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Subject: 
12V and 9V on same track footprint
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Date: 
Tue, 1 Apr 2003 11:49:59 GMT
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I am doing some experimenting with running 12V rails inside 9V rails
so I can run 9V and 12V on the same track.  Obviously the switches
don't work, but I always though the curves and straights would - but I
find that there are ridges across the bottom of 12V curves so they
won't fit with all of the 9V ties.

Is there any 12V curved track out there that does fit (I believe it
changed a little during its lifetime)?  Or should I just file down my
12V to make if fit (sound scary.  What have others done?

-Matt :)

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  Re: 12V and 9V on same track footprint
 
I've also been considering (as I believe many people have), the ways in which 12V and 9V trains might run together. Slotting the 12V conductor rails into 9V track seems the most obvious solution, but there are two major problems; it doesn't work for (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)

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