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Re: Permanent outdoor train
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 5 Jul 1999 22:42:40 GMT
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johnneal@uswest.=avoidspam=net
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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
Eric Brok wrote:
> James Powell wrote in message ...
> >
> > >
> > > LEGO tracks are not fit for outside usage and as far as I know there is no
> > > standard gauge close enough to use instead. Duplo trains will do better
> > > though :-)
> >
> >
> > Eric, is this hard earned experence?
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> > 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?
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> 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
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| 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)
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| | Re: Permanent outdoor train
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| 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)
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