HO Train Spiral.
HO Train Spiral.
(OP)
Just because it is cool to watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtc__nxtQSc
Then again, if they tripped the lead switch back into the spiral track ........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtc__nxtQSc
Then again, if they tripped the lead switch back into the spiral track ........





RE: HO Train Spiral.
RE: HO Train Spiral.
I like how the cars on the inner tracks seem to go by faster than the outer tracks... yet I know they are all traveling the same speed.
STF
RE: HO Train Spiral.
Bill
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Jimmy Carter
RE: HO Train Spiral.
The problem with sloppy work is that the supply FAR EXCEEDS the demand
RE: HO Train Spiral.
Step on, 15-30 minutes later, step off in front of the ride loading area. Sidewalk keeps going up and over to the beginning point.
Yes - You'd need a red "Stop button" for the entry point/exit point employee/attendant, but otherwise it'd be at a slow walking pace.
If nobody is in line, you walk down the moving sidewalk. If it stops in mid-route, it stops. People can keep walking to the ride instead of the parallel sidewalks they use now.
RE: HO Train Spiral.
That must've been put together with that bendy track since the normal turn sections wouldn't allow those subtle angle changes needed to nest the spirals.
Those are coal\hopper cars. You'd almost always require buried pushers. :)
If you are EVER in the area of Tehachapi California DO visit the Tehachapi Loop. It's less than a 10 minute drive off the side of the freeway. I cannot drive past that side trip ever since it's soooOOOO fascinating. You can drive right up to it, stand in the middle of it, sit above the tunnel entrances, as no one is around there ever. It's fascinatingly disorienting to have all the massive hardware moving in various directions around you. Trains come by every 15 or so minutes.
We watched a rolling oil pipeline go by once that 14 engines moving it!
Tehachapi Loop
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RE: HO Train Spiral.
May I suggest that you look into reading the short story "The Roads Must Roll", by Robert A. Hienlein, as it provides a detailed description of how you would go about building and operating such a 'transportation' scheme.
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RE: HO Train Spiral.
Bill
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"Why not the best?"
Jimmy Carter
RE: HO Train Spiral.
...and what happens when 1 belt in the middle comes to a stop...
STF
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RE: HO Train Spiral.
RE: HO Train Spiral.
My favorite Heinlein book is The Door Into Summer; the cat in the opening chapter is oddly similar to our present feline...he may not be looking for the door into summer, but he definitely doesn't like exiting the house on the windy side.
Two more sci-fi faves of mine: John D. MacDonald's "The Girl, The Gold Watch, And Everything" for its fascinating speculation on the elongation of time, and "More Than Human" by Theodore Sturgeon and Richard M. Powers for the way the whole of six supposed human miscreants becomes far greater than the sum of its parts.
CR
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