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Re: Train history for Brickfest 2002
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lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.trains
Date: 
Sun, 9 Dec 2001 00:38:57 GMT
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In lugnet.events.brickfest, Frank Filz writes:
...
Hmm, one thing which would
be neat, a monorail spiral like Cary's to traverse from the train layout
height down to the floor...

Frank

OK, I'm up for the challenge. Chris, can you figure out how many bricks it
is from the floor to the height of your monorail on the tabletop, give or
take a few? My spiral is around 12 bricks high per loop, so I figure
somewhere from 9 to 11 loops. I'll mock it up at home to see if I can really
make something that big work.

I probably don't have enough supports to loop down to the floor and back up
to the tabletop, though.

Cary



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  Re: Train history for Brickfest 2002
 
(...) Cary,at this past years brickfest we used wamalugs tables...if we can get a height from them i'm sure we can get something close.Someone mentioned a spiral....at the last BF Troy C,Ken C. and myself built a spiral from a stage to the floor (...) (23 years ago, 9-Dec-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.trains)

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  Re: Train history for Brickfest 2002
 
(...) I was thinking of the stuff you were setting up when I thought about this. If a bunch of us with large monorail collections all bring our collection, we could have an amazing setup. Hmm, one thing which would be neat, a monorail spiral like (...) (23 years ago, 8-Dec-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.trains)

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