BATMANAre you a clockwise or anticlockwise kinda guy???
Interesting question. I have a double track - one in each direction and a loop to loop mountain line. Not much help their either except! ! I usually run both loops counter-clockwise. I thought that it was because the spurs work slightly better that way. Perhaps there is some hidden deep psychological meaning there instead? Probably not.
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...Or, try a figure 8.
Dave
Just be glad you don't have to press "2" for English.
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19 Years old, modeling the Cowlitz, Chehalis, and Cascade Railroad of Western Washington in 1927 in 6X6 feet.
When I was a teenager, my layout ran clockwise. But, that was because I had too many derailments when I went counter-clockwise. The grades were too steep. The track probably had kinks, too, and I didn't know how to tune up the turnout points to keep things on the track.
Now, I make sure everything runs both ways. Usually, I have one train on the passing siding going one way, and the train on the main line going the other, so it's just a matter of choosing which train I'm running to determine which direction around the layout they're going. The layout extension will have double-ended staging for the same reason, and a second reverse loop so I can easily have any train running in either direction, without awkward backing or, heaven forbid, resorting to the 5-fingered turntable.
You see, being able to run in both directions is a matter of pride now.
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Hamltnblue Mine run clockwise but I used to run counter clockwise. I'm considering going back to the Nascar direction of counter clockwise
Mine run clockwise but I used to run counter clockwise. I'm considering going back to the Nascar direction of counter clockwise
Left turns only?
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
On my layout we are a point to point-----hence I go out to the ends and back home----
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UncBob I have 2 ovals --one train in each direction
I have 2 ovals --one train in each direction
The balanced approach.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
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Never said I was a good driver!
Slip of the keyboard so to speak.
Not that left, your Military Left.
I hate Rust
cudaken 50% of the time the A line goes South and B goes North. But I do know where you are coming from. When I am in a store, I walk on the left side like I was driving.
50% of the time the A line goes South and B goes North. But I do know where you are coming from. When I am in a store, I walk on the left side like I was driving.
When I was visiting my fiancee in England, they drove on the left side of the road. But you live in St Louis?
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In the northern hemisphere it's clockwise. Down Under trains prefer running counter-clockwise.
Nelson
Ex-Southern 385 Being Hoisted
steemtraynA point - to - point layout is the only cure.
A point - to - point layout is the only cure.
I thought of that. But then will my turntables turn clockwise or ?????.
Today I was running trains on the layout and to be a little different I thought I would run them in the opposite direction than I usually do. I ran them clockwise. For some reason, as always, it kinda bugged me to run them in the opposite direction than I usually do. I got to thinking back to all the layouts I have had in my life and I remembered that with every one of them I mostly ran the trains anticlockwise. Even with the larger layout I have now, where I sit in the middle of the room and they run all around me, essentially they still run anticlockwise. I am the kind of person that hates routine and loves change but for some reason this ones got me. My question is why does my brain care what direction my trains travel in and do you always run your trains in the same direction? Are you a clockwise or anticlockwise kinda guy???
I think I need a hobby.