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Re: PNLTC breaks guiness record!
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 23 Aug 2000 17:08:36 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, David VinZant writes:
> The Pacific Northwest Lego Train Club has just broken the Guiness
> Record for the longest LEGO train Layout - 3232 feet, or 7752 pieces
> of track crossed.
> Ben Fleskes
> PNLTC
I'm presuming Ben / David means 7752 pieces of track connected?
In lugnet.trains, Tony Hafner writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Kevin Loch writes:
> > What did you use to power the track? Experience shows that a
> > standard LEGO train regulator wouldn't do the job. How does that
> > affect the record qualifications?
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> We actually used pure LEGO. There were multiple regulators, each
> connected to the track at multiple points. The tricky part is to
> make sure they are all set in the same direction and getting the
> right amount of juice.
I'm very interested in the technical details of this project.
How many motors and how far apart were they spaced? How did you
keep it from pulling off the corners? If the food-court section
was, say, 100', that means the track loops back on itself three
dozen times. Even if a single engine had enough power and traction,
the cars would just pull off on the corners. Did you just set all
the controllers to 1/4 speed or something? Was there a current
meter on the main feed? Did you need multiple circuits? ie. Did
it exceed 10-15 Amps? When you say the record was broken - what
was the old record? Was there one - presumably by TLC - or did
this establish the record for the first time? Are answers to
these and other questions going to be posted on the web-site?
Details man - I need details. :-)
SRC
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| (...) Connected and crossed by a train. I think the record requires both that the track be contiguous and formed into a layout, and that a train of some sort traverse it. (...) The train itself I don't think was all that long! 6-8 cars with the (...) (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) We actually used pure LEGO. There were multiple regulators, each connected to the track at multiple points. The tricky part is to make sure they are all set in the same direction and getting the right amount of juice. -- Tony Hafner Very new (...) (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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