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Re: motorized points - beating a dead horse
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Date: 
Fri, 1 Dec 2000 18:17:56 GMT
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Thank you both for the replies. It looks like you built a mini-hump yard! Is
the other small gray house a de-coupler?
SteveB

In lugnet.trains, Carlo Ottolina writes:
> "STEVEBAR" <stevebarile@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:G4vp62.Hy8@lugnet.com...
> > Carlo,
> > Thanks for the reply! Why use the hinges and 1x2 with rail plate? Is this • to
> > strengthen the housing? In my attempts I added a 1x2 plate under the 2 • hole
> > 1x6 plate and no 1x4 tile underneth.
> > I can't seem to get to the automated yard picture can you reply with a • diect
> > link to the picture?
> > SteveB
> 
> I used the hinges to keep within the "ItLUG train modules constraints".
> We specified the rails to be one plate height over the baseplates...
> 
> You can see pictures of the (small) yard here:
> 
> http://www.geocities.com/~marioferrari/itlug_20001001/generale4.jpg
> http://www.geocities.com/~marioferrari/itlug_20001001/porto.jpg
> 
> I hope to publish a small video of the yard soon.
> It can swap the relative position of three wagons: let's say A, B and C are
> three wagons (the small hoppers in the pictures), and L is the loco. You can
> go into the yard with this train: ABCL, and came out with CABL.
> 
> Cheers
> Carlo.



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"sebarile-MOBL" <steve.e.barile@intel.com> wrote in message news:G4wItw.BAy@lugnet.com... (...) Is (...) Yes, Rick Clark's one. Cheers Carlo (26 years ago, 2-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)

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"STEVEBAR" <stevebarile@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:G4vp62.Hy8@lugnet.com... (...) to (...) hole (...) diect (...) I used the hinges to keep within the "ItLUG train modules constraints". We specified the rails to be one plate height over the (...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)

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