Subject:
|
Re: Building Bridges
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.trains
|
Date:
|
Fri, 26 Nov 1999 22:55:20 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
1079 times
|
| |
| |
> The whole layout is about 26'7" long.
This was another Q. Can a track this long be power by a single trasformer?
Scott A
|
|
Message has 1 Reply: | | Re: Building Bridges
|
| (...) Yup, but I cheat a bit. The track is in four zones: 2 on the bridge (each of two parallel tracks), and one more for each turnabout. The bridge zones are trivial - each is only 7 track segments long. I'm away from my track designer, so I can't (...) (25 years ago, 28-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: Building Bridges
|
| Hi, all: I'm in the midst of a large bridge project myself. I'm adhering to the 2 plate slope / 1 plate rate-of-change guideline, but for other reasons. I'd add that you probably shouldn't climb sharply through turns - that just complicates the (...) (25 years ago, 26-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
|
22 Messages in This Thread:
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|