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Re: My Santa Fe Train Kit Theories
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 10 Oct 2002 15:50:31 GMT
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James Powell wrote:
> The short answer is that it doesn't matter. As long as you pick a
> reasonable figure per inch of car, then they should track reasonably well.
> The heavier the cars, the less likely they are to derail (all other things
> being equal). But, the more TE required to pull them, requiring more
> motors. I have never run into big problems with lego cars except on very
> long trains (~50 cars and more), when light (IE piggyback cars made from the
> drop center plates) tend to derail on the corners. At more typical train
> sizes (5-20 cars), I haven't had problems, but I tend towards smaller cars
> than some other people here (Hi Larry, yep, its Eurotrash!).
Euro-trash? Care to explain?? :D
As for weight... one weight brick per 9v engine block seems to work fine
for me. I refitted my 7760 with a 9v block and it ran great, a LOT
stronger than my 4563 engine. After fitting the 4563 with one weight
brick, difference became a lot smaller.
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| (...) [snip] (...) I have another trick to improve your engines/motors. If you take a close look at the motor wheels you see there are small round rubber bands. You can exchange the original ones against the rubberbands used in the Lego bicycles. (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Figure for steel wheels/steel rail is that you can get 1/4th the weight on drivers as TE. More for a modern DE loco with anti-slip and AC motors (more like 1/3rd). As regards traction tyres, no, we don't need them. What is there should work (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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