  It's been way too many years since I
studied trigonometry...

I don't have an equation, but I think one curve, 12 straights, one
curve will do a dog-leg that is eight 32-stud baseplates long and 88
studs wide (3 baseplates minus 4 studs each side).

THANK YOU!!! This works perfectly!  I just tested it in Track
Designer....

--Bill.

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William R Ward            bill@wards.net          http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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  Re: Getting diagonal track to line up properly?
 
(...) Does it work perfectly or does it go over in length by at least a half a stud? I couldn't tell from Track Designer. -chris (22 years ago, 14-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)

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  Re: Getting diagonal track to line up properly?
 
(...) I don't have an equation, but I think one curve, 12 straights, one curve will do a dog-leg that is eight 32-stud baseplates long and 88 studs wide (3 baseplates minus 4 studs each side). -chris (22 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)

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