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| I'm designing a bridge that I'd like to later be able to convert to a rail bridge. I'd like to design for two 9V tracks but I don't know how wide people are building trains. Six or Eight? In other words, is it safe to lay two tracks touching (...) (24 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) No. While technically that should pass 6 wide trains, as the track is 8 studs wide, it's not prudent. Many 6 wide trains have things protruding out (my PCC is 8 wide at a point) and if you have any curves anywhere near the bridge approach, (...) (24 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) tracks (...) bridge? (...) I remember a photo in Model Railroader once of a bridge which was really only a single track bridge had two tracks crossing it, the 2nd track was interleaved with the first, something like this horrible ASCII (...) (24 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.trains)
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