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Remote Switches & GMLTC main lines
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Fri, 26 Nov 1999 21:56:32 GMT
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I am trying to get all the particulars worked out for my train station and was
wondering a couple of things.
#1: On the two mainlines the GMLTC uses, is one designated freight and one
passenger? I am curious, since I can't see how to (easily) get the outside
track to cross the inside track, which would make it difficult to have a
station be able to work for both sides of the track without having the main
lines run through the middle of the loading tracks.
My assumption is that the passenger trains that pass from station to station
would come from the inside loop, but then how would a loco pass from back side
of a module to the far track without having the inside rail reroute itself
around the back of the roundhouse, engine shed or whatever else hold the
freight car?
#2: I had heard that the GMLTC crew was working on a pneumatic system for
remote point control, but it is not yet working. I will be using remote
points some time in the early part of next year and can't decide what type of
system would be best. With pneumatics, you don't strip gears, burn out mini-
motors and get to make long runs with tubing, which is much cheaper than
electrical runs. Also, a switch and a ram are cheaper than a motor. Of
course, a motor would still be needed to flip the switch to use mindstorms for
control, unless somebody creates an electric pneumatic switch.
Does anybody have any suggestions which way to look? I think I can get either
system to work, but I would prefer not to re-invent the wheel, so to speak.
By the way, all my points are the new harder to switch ones.
Mike Poindexter
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Message has 5 Replies:
 | | Re: Remote Switches & GMLTC main lines
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| (...) Mike, it depends. Are you a lego purist? (...) Space to protect LEGO purists (...) If you are not a lego purist, then open up the back of the point and hack off the tab. I know that there is at least 2 web pages with descriptions of the (...) (25 years ago, 26-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Remote Switches & GMLTC main lines
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| (...) Yes. The third is a short mining loop in the quarry. (...) The passenger line runs along the outside of the layout. This leaves the freight line on the inside and able to freely access the roundhouse and freight yard. (...) Well, it's not (...) (25 years ago, 26-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Remote Switches & GMLTC main lines
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| John N already answered but I will butt in too.. (...) I'm gonna go with "no". I know John said "yes" but from what I saw when running at shows, it was whatever people felt like running. The station in the corner doesn't really have a lot of (...) (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Remote Switches & GMLTC main lines
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| (...) Depends who you ask :) I looked over the designs by Ben Fleskes (air) and Leo Dorst (motor), and took what I thought was the best of both worlds. I have a writeup, but not good pictures, at: (URL) have links to their designs, but Leo's link is (...) (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Remote Switches & GMLTC main lines
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| (...) was (...) *big snip* (...) for (...) either (...) Mike, I of the motorized remote switch camp. You make valid points on the merits of effective low cost pneumatic solutions, but my newer Technic motors haven't burned out yet, like the old (...) (25 years ago, 28-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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