anyone on this form have or had a gaunlet on there layout ? if so how did you do it ? as i'm thinking of adding one on current layout .
Honestly I was very much considering a gauntlet. I have a near double-wide bridge I built on the back of my layout to accommodate a 24 inch radius in N scale.
I dug up an article how to do a gauntlet. I do believe it was featured in a back issue of Model Railroader magazine.
It looked like a challenge but I wasn't afraid of it. It did look like it could be done with a lot of patience and effort but my bridge would not accommodate the gauntlet and the 24 inch radius curve because of clearance issues.
Unfortunately I gave up on the idea as I spent over 80 hours on the bridge I built. A little late to start changing that.
I was a quite disappointed. I really would have liked to include this on my layout.
Unique, not something you see a lot. I would say if you find it in your means, go for it.
Take care
Track fidler
The Erie Railroad had a gauntlet (gantlet) track in Warren, Ohio where there wasn't enough room for the roadway AND a double track main.
One of the long-standing HO layouts in NE Ohio featuured a gauntlet track as an operating "bottleneck". I gave the idea some thought but then came to the conclusion that it would get pretty tiresome to deal with. I like to be able to run both mains without the risk of a 3/4 head-on wreck if I wasn't paying attention.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauntlet_track
Have Fun! Ed
Thank You.
About thirty years ago, one of the members in my modular club built a fifteen-foot-long gantlet track on his set of modules. At that time, we had about 60 running feet of otherwise double-track mainline. It was an eye-catcher, and he had done an excellent job of hand-laying the track on it.
Overall, we didn't appreciate the bottleneck it created when we were running at shows, especially with the number of members who wouldn't pay a lot of attention to their train once they got into a conversation. This was a problem with an exhibition layout, where we encouraged outreach to passing visitors.
For us, it was an idea ahead of its time-- if we'd had a longer mainline then, or the ability to put it onto a branchline, it wouldn't have been a concern, but by the time we had enough other modules to incorporate the gantlet in a way that it didn't really gum up the works, it had succumbed to age and travel wear.
-Fritz Milhaupt, Publications Editor, Pere Marquette Historical Society, Inc.http://www.pmhistsoc.org
I tried to sell my two cents worth, but no one would give me a plug nickel for it.
I don't have a leg to stand on.
j. c.as i'm thinking of adding one on current layout .
what were you planning on doing?
i've found interesting way gauntlet track solve problems
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