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Re: Have you seen these pictures? Bridge of 5.15 m length....
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 4 Dec 2001 12:48:34 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, John Gerlach writes:
> 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.
>
> 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
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> 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.
3 3/4 cars = 3.75x32 Studs (couplings included) = 5 triangles = 120 Studs
That means each triangle is 24 studs long...
> 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.
the 2.5 are estimated and the 50 studs are in fact more than 60...
> 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.
Each yellow part is 96 cm as demonstrated above: 5.15 minus 2x0.96 =?3,23 m?
That is impossible. So the 5.15 cannot include both yellow bridges, or the bow
would become very small....
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> So the single span itself isn't quite 5.15 m, it's "only" 4 m - still a VERY
> impressive piece of LEGO engineering!!
It is in fact 5.15, wich can be recognised if you count the monorail track
pieces: there are 20 sections of monorail: each is 32 studs long. Makes 640
studs total length which is 5.12 meters.
> And yea, I'm a huge geek to be spending time analyzing these pictures, but
> most of you already knew that! ;-)
You really bluffed me for a few days. I was not too sure about the real length,
till a friend of mine told about the length of the monorail track pieces (a
part which I never owned).
Kind regards,
Ben
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