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Subject: 
Re: SuperTrain 2001 layout - Mountain Switching
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lugnet.org.ca.nalug, lugnet.trains
Date: 
Fri, 5 Jan 2001 23:14:55 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.nalug, Steve Chapple writes:
In lugnet.org.ca.nalug, James Brown writes:
Hmm.  I don't think we can pull off a 15 footer, quite.
Quick question: How *wide* are our tables?

Two feet by eight feet (or 6 or 4, but what point is a 2'x4' table?)

One way of getting a switching yard with fairly close parallel tracks
is in one of the layout ideas I had...

For the track designer impaired, here's what he's talking about...
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=26098
It's nice, but it still doesn't get the tracks any closer together
than the standard switch width.  Nice and organized though.  :-)

?
Why do you want the spurs so close together?  If there's one thing we
*aren't* short of, it's space.  Stick with the geometry.  Even a
space-eating ladder-style yard works just fine.

James



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  Re: SuperTrain 2001 layout - Switching Yard
 
(...) True - there's no shortage of _floor_ space, and I can always add more tables, but at $1/foot out of my pocket (hopefully reimbursed but no garauntee) I'd like to make maximum use of space. Also, I have to stay within reach of the edge of the (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug, lugnet.trains)

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  Re: SuperTrain 2001 layout - Mountain Switching
 
(...) Two feet by eight feet (or 6 or 4, but what point is a 2'x4' table?) (...) For the track designer impaired, here's what he's talking about... (URL) nice, but it still doesn't get the tracks any closer together than the standard switch width. (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug, lugnet.trains)

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