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Layout Design Question
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 18 Jun 2003 04:16:57 GMT
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I was thinking about setting up my second LEGO switching layout, with this one
based on a prototypical track layout which features what amounts to a reverse
loop. The loop area serves several industries and the lead into the loop goes to
a yard, which I wouldn’t actually model. In fact the industrial tracks today are
abandoned and the yard is torn up and gone.
Anyway here is a picture of a smaller version of the loop. If I hooked up power
where the red dots are would this really create a short circuit? Since I’m
waiting for a new shipment of track and switches from LEGO and I don’t have
enough curves anyway, I can’t test this layout myself.
It seems to me that since the turnouts route power, the lead is powered
depending on which way the switch is lined. I planned to use the lead as sort of
an interchange track, but you could also use it as a “run around” track.
In other train news, I made my first piece of flextrack for LEGO trains today.
This is my first prototype, and it needs alot more work, and may never be ready
for mass production, but it’s pretty cool anyway. Sorry, no pics yet.
Jeff Christner
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| (...) Yes, it does -sort off-. The switch only turns power on/off for the two inside rails. the two outside rails always remain electrically conductive. Since the outside rail goes all the way round, you would create equal polarity on the track that (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) Yes, it does -sort off-. The switch only turns power on/off for the two inside rails. the two outside rails always remain electrically conductive. Since the outside rail goes all the way round, you would create equal polarity on the track that (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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