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  2. Wooden toy train - Wikipedia

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    Beside it a Thomas the Tank Engine version with indicated sleepers followed by a Tesco variant with inserted connector. On the far right is a track from Brio made entirely of fine grained beechwood. Wooden toy trains are toy trains that run on a wooden track system with grooves to guide the wheels of the rolling stock.

  3. Inglenook Sidings - Wikipedia

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    Inglenook Sidings, created by Alan Wright (1928 - January 2005), is a model railway train shunting puzzle.It consists of a specific track layout, a set of initial conditions, a defined goal, and rules which must be obeyed while performing the shunting operations.

  4. Model railroad layout - Wikipedia

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    Micro 'pizza layout' with 9 mm gauge track in 7 mm scale (09 scale) An important aspect of any model railway is the layout of the track itself. Apart from the stations, there are four basic ways of arranging the track, and innumerable variations: Continuous loop. A circle or oval, with trains going round and round. Used in train sets. Point to ...

  5. Brio (company) - Wikipedia

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    Brio (stylized BRIO) is a wooden toy company founded in Sweden. The company was founded in the small town of Boalt, Scania , Götaland in 1884 by basket maker Ivar Bengtsson. [ 1 ] For a long time the company was based in Osby , Scania, in southern Sweden.

  6. Thomas & Friends merchandise - Wikipedia

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    The engines were made smaller to cut production costs, and the track system was rendered incompatible with the standard wooden track design without the use of adaptors. For a brief time the toys were half-painted, leaving exposed wood in many sections, again to cut production costs.

  7. Category:Railway track layouts - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Help ... Pages in category "Railway track layouts"

  8. Track geometry - Wikipedia

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    In track geometry, the horizontal layout involves the layout of three main track types: tangent track (straight line), curved track, and track transition curve (also called transition spiral or spiral) which connects between a tangent and a curved track. Curved track can also be categorized into three types.

  9. Fiddle yard - Wikipedia

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    A simple fiddle yard with three sidings. The track at the bottom goes to the scenic section of the layout. A fiddle yard or staging yard is a collection of model railway tracks that are hidden from view and allow trains to be stored and manipulated by the operators.