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Re: Technic train truss bridge
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lugnet.build
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Mon, 5 Jun 2000 03:13:48 GMT
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In lugnet.build, James Powell writes:
I LOVE it when James slips up, it's so infrequent!
> It does call out to me as "train" trestle (North American, but still...) It
> has all the right bits to be what you are saying it is, and it is elegent.
It's very "train" indeed (1)... but not at all a trestle.
It's a truss bridge, a through truss to be precise. Trestles typically don't
have clear spans of any great length, they're all bents and stringers.
1 - the action shot with the train whizzing through really highlights the
"train-ness" of it
++Lar
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| (...) It does call out to me as "train" trestle (North American, but still...) It has all the right bits to be what you are saying it is, and it is elegent. James P (24 years ago, 4-Jun-00, to lugnet.build)
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