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Re: 8 wide and bigger (was Re: 8 Wide)
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 19 Jan 2000 21:44:05 GMT
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johnneal@uswest.^NoSpam^net
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Kevin Loch wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, Mike Poindexter writes:
> > John2,
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> > You may not need to get a couple of million bricks for your 8 wide layout.
> > You can just use mine. It will be built to allow 8 wide trains to run. I
> > fixed the problems with the turns being too sharp and am going to next fix
> > the track point geometry. Only real problem I am running into now is that
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> Would a simple solution to the turn problem be to just double up on
> magnets? (stick an extra magnet or two between the cars).
Hmmm. Spacing was never a problem for me. (Perhaps because I do not use the
buffers). Mike, is this the problem to which you are referring (decoupling)?
Since my passenger cars are so heavy, there seems to be a limit as to how many
I can pull before decoupling occurs (3 cars). I see two solutions. First is
to place motors in the rear car (2) while having 2 pull from the loco/tender.
Second, which I have yet to try, is to forsake magnets altogether and use
these pieces:
http://home.att.net/~partsref/images/3640.gif
http://home.att.net/~partsref/images/3639.gif
As soon as I get some of them together, I think I will experiment with them.
-John
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> KL
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