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Re: Yards
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Fri, 28 Apr 2000 10:33:27 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Jonathan Wilson writes:
leave in different directions? has anyone built a wye in lego?

Can someone please tell me what a wye is?

A wye is a method of reversing the direction of a engine, so that it faces the
other way, like a turntable.
(crude artwork

----------(connetion to mainline, or could be mainline)
  `    '
   `  '
    y
    |

One leg of it must be insulated, so that you can reverse the current in a
model. it is just like a reversing loop in that respect.

James



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  Re: Yards
 
(...) Now tell me how to make one without using anything that is not lego and without modifying any lego :) (25 years ago, 28-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)

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  Re: Yards
 
(...) Can someone please tell me what a wye is? (25 years ago, 28-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)

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