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Subject: 
Monorail Track
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Fri, 18 Feb 2000 06:56:09 GMT
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Hello all;

I just recently started collecting monorail track and sets for my
future project.

I was pleasantly surprised to see how the points or switches work.
The way the switches are automatically thrown if approached in the
wrong position is pretty cool.

It had me wondering if there was anything special about 9v track
switches?  Are they thrown automatically as well, or just allow the
train to pass through?

<ICS>



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  Re: Monorail Track
 
(...) You can pass against the setting of the point reliably. In fact, someone has posted some interesting train layouts which rely on this feature to allow two trains travelling in opposite directions to take different but partially overlapping (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
  Re: Monorail Track
 
(...) quite... I havn't had a chance to play with them yet (since we just now got our 6990, and it has no switches anyway) but the concept is very nice... (...) pass through - with a nice "click" sound too :) though, under some situations, if the (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)

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