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Hi all, I just posted pics of an interesting vehicle I am hoping to build. It is a special rail-mounted vehicle for picking up and moving the giant radio antennas of the Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope in New Mexico. The pics are at (URL) (...) (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Do you mean 2 pairs (4 tracks, 8 rails) or just 4 rails (2 tracks, or 1 pair of tracks)??? The picture only shows 1 pair of tracks (in each direction... there's another pair running the other way) Neat device, thanks for sharing! (...) (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Neat device Roy! Just for a sense of scale, I dug up this pic: (URL) another pic showing a larger section of the track arrangement: (URL) (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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I thought we had someone on .trains from sunny New Mexico? James... you holding out on us? :) Now that would take a large layout, a lot of tan base plates, and a ton of UFO sections for the antennas! SteveB (...) (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yeah, I'm holding out: saw it, built it, done that; all to 1:1 scale ;-) I must say, I've never thought of modelling the VLA antenna array. Great idea, Roy. The VLA is located about 45 to 50 miles from where I live. (...) Wheh! More power to (...) (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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I meant two pairs of rails, or two tracks (if 1 track=2 rails). Roy (...) (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Whoa, that's pretty neat there. A tiny machine like that could lift such a large piece of equipment? Incredible, remarkable... -Harvey (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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