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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by SpaceMouse This is from a post I did for GDS. Suppose that you want to set off a car in your upper right hand siding. Right now, your engince can pull the car in, but not be able to get the engine out without backing the car out. With a runaround you can pull the train onto the track right next to the red track I drew in on the left. You diconnect the train at the coupler directly in front of the car you want to drop off. The front part of the train pulls a head and backs int the siding and back onto the main to position itself in the back of the train. The engine then moves forward pushing the car into the side where it can disconect, thereby leaving the car. It then pulls the train back on to the main adjacent the siding, disconnects the engine from the rear of the train. The engine (and cars) then runs around and positions itself in front of the train and reconnects. [img]http://www.vitaconnect.com/Photos/gds01.jpg[/img] The same type action happens near the yard. Then engine drops of the train on the main and uses the siding to get behind the train. It can then drop the cars (classifies them) in the appropriate classification track. If they are all mixed up, this will result in the train backing out and changing tracks quite a bit to get them sorted. [/quote] Chip I'm sorry but I dont follow at all. [:(] [D)] I searched through John Armstrongs book but haven't found anything yet that helps explain it to me either... Maybe another try? Coyote
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