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Cermak		#1 Posted : 24 January 2021 11:38:36(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 24/01/2021(UTC) Posts: 10 Location: Lost in very deep space...		Hello Happy Members ! I'm very happy to be a new member of this great community. Anyway, I have a weird question : has anyone ever built this kind of layout with C track? Many thanks in advance for all your replies.
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Alsterstreek		#2 Posted : 24 January 2021 16:58:05(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 16/11/2011(UTC) Posts: 6,064 Location: Hybrid Home		Basically you need to expand the below wye by replacing the simple 24611 turnouts by 2462x double slip turnouts: Image credit: Forum member Kimballthurlow
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Cermak		#3 Posted : 24 January 2021 17:49:35(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 24/01/2021(UTC) Posts: 10 Location: Lost in very deep space...		Got it !
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DaleSchultz		#4 Posted : 24 January 2021 19:27:49(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 10/02/2006(UTC) Posts: 4,051 Location: In the process of moving to the UK		I name this: The kamikaze topology.
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Dreadnought		#5 Posted : 24 January 2021 21:23:43(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 24/12/2008(UTC) Posts: 432 Location: Niagara, Ontario		About ten or more years ago one of the forum members, "Zorra La Rousse" used to make up carpet barns like this. If I recall she did a three or four leaf clover. They were very clever. I am not sure if they are still somewhere on the forum.
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Alsterstreek		#6 Posted : 25 January 2021 11:28:38(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 16/11/2011(UTC) Posts: 6,064 Location: Hybrid Home		And several years ago a member from Venezuela posted ambitious kamikaze track plans, for example replicating the Olympic symbol consisting of five interlaced rings of equal dimensions. Corrigendum: It was Yisus from Chile. Edited by user 25 August 2025 12:29:25(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified
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Cermak		#7 Posted : 25 January 2021 18:07:21(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 24/01/2021(UTC) Posts: 10 Location: Lost in very deep space...		Originally Posted by: DaleSchultz I name this: The kamikaze topology. Banzai !
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Jimmy Thompson		#8 Posted : 14 July 2025 01:41:23(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 26/03/2019(UTC) Posts: 898 Location: Florida Classic but Successful Swampland City		Quote: Dreadnaught wrote: "About ten or more years ago one of the forum members, "Zorra La Rousse" used to make up carpet bahns like this. If I recall she did a three or four leaf clover. They were very clever. I am not sure if they are still somewhere on the forum." I actually came across it. It is from 2006 and the pictures are gone, but the text remains. It also appears that she got the idea originally from Henrik @hxmiesa https://www.marklin-users.net/fo...ora----Temporary-trifoil Quote: Zora wrote: "Some panic at the signalbox, with trains coming from three directions." Yep. That signal box goes right in the center of the action!
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Jimmy Thompson		#9 Posted : 14 July 2025 14:06:18(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 26/03/2019(UTC) Posts: 898 Location: Florida Classic but Successful Swampland City		And here is the thread with the "Olympic Rings" set-up (from 2014) mentioned by Alsterstreek...(near the end of the thread Post #37) https://www.marklin-users.net/fo...Designing-a-reverse-loop
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Jimmy Thompson		#10 Posted : 14 July 2025 18:11:53(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 26/03/2019(UTC) Posts: 898 Location: Florida Classic but Successful Swampland City		Well, as fate would have it, and "Kismet" and "Serendipity", I found this (Sept 2006 Post #202; note also #210)... https://www.marklin-users.net/fo...k----NYC--Highline/page5 Quote: Hans Martin @hmsfix wrote: Hi John, I had still another layout idea for you, a quite old idea in fact: the trefoil railroad. I only know the track plan with K tracks. Perhaps someone can make a plan with C track. Umm, this would be a nice Quiz question, it's a little more tricky than this one. Quite a lot of interest in this little bit o'er the years! Edited by user 15 July 2025 01:50:48(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified
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Jimmy Thompson		#11 Posted : 25 August 2025 12:08:40(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 26/03/2019(UTC) Posts: 898 Location: Florida Classic but Successful Swampland City		Here is another "take" on the tri-foil form...although not Mutti M, it does show that the idea has "been around" - "1950" Page 8, Figure 18 - although it might be a bit of a challenge to recreate this with Märklin track...one could "custom build" those 90° crossings... and check out the Quatrefoil in Figure 16 https://www.conradantiquario.de/...hmann-1950-nachtrag.html (I was not sure how to clip a pic of the layout plan , so I had to link in to conradantiquario)
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Alsterstreek		#12 Posted : 25 August 2025 12:24:03(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 16/11/2011(UTC) Posts: 6,064 Location: Hybrid Home		Originally Posted by: Jimmy Thompson And here is the thread with the "Olympic Rings" set-up (from 2014) mentioned by Alsterstreek...(near the end of the thread Post #37) https://www.marklin-users.net/fo...Designing-a-reverse-loop Ah, yes, thank you for digging up Yisus' Olympic rings. I knew I had seen them somewhere before...: https://www.marklin-user...-reverse-loop#post462176
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Jimmy Thompson		#13 Posted : 25 August 2025 14:09:19(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 26/03/2019(UTC) Posts: 898 Location: Florida Classic but Successful Swampland City		You are quite welcome! Sometimes my little crusades through the vast archives do turn up a gem or two!!
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