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Subject:	Longest train, eh? (was: Two Easy Questions about Rolling Stock)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.trains
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Date:	Thu, 31 Jan 2002 18:05:24 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes: > http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~rbeneke/lego/fgltc/fgltc5.html Back onto the topic of trains, one of the images here shows a bunch of beer cars being pulled along a track. The accompanying text states: "Later a second world record was reached, when the train was prolonged by 18 further yellow tipper waggons. This was definitely the longest pulled Lego®-train ever, maybe even the longest Lego® train ever put on the track!" It *might* be the longest ever, but "definitely" is a strong word. At the Seattle Center House in August 2000 (a couple of months before this), PNLTC was running a train that was at least 150 feet long. I don't have a car count, but close to half of the train was made up of 16-long hoppers. It never made it all the way around the track without decoupling, but we did get a run or two where it went at least its own length. I doubt there were very many stock Lego cars on it, though, and there may not have been any. We didn't register this train officially (with Guinness) for "longest train" because we wanted to do that with a train that could consistently make it all the way around the outer loop. In the end, we registered a train with well under half the total cars. Notes to those who've never done a truly huge train: * As Ben mentioned, multiple steady hands on multiple regulators is key. Our track wasn't really designed very well for the purpose of a train this size, and our regulators weren't evenly spaced. As a result, the train would surge in various places and decouple. * If you want to use stock magnetic couplers, that is your limiting factor. And just tossing in more locomotives in various places doesn't fully fix this problem, because if the pushing/pulling power to the cars isn't distributed properly then the couplers "buckle" on turns. -- Tony Hafner www.hafhead.com www.pnltc.org

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		Re: Longest train, eh? (was: Two Easy Questions about Rolling Stock)
(...) Ya, for those wossies who use more than 1 motor, it is needed. For those of us who restrain ourselves to a single motor, one controller is fine :) (...) I'd agree. At 90+ cars, the only way with a single motor was to "pick up" (or, in (...) (23 years ago, 1-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)

		Re: Longest train, eh? (was: Two Easy Questions about Rolling Stock)
(...) Ok, I will change that text: it is obviously wrong - my mistake. But in real life speed records with trains have to be made in both directions and for long Lego train records, I am of the opinion that a record should only count if the long (...) (23 years ago, 1-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)

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		Re: Two Easy Questions about Rolling Stock
(...) (URL) last picture..) Ben (23 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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