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Re: Train widths
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lugnet.trains
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Sat, 4 Nov 2000 10:49:36 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Amy Hughes writes:
> 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 side-by-side and expect other people's trains to pass on this bridge?
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, cars may not be squared up.
8 wide, of course, is even worse in this regard. The details may protrude
out more than a stud, and the cars, being longer generally, have more of the
"curve effect" as well.
Myself I'd go with a 3 or 4 stud gap between tracks if I possibly could.
Note that there are double track bridges where only one train at a time is
allowed on them for clearance reasons...
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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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| 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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