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Re: Monorail Track
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Fri, 18 Feb 2000 08:34:54 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Ian Sinclair writes:

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?

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 paths through a layout.

--Ben



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  Monorail Track
 
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 (...) (24 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)

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