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Re: First draft of the Lego-Modular Train layout standards posted..
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org
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Thu, 30 Mar 2000 17:54:55 GMT
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And the BayLTC layout will be using the upper height exclusively, as our
layout will include the optional low track at 4 bricks+1 plate.
JIG: Where the heck did you guys get THAT MANY small black and gray plates?
I can't imagine how I am going to put the road ballast on my entire layout,
so I will start in one area and slowly work my way across as I add to my
collection, but that is a tremendous amount of plates. Sure, Conan has a
huge collection, but still, that seems a high number of plates to have even
in such a large collection, unless you bought heavily in certain sets that
had the parts you needed.
Mike
John Gerlach <john.gerlach@bestbuy.nospam.com> wrote in message
news:Fs8wuu.CFu@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.trains, Stephen F. Roberts writes:
> > ...We are using table top layouts based loosely on the PNLTC standard. An
> > observation I have is using incremental brick heights between the two
> > different table heights. PNLTC (and WAMALUG) use 36 5/8" as 'ground • level'
> > while the proposed standard uses 29 3/4" + 10 bricks as ground level (33
> > 11/16"). That's nearly 8 bricks difference (1 brick ~1 cm), and
> > unfortunately, this does not come out to a clean number of bricks so it • would
> > be exceedingly difficult to marry the two together in a pure fashion.
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> There are two 'standard' heights:
> 29 3/4" table + baseplate + 10 bricks + 1 plate
> 29 3/4" table + baseplate + 22 bricks + 1 plate
> (extra plate is used to represent 'ballast' under the tracks)
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> The higher one should be close to PNLTC / WAMALUG table height, or at • least
> closer than the lower one.
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> The proposed GMLTC layout will have both heights, so if someday we do a • show
> with another club we should be able to work our layouts together...
>
> JohnG, GMLTC
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