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Re: 'Dog Bone'
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 26 Feb 2001 19:10:28 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, James Brown writes:
> > My christmas tree layout is always a dogbone, and I recommend them highly.
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> All three operational loops that we had at Supertrain were dogbones, and
> worked well for crowd-pleasing. The only real hitch was that we couldn't
> run many long trains becuase they'd keep dropping cars or slowing/stopping
> on the end loops because of friction around the loop. The longest train we
> could consistently run was about 12-15 cars of 6-wide passenger stuff
> (mostly JamesP & Zonker's VIA trains), and even that would occasionally lose
> the last few cars going around the end of the dogbone.
Yet another good reason why it would be nice to have a wider radius track
section...
For now though if you have room you might want to consider extending the loop
part of the dogbone. Of course if you extend it to much it really isn't a
dogbone anymore :-).
Eric Kingsley
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| (...) All three operational loops that we had at Supertrain were dogbones, and worked well for crowd-pleasing. The only real hitch was that we couldn't run many long trains becuase they'd keep dropping cars or slowing/stopping on the end loops (...) (24 years ago, 26-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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