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Re: Roundy Roundy
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Thu, 5 Aug 2004 11:21:14 GMT
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In Europe a lot of EMUs, DMUs or push-pull (loco on one side, steering car on
the other) trains are used, so without having to get the loco to the other side
of the train the train can run in opposite direction (only the driver has to
walk to the other end of the train).
Before my dark ages I and a friend built lots of EMUs and DMUs and an end to end
track with two large stations, sometimes even with a branch and another station.
Because of lack of 12V conductor rails and motors, most of our trains were hand
powered (pushing them along by hand) and the switches were operated by hand,
too.
His father was a teacher and they lived near the school. During the summer
vacation, we used an empty classroom (tables and chairs moved out of the room)
to build our layout. Enough space for end to end layouts. We had lots of fun.
Niels
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| (...) I think the write up of the VLC train operating session is somewhere...anyway, the area we had was not really big enough, at something like 40x40 ft for a true end to end layout. I don't know how big you would have to go to have room for 6-10 (...) (20 years ago, 7-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| A dogbone is good for giving an impression of a double track main line, especially if you hide the loops at each end to a certain extent. However what I was really wondering was whether the characteristic of Lego train components effectivly (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jul-04, to lugnet.trains)
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