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Re: Track to return engine? In English?
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 26 Feb 2001 18:01:26 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> Turning around is more important for steam engines than for diesels,
> especially multiple unit diesel which usually are arranged so that the end
> units face outward.
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> Hence wyes are relatively uncommon. Much more prevalent is the runaround
> track which is basically a double ended siding. The engine "runs around" the
> train and couples to the other end, then proceeds back the way it came.
This brings up one of the things on my wish list for somewhere in the distant
future...
I think it would be nice if we could run trains on a layout in a "Dog Bone"
configuration (I.E. 2 reversing loops connected by a length of staight track)
with some sort of RCX style control to work the switches and power going
through the loops.
This would allow us to do a very long and narrow layout as opposed to the more
traditional square/rectangle with a loop of track.
I realize its a bit of a pipe dream but I do like to dream...
Eric Kingsley
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: 'Dog Bone'
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| (...) I'm working on that very thing for the new GMLTC layout. I've got it pieced together (no pun intended!) in my head, it's just a matter of programming the RCX and give it a whirl. If I'm thinking of everything correctly, it's a simpler solution (...) (24 years ago, 26-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Track to return engine? In English?
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| I was thinking of using 12v track for this kind of thing - running both rails as 0v, and both centre lines moving betweeen +9v..-9v. Dunno if it's worth trying to get hold of all that 12v track, though. Wouldn't need RCX control, but you would need (...) (24 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Track to return engine? In English?
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| (...) In addition to a name for a switch, a wye is also a triangular arrangment of trackage that allows a train or locomotive to reverse the way that it faces. Similar to a "3 point turn" with a car, you proceed down one branch, reverse to cross (...) (24 years ago, 26-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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