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Re: Have you seen these pictures? Bridge of 5.15 m length....
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Thu, 29 Nov 2001 22:23:26 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
> Ben(ny) Efde and Marco (from Leeuwarden/NL) have done a new record of a
> (100% pure) Lego®-train bridge which they have presented at their train show
> in Leeuwarden last weekend.
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=87382
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=8607
I spent some time comparing these two pictures:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=87390 and
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=87382
It looks like each triangle in the yellow truss is about 20 studs long -
each 7740 car is built on a 28 stud train base. Compare the length of each
yellow truss triangle with the arch bridge triangles, they look to be about
2.5 times as long - 50 studs. Ten triangles on the arch at 50 studs each is
500 studs, or 10.4 grey baseplates. For those of use who don't count by
tens, that is 156.25 inches, or just a shade under 4 meters for those of you
who *do* count by tens. <grin>
So the arch itself is around 4 meters long, the yellow truss sections on
each end bring the length up to 5.15 meters.
So the single span itself isn't quite 5.15 m, it's "only" 4 m - still a VERY
impressive piece of LEGO engineering!!
And yea, I'm a huge geek to be spending time analyzing these pictures, but
most of you already knew that! ;-)
JohnG, GMLTC
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| Hi Folks! Ben(ny) Efde and Marco (from Leeuwarden/NL) have done a new record of a (100% pure) Lego®-train bridge which they have presented at their train show in Leeuwarden last weekend. (URL) it seemed to have been a show of a big variaty of 12V (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains)
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