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Sunday, 4 December 2011

Keep going until you hit the jackpot

Isaac persevered with the track in the previous two posts. Finally deciding that a bridge would be the answer. What he came up with was quite stunning.

I love the criss crossing route that snakes around until eventually the train can go up and over the bridge. Once over you have the choice to rest is siding while the adrenalin rush subsides or do the whole thing over again. Maybe Isaac should design amusement park rides.

The great thing is this route can be done in reverse with the bridge fist, but taking the route that way gives new options not available to trains travelling in the opposite direction. In fact for the real adrenalin junkies you can loop back on yourself and do the bridge twice. how cool is that?

If at first you don't succeed

Remember yesterday's track? Well this was Isaac's attempt at an improvement. The problem was that he didn't really solve the problem he had yesterday. He did add a level crossing into the middle of the loop, but you still had to reverse you train to return to the sidings. But the siding loops have become a wonderful arrangement with the addition of a bridge and a second siding.

Maybe, like many of us, Isaac doesn't want to tackle the real problems and gets busy working in the things that work anyway.