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Re: Roundy Roundy
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 29 Jul 2004 23:33:45 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Tim David wrote:
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I remember you mentioning that at the Brickish AGM and thought it was
interesting. It sounds exactly the sort of thing I’d like to build FOR MYSELF
so that I could do complicated shunting when I wanted (but not all day!) Did
it work well, ie was it practical to operate or did it need intervention from
‘the great hand in the sky’ a lot?
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Here’s the track plan:
I don’t have any pictures of the finished module, but I think there might be
some from the club events pictures.
The siding in the very bottom-left started on a pier at the front of the table.
That went under a (low) bridge, then rose up to end on top of a sea wall to the
far right. You then went back along the other main siding, and that went along
the top of a curved, rising quay wall, over the top of the bridge and ended up
in the top-left corner.
Obviously to shunt on it, you had to keep pulling the couplings apart and
switching points. You could also only have one engine and one wagon to the
right of the rightmost point, and only two wagons in each of the smaller
sidings. I ran two locos and five small wagons on it though, and there’s plenty
of scope for swapping them around to make up lines of trucks in the sidings.
But because of the rising quay wall at the front, the inner sidings were
obscured from a child’s point of view. It meant things disappeared, then popped
out from under the bridge, but most of what was going on was hidden. The ideal
viewing height would have been at the top of the wall, not the bottom.
My next plan is to do a loop + elevated siding, that will at least fit on one of
our modules with a shelf on the back. That will probably be Mediterranean
mountain/coastal themed like the very end of the GWLTS II layout, so I can add
rough arches and spaces to see through.
I also wondered about making it adapatable so it could be used as the
turn-around loop on the end of a longer layout. I’d have to have much larger
clearances on everything though, to take everyone’s trains. It would also mean
hurrying it up, whereas I’d rather build several more spread out modules for the
next display.
Jason Railton
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| (...) For exhibition layouts I would say I have to agree with everything youy say above. Lego IS a toy and if you want trains to go through a moon-base so what? Loops allow for continuous movement with less operator effort. My comment about the (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.trains)
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