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    Re: Permanent outdoor train —James Powell
    (...) Eric, is this hard earned experence? Please, share the details. I'd think that they would be OK outside...what happenes? do they rust? I don't think that they'd melt/distort too much over a year or so...Anyone got any real experence? All that (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
   
        Re: Permanent outdoor train —Eric Brok
    James Powell wrote in message ... (...) over (...) Sorry, no actual experience. I just *expect* them to rust from rain and distort from sun heat. If you don't care wasting your track over a year or so it may do ofcourse. Eric (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
   
        Re: Permanent outdoor train —John Neal
     You could do what LL USA did-- lay your own track. Make it the same gauge as 9v, and use O scale rails. Points might get tricky, but I think that would be the way to go. -John (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
    
         Purity and Re: Permanent outdoor train —Tom McDonald
     I'm sure this has been brought up before, but this brings up an important point: is anything/method that any LL does to display a model considered "pure"? It seems unlikely that in laying track in LL Carlsbad that TLG actually made track but rather (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
    
         Re: Purity and Re: Permanent outdoor train —David VinZant
     (...) be (...) no (...) On thing that might deture you from using your LEGO trains outside. Is that the motor might get gunked up. In other words get a lot of dirt in the motor. If you look this site (URL) it mentions that they used 12v trains but (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Permanent outdoor train —Tony Priestman
   In article <FEEoGy.50y@lugnet.com>, Eric Brok <brok@fcjsvc.hvu.nl> writes (...) I also have no experience of outdoor models, but I think the main problem is the plastic, and the rail joints. The plastic will suffer in the sun, and the joints will be (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
   
        Re: Permanent outdoor train —Dan Parker
   (...) from PNLTC's show experience, I can attest that one can operate with loops of 90 feet or more using one set of track leads -- all with no noticeable drop in performance. Does this qualify as a "horse's mouth" answer? :) dan parker, PNLTC (25 years ago, 11-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
   
        Re: Permanent outdoor train —Frank Filz
    Dan Parker wrote in message ... (...) of (...) in (...) Hm, that's interesting, because I had noticed trains slowing down on the other side of my 4'x6' table. But maybe I'm imagining things, or maybe it's not level enough. Was that with a single (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
   
        Re: Permanent outdoor train —Larry Pieniazek
   (...) I have to side with Frank on this one... run a 25 car train with 2 2 motor engines and you will see a speed drop on the far side of a 20 foot loop. (see my apt pictures to see the layout I'm talking about, it's not that big). Perhaps PNLTC is (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
   
        Re: Permanent outdoor train —Tony Priestman
   In article <378946E9.C506EA83@v...ager.net>, Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> writes (...) Yes. My model railway experience was that multiple feeds work better. And with outdoor (semi)permanent track there are other factors, such as the (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
 

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