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Re: Mark Bellis's trains
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lugnet.loc.uk
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Tue, 12 Aug 2003 22:58:20 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.uk, Ian Bishop wrote:
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> Anyway, on to the reason for the post; the question is, can Mark's Co-Co
> locos navigate Lego curves?! At the moment my 56's bogies are rigid and I
> doubt if it would go round corners. I wondered if Mark had tackled this
> problem?
Hopefully, Mark's reading and will reply as well, but yes, his trains work
on curves, as they have to for points, etc.
He inserts straights between curved pieces to increase the radius, but a
LEGO curved track is a LEGO curved track...
He has a cunning technique for getting large bogies round tight corners, but
I'll leave it to him to describe it!
Tony
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| (...) The maximum wheel centre distance for a rigid Co bogie is 6 studs (as seen on 7745 train set or any 12 Volt motor with its extra wheels). I articulate the wheels on the bogies and hide them with the frames. The diesel locos requiring (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-03, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| Tony / Mark, I loved Mark's 8-wide trains, so much so that it spurred me on to rebuild my (relatively) poor attempt at a triple-grey railfreight liveried class 56 with aggregates sub-sector branding. I used my OO guage Mainline model for the (...) (21 years ago, 11-Aug-03, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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