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Re: Reversing Loop without Insulated Tracks
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lugnet.trains
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Date:
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Tue, 10 Aug 2004 18:24:44 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Ville Tuominen wrote:
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Hello,
this is my first post to Lugnet.
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Hi and welcome! (I have to ask, out of curiousity and nothing else, what’s up
with the transposition on your name vs. posting name though, there has to be a
story there.. I noticed it when I approved your posting setup recently)
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Maybe this is common knowledge in Lego train community, but I have never seen
mentioned that points can be used as insulated tracks. Here is an example of
reversing loop with standard Lego parts:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=864873
You don’t need to break your tracks for reversing loop project and this loop
type takes only one of your straight tracks which are often needed elsewhere.
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Doesn’t this have the possible flaw that if you set both turnouts to route in
the loop direction that you could still get a short?
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Reversing Loop without Insulated Tracks
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| (...) Hello, interesting design and quite simple, but like Larry pointed out, no matter what is the position of "A", if you set "B" to turn, you get a short. Leave "B" to strait amd when a train come to "B", it will push the alingment to pass and (...) (20 years ago, 10-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Reversing Loop without Insulated Tracks
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| Hello, this is my first post to Lugnet. Maybe this is common knowledge in Lego train community, but I have never seen mentioned that points can be used as insulated tracks. Here is an example of reversing loop with standard Lego parts: (URL) You (...) (20 years ago, 10-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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