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(...) Inland navigable water systems have to have some method of changing level, which usually means locks (there are other methods, but they are less common). Water going downhill tends to get a bit too exciting for reliable passenger or freight (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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Instead of developing a lock plate with a fixed width, why not create a 'bluff' plate--the equivalent of one of the proposed lock plates, but cut in half lengthwise. A builder could stick any number of flat baseplates between two halves and create (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) Ie (...) "Mississippi." (...) Don't get me started with British-scale industry. They made the clearance rate for their railroads too small to handle more sizely loads. They will never see a double-stack (DTTX) container well car, unless it's (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) Ie (...) That said some ideas for new X-trem team sets could have a waterfall? (...) Perhaps we could have a lock plate at the upper end of 'canal' built using the theme? The problem is then how you suppourt the uuper plates? or produce a (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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Okay, so if we do build canals, what are yours gonna be like?? I've been wanting to build one since the working lego ones i saw at legoland, but who has the grey bricks to do the side walls?? Or, would you guys mae it like a trench in a lego layuout (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) discussion, (...) See my other post for my sugestion, even if it is a totally non-pure solution. (...) Yep. Ontario has Trent-Severn, and Rideau. Also, the seaway, with the major locks being at Port Welland (near Niagara Falls...hence the (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) My idea was to have baseplates with a flatened portion to be the canal rather like the roads have a road portion- Problem. - Cant have actual floating boats. However there are a number of other ways 2 nd soloution - Have a trench to float the (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) A cool element would be a 16x16x4 part which is intended to support a baseplate. 4 of them of course would be used to support a 32x32 baseplate. The part would have a flat top (but it could be lacy to reduce weight, it just needs to be strong (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) you mean something like ---...--- |00|\ /|00| |00| \ / |OO| |-- |--| .... 00 00 is a 2x2 tubed section... Agree with you about needing interlocking. - Actaully perhaps 16X16X3 might be better. Then you could use it other purposes. But I think (...) (24 years ago, 17-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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I made an elevated platform that has 2 space landing plates on top of a brick frame work. I set the plates right on the studs though. This makes the baseplates perfectly even with normal plates around the baseplates. Maybe I should take a picture. (...) (24 years ago, 17-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) The (...) I'm confused as to whether this is a top view or side view. (...) You're right, 3 high is the correct height to make them. That, or a multiple thereof, is the step height on most (all?) of the raised baseplates. Interlocking will (...) (24 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) top (...) at (...) There (...) Meant to be view from the bottom and I admit it's not very good! I am at present working on a differnet idea regarding pillar suppourts. L-CADing in progress. (...) be (...) ITSOIDKS (I Think so , I don't know (...) (24 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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"Stephen A. Campbell" wrote: <snip> (...) Did anyone else see the article on CargoLifter that appeared in Wired: (URL) would be quite a Lego project....would take a lot of bricks :) -- Thomas Main main@appstate.edu (24 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) or "Freight Mover" theme. I know there are a lot of cargo sets out now but they fall under the general Town umbrella. What I would like to see is a unifying theme where sets like 6542 Launch and Load Seaport are tweaked into a giant (...) (24 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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