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Counter-clockwise on an oval makes sense to me because if the tracks were side-by-side, the flow of the trains would be the same as the flow of regular traffic in America. I did some studying on this a while back and had my suspicions confirmed: while really you can run either way, locomotive traffic is patterned after regular traffic; you drive on the right-hand side of the road. So running counter-clockwise on an oval just made more sense to me. <br /> <br />Now if I were modelling any non north american country that got its start in motive power under the rule of the British empire, things would be quite the opposite.
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