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 Joined: 26/05/2021(UTC) Posts: 198 Location: Australia, East Maitland, NSW
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What is the minimum desirable spacing between straight C-track? Could the roadbeds of adjacent tracks touch or, in other words, is there much/any Marklin rolling stock that is wider than the base of C-track?
Thinking here of hidden storage tracks and getting the maximum into a small space.
Yes, there would be clearance issues entering and leaving the parallel sidings and some severely hacked track pieces ... but if they don't sell it, you've got make it.
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According to MOROP, the European association that federates national associations of railroad and model railroad enthusiasts, the distances between straight standard H0 gauge tracks - measured from track centre to track centre - should not fall below the following values: open track: 46 mm yards: 52 mm Source (see point #2): https://www.morop.org/do...oads/nem/de/nem112_d.pdf |
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Originally Posted by: Alsterstreek  According to MOROP, the European association that federates national associations of railroad and model railroad enthusiasts, the distances between straight standard H0 gauge tracks - measured from track centre to track centre - should not fall below the following values: open track: 46 mm yards: 52 mm Source (see point #2): https://www.morop.org/do...oads/nem/de/nem112_d.pdf Thanks Ak, Centre to centre distance of two C-track straights pushed together is 40mm. The rolling stock envelope specified in NEM 301 is 40mm (kinematic for new stuff, static for old stuff). So 46mm should pretty much ensure 6mm clearance between rolling stock IF your rolling stock is compliant. https://morop.org/images...NEM_E/nem301_en_2018.pdf
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Special Hosenträger variations  See post #320 for red track "2417x" |
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Large version with no R1. Don't know how to attach a scarm file as an image, sorry.  Large Hosentrager.pdf (106kb) downloaded 65 time(s). |
Modeling Immensee, mile/km 0 on the Gottard. SBB Era V.
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4 short sidings with alternatives - Some ideas borrowed from this topic Sidings geometry.Posted by Alex H  Next two images posted by PacoM   Kimball |
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Mental game on 110x190 cm.  |
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Originally Posted by: Alsterstreek Mental game on 110x190 cm.
Now try the exercise of interlocking all those diamond crossings ... 
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... and on 94x174 cm.  3.5% incline & defused S-curves.  |
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I think you bypassed the exercise request.
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Modeling Immensee, mile/km 0 on the Gottard. SBB Era V.
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There, it works perfectly with one train at a time.   |
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Originally Posted by: Alsterstreek Mental game on 110x190 cm. It’s the smallest single line, single level folded dog-bone. |
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Maybe these have been posted before?  |
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Joined: 07/02/2008(UTC) Posts: 198 Location: Lindome, Sweden
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The most forgotten track piece is 24001. End your stub track short.    |
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Roundhouse pretzel   When the bridge is in the right position you can use it as a loop for turning the direction of a train. |
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Think that would only work in one direction - running anti-clockwise to clockwise.
Because if you were running a train clockwise, to reverse the direction of it,
you would use the diagonal (top left-bottom right) to reverse the direction.
And then, after that, if you used the turntable as suggested, you'd be back to running clockwise again.
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