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the joy of continuse running
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I, too am strugging with continuous running vs. no continuous running on a small layout. <br /> <br />No offense to anyone, but I am turned off by seing any track make a u-turn, yet, I have no space for a large layout. My wife and I will be moving to a new house soon, but I must share the garage with my other hobby - my drums! <br /> <br />So, I'll be making a shelf layout. But I want continous running! <br /> <br />So, I'm thinking about a shelf layout, but with a thin ring of "return track" that wraps around from one end to the other, so I end up standing in the middle of the loop. <br /> <br />I'm going to make the "return track" removable. Who knows, I may never remove it, or I may always remove it. <br /> <br />This will allow me the realistic scenes a shelf layout provides (large radii, no track turning 180degress on itself, etc.), but with the option for continuous running. <br /> <br />A return loop such as this will require a duckunder, hinged section, removable section, etc. It will require something tricky like that. <br /> <br />Also, the return loop section will not be scenicked. Maybe I'll be able to rig up a timing circuit on it so the train takes some time before returning to the actual shelf layout, where I'll be able to be doing some switching before the train on the main line comes back to town.... <br /> <br />As soon as I find out how to post an image on here, I'll post a cad image of what I'm talking about.
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