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Re: Roundy Roundy
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lugnet.trains
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Sat, 31 Jul 2004 17:01:17 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Jason J. Railton wrote:
> Something like a mountain with a tunnel in the middle of your layout, with
> the ability to switch trains out the back and substitute them as they drive
> through would be endlessly fascinating.
Now that sounds like an interesting setup. If you build a mountain large
enough, you should theoretically be able to set it up with parallel tracks and
an automated switching system so that one train can go into the mountain and
another train will come out the other side. When it gets back around to the
other side of the mountain and goes back in, the first train comes out again.
Kids who are actually keeping track of the train as it makes its full loop
should be really impressed by that.
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| (...) It's been done, certanly by VLC and probably by others. (The magic long trainshed by Larry P. as well, I think). As regards why a circular layout- at home, I have enough room that I could run end to end. I don't, instead, I chose to make 2 (...) (20 years ago, 1-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) I wasn't thinking of a passing loop. Just a point that can switch a train out the back of the display at 90° to the running line, and another that can come back in just down the line. You have two parallel tracks for extracting and inserting (...) (20 years ago, 2-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Well, that's not exactly my argument. I'm saying when you block a large area from view just because you don't think a turning loop is 'prototypical', then your audience are more likely to see it as an inconvenience, rather than appreciate your (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jul-04, to lugnet.trains)
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