It is not on my layout.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Watching the webcams, which frequently have a diamond, that must have been a bear to maintain.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
BroadwayLion It is not on my layout. ROAR
ME THINKS IT SHOULD BE!
Picking the right signal to follow would be a challange
Paul D
N scale Washita and Santa Fe RailroadSouthern Oklahoma circa late 70's
I bet you wish it was a subway puzzle on your layout.
Could you imagine the nightmare of isolating those diamonds on a DCC layout?
Modeling B&O- Chessie Bob K. www.ssmrc.org
bogp40 I bet you wish it was a subway puzzle on your layout. Could you imagine the nightmare of isolating those diamonds on a DCC layout?
That's why Tam Valley invented the Frog Juicer - the CNJ Bronx Terminal layout that Tim Warris from Fast Tracks built has some pretty crazy diamonds in it and trying to figure out how to power them with switch machine contacts was well nigh impossible - and they HAD to be powered, the AGEIR boxcab doesn;t have a huge wheelbase, and speeds are VERY slow.
Next project for Tim - build the pictured tract arrangement - is that just a junction, or is there a station in the background that all those tracks converge on? There's a slightly less complex one that existed in the US I've seen pictures of, tracks crossing right through th emiddle of turnouts, and other tracks intersecting multiple parallel curves like that.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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You know, I've never been a fan of battery power. But if I were to model this, I think that's the way I would go.
Paul
rrinkeris that just a junction, or is there a station in the background that all those tracks converge on?
Remember the old adage 'carrying coals to Newcastle?' This is the arrangement of tracks that got all the rest of the coal there first... from all the various sources.
I second the opinion that, if modeling this, 'dead rail' would be orders of magnitude cheaper as well as much more reliable...
Question: For the smaller track pieces that (I'm guessing) require some curvature, did they have to heat and bend them to create the needed curvature, either onsite or at a shop?
Some other images:
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=newcastle+rail+crossing&FORM=HDRSC2
Modeling HO with a transition era UP bent
That track layout looks crazy complicated, but it is also beautiful.
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-Kevin
Living the dream.