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Re: Track Question
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 18 Dec 2000 01:11:14 GMT
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Michael Pratt wrote:
> In article <G5LopF.9Fw@lugnet.com>,
> lawrence@thewilkesfamily.freeserve.co.uk (lawrence wilkes) wrote:
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> > Do you mean having a passing line
> > like this crude diagram, where there are two switches to allow a length • of
> > parallel track?
> > ----<=====>-----
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> Yes I do !
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> > If so, you must remember to switch both switches to isolate one of the • lines
> > though if the parallel line is long enough to allow both trains to pass • each
> > other in motion, and you wanted to sit and actually play with it, a • quick
> > bit of switching would allow both trains to continue in motion as they • pass
> > by switching the switches one at a time.
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> I don't think you can do this with 12 volt though.
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> Michael Pratt
Can't do it with prototypes either, I think. Not legally, anyway,... ;-)
Rick C.
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 | | Re: Track Question
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| (...) Depends on the length of the passing track and the number of blocks. I think to do it legally, the passing track would have to be three times as long as the longest train plus some (so that each leg of the passing track can be three blocks), (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Track Question
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| (...) (about doing flying passes)-yes, you can, but usually you run out of room to do it rather than anything else. You can also do what is called a "sawbuck", which is when you have one train longer than the siding take the siding to pass the other (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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