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Re: PNLTC breaks guiness record!
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 25 Aug 2000 18:12:57 GMT
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Clarifying the train, length, configuration, and other details...
track length was 3343 ft, not 3232 as originally posted. This smaller number
was the uncalibrated value from the LEGO odometer. As far as an equivalent
number of official meters, I defer to your official calculator as I didn't
make the conversion. We'll need to review the video but I recall the long run
train was a 4565-styled locomotive pulling 2 boxcars in PNLTC livery. Speed
of the train was not a constant just it rarely is for actual trains (records
are simply how long it takes to get from one place to another).
For the Longest Train record, we ran a loco on point, another buried in the
middle, and a pusher. We restricted running to a plain concentric loop,
naturally. Freightcars were of many standard forms.
Digressing, the 'GBWR'-lettered train was too heavy and had an odd coupling
arrangement. It only ran on a smaller oval when that track wasn't being used
for the main record. Furthermore, it would not have been possible to run the
Ambassador train (or many consists, for that matter) due to mechanical
shortcomings in many of the cars (non-standardization, non-train wheel
mountings, etc.).
[from the 1992 article]TLG received a request from organizers of the annual
activity weekend for youth in Billund run by the College of Further Education,
the Music School, and the Billund Center
WE only used about half of the monorail track we amassed. For some reason, we
either ran out of time, energy, or space. ;)
I'll try to get the '92 article scanned locally.
d
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| (...) Ah <light turning on above head> So THAT's why there wasn't much in the way of engines and cars compared to the amount of track. I had understood that the object was to make the longest TRAIN, which was why each club sent a car, and such a (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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