Re: Layout Update

["Bill Lohman" <844bill@gmail.com>]

All,

 

This is really good news for those of us with articulated locos.  Thanks. 

 

The rest of the story is that 21 inch passenger cars on --say-- track one and articulated locomotives --say -- on track two -- interfere with each other on certain corners even if the layout is in a rectangle  -- due to the combination of the smaller curve radii and 4+ inch track center spacing.

 

So, I'm hoping the next step will be to build some new corner modules with a much wider minimum radius.  

 

If and when the club decides to do this, I volunteer to help build new corner modules.  And I offer my place to do the basic construction. Working with other club members we could SWAT the basic construction over a weekend or two at the most.  I have an air conditioned garage/workshop and all the power tools needed to accurately and efficiently construct them (and a TV to watch football!!)   And we can run your trains and mine on my layout while taking breaks!  There's a TV in the layout room, too.

 

Bill

 

 

 

 

 

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Allan Adelman <aadelman@austin.rr.com> wrote:

All,

On Saturday, Ricky, Ira and I talked about ways to move track one on the reverse curve of the "L" to the outer (the sharpest) track instead of the second track right next to track 2 so we can run articulateds without worrying about hitting whatever was on track two.  What we theorized is that if we used the other two crossovers backwards so that track one had the jog and not track 4 and using the reversing wires already on the layout moved to the far sides of the crossover, this would work.  Graphically, this is what we wanted to try:



Ricky and I tried this in application today (with help from John Eagle) and everything worked as we had planned.  So, now if you have an articulated, it can be run on track one with no worries about hitting whatever is on track two.

Allan