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Re: Remote Switches & GMLTC main lines
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Fri, 26 Nov 1999 23:37:14 GMT
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Mike Poindexter wrote:
> I am trying to get all the particulars worked out for my train station and was
> wondering a couple of things.
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> #1: On the two mainlines the GMLTC uses, is one designated freight and one
> passenger?
Yes. The third is a short mining loop in the quarry.
> 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.
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> 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?
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.
> #2: I had heard that the GMLTC crew was working on a pneumatic system for
> remote point control, but it is not yet working.
Well, it's not that it isn't working, it's that we haven't gotten around to
hooking it all up:-p It is completely wired (air hoses); we just need to hook up
the points. We will be powering the train yard so that switching will be
possible; our final hurdle is to settle on an uncoupler design.
> 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.
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> Does anybody have any suggestions which way to look?
Pneumatics are pretty nifty....;-)
-John
> 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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