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Re: Roundy Roundy
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 2 Aug 2004 09:02:19 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, David Laswell wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
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 trains that run into the operator's area.
Your mainline train can either go straight through, or pull off into the
operator's area. A second train (already set up by hand) can then pull out in
its place. The whole thing can be done in about 8 straights, or 6 if you use
modified curve points (like wot I've just made).
Jason Railton
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| (...) 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 (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jul-04, to lugnet.trains)
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