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Re: Trains Trains and Train Shows.
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lugnet.trains.org
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Tue, 13 Mar 2001 20:01:39 GMT
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In lugnet.trains.org, Richie Dulin writes:
> In lugnet.loc.au, Ross Crawford writes:
> > And what do you do about crossovers between separately controlled loops?
> If you have two independent loops, each with a storage siding (one train
> running the circuit, one train waiting in the siding), it becomes very
> awkward when someone decides to move a train between loops, because
> there's not enough space to "park" two trains on one loop, and still
> leave the circuit free for the train from the other loop to enter.
> Most, if not all, "serious" exhibition layouts do not use the crossovers
> between loops, and just run one set of trains on each loop.
If that's true (IMO it's not) there's no reason for it to be the case.
Consider: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=37505
a simple interconnected double-loop like what Michel designed for
GETS last fall. As long as you run the inner and outer loops in the same
direction, trains can be switched from one loop to the other without
stopping either train on either loop. (The smaller the loops are, the
harder it is to time it right of course though.) Such a layout also
allows a single train to run a sort-of figure-eight cross-over loop.
SRC
StRuCtures
L#765
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| (...) It may well be easier if they don't interconnect! If you have two independent loops, each with a storage siding (one train running the circuit, one train waiting in the siding), it becomes very awkward when someone decides to move a train (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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