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Re: Track to return engine? In English?
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Mon, 26 Feb 2001 22:41:59 GMT
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Like mine....
www.geocities.com/sonnichj/lego/metropas.htm
Or in the real world:
http://mercurio.iet.unipi.it/pix/dk/car/pix.html
(scroll down)
Sonnich
Jeff Christner <regult@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Larry Pieniazek wrote:
>
> > 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 the "top of the triangle" then come down the other branch, and • you
> > are now facing hte other way. Wye switches are often used in making wye
> > tracks, but it is not required to do so
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> None of the three wyes in this area use wye switches.
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> > 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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> Some freight cars must also be turned before spotting them at their
> respective industries. Boxcars are sometimes marked "unload this side
> only" while some covered hoppers only have connections on one side for
> unloading.
>
> In a strange step backward, some newer locomotives have what are
> called desktop control stands. That is the engineer sits facing foward
> and all the controls are arranged in front of him. These units are not
> designed to be run backwards at all, at least not over long distances.
> Most locomotives still have conventional control stands that face
> sideways so the engineer can easily run either way.
>
> > 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.
> >
> > ++Lar
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> I've heard about some passenger trains in and around Chicago that run
> in what is called push-pull operation. They have an engine on one end,
> and when they get to the end of the line, and need to reverse, the
> engineer goes to the rear of the train. The rear passenger car is
> specially equipped with a small contol booth so the engineer can
> operate the engine and push the train on the return trip.
>
> As far as buffer stop goes, we call them bumper stops, or bumping
> blocks. If you hit them hard enough though they will break.
>
> Jeff Christner
>
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