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Re: Plasticity MOCs: mountain, heaven, and more
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 4 Mar 2003 11:56:58 GMT
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In lugnet.town, Rick Clark writes:
> In lugnet.town, Andreas Stabno writes:
> > I've been adding some MOCs to my city over the last couple of years and
> > decided to take a few pictures before Minizilla took down the house.
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> <snip really great pics of really great MOCs!!>
> >
> > Train Control Tower
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/astabno/Plasticity3/dcp_2624.jpg
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> Wow! This is impressive! Six train controllers and eighteen (coun't 'em!)
> polarity switches! Golly!
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> I'd love to get some more details on what's going on here. Are there six
> separate loops, or have you used insulated connections to create six control
> blocks? If the latter, how does that work out? Are you able to run multiple
> trains at different speeds and directions?
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> Can you provide a track layout plan (with electrical blocks indicated, if
> appropriate)?
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> Also, are all those polarity switches for remote turnouts? Or do they control
> other stuff as well?
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> Thanks!
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> Rick Clark
You're giving me some great ideas, Rick, but really my setup was quite
simple. As you can see at
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/astabno/Plasticity2/Icons/plasticitylayout.jpg
there were three separate train loops, each with one controller. Another
controller served the switching yard. The fifth one provided power to 6
motorized points, and the last one was sitting idle. All but 6 of the
polarity switches were also idle. My original plan was to motorize the
monorail points and reversing tracks.
The train control tower was built to fit on a small stand. A better
approach would avoid setting the controllers at right angles by building a
wider structure.
HTH,
Andreas
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