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Re: Track Geometry for Yards
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 23 Jul 2003 16:30:09 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Ed McGlynn wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, Ondrew Hartigan wrote:
> > Hey cool! Nice work, my only thing I noticed that would be a problem is it's
> > 17ft long! Anyway I will definitely put it to some good use at least as
> > reference.
> > OnDrew <-off to make the yard 8-wide compatable.
Well yeah, 17 feet may be a bit too long...
> It's a good reference, and I'd probably scale it back some to fit table
> dimensions. There's an incongruous electrical connection that needs to be
> removed, however, as you've got polarity reversed on the right end of the yard.
> The right-most switch on the 2nd-to-bottom siding shouldn't have a siding that
> connects to the outer line. Check out the .tdl under View>>Electrical and
> you'll see what I mean.
Yes, a few points of electrical isolation would be needed, especially at the
wye/loop on the right end.
> Thanks for playing out the theory - gets the gears turning...
Sure thing - I think it would be great to get some more creative layouts that
still adhere to the standard geometry.
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| (...) It's a good reference, and I'd probably scale it back some to fit table dimensions. There's an incongruous electrical connection that needs to be removed, however, as you've got polarity reversed on the right end of the yard. The right-most (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jul-03, to lugnet.trains)
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