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(...) Woohoo! :) The mountain as it currently stands is here: (URL) is not to say that it can't change, but that's currently got clearance for all the tracks, and the track sections end exactly on the baseplate lines, which will make it easy to move (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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(...) He's still checking on the height (and strength) of the blue barriers, but the overall plan is A-OK. 8-) I will now make a more detailed layout plan and get the town dimensions to James as soon as I can. SRC StRuCtures (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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(...) I'd say a subset of gluing, but what about the electrical tape... :-) SRC StRuCtures (24 years ago, 20-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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(...) It involves cutting but no gluing or painting! How about soldering--is that a fourth deadly sin, a subset of gluing (joining?), or is it just venial? Peter (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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(...) A problem we encountered with wiring was wire length. Because we did not have enough long (Mindstorms) wires we had to place controllers in inconvienent places. If you are not a 100% purist you should consider making some long exteneders. Some (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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(...) I thought there was rule that at some point on the layout the trains had to cross over each other. ;-) The layout we are working on has a climb into a mountain, where a ski resort will be and three tunnels to provide transaction from scene to (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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(...) I assure you, the GMLTC thinks in three dimensions. The layout we're working on now will have trains running at least four different heights, and maybe five if we can squeeze one more into the design... We try to put "interesting" things at (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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(...) I think in 3 dimensions too but on a plywooder layout with no terrain, a bunch of ramps and bridges tend to make things look more toylike unless there is some clear justification for the bridges (to cross over another line for a plausible (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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(...) <snip> (...) Quite right - as you should. Are we the only two here (now that Matt isn't around much) who think (of train layouts) in three dimensions? 8-) (...) I was planning to use multiple gapped controllers at Supertrain2001, but hadn't (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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SRC wrote in message ... (...) Floorplan looks great. Looks like we can fit in two or more loops. :-] Good arrangement of tables as well. What are the dimensions? Idea: Make a track designer template containing only the tables and send it to the (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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(...) Cool. (...) Cool. Even if the blue isn't too high to see over, I think it's OK. As long as it's too high to "accidently" walk over, or push closer, I'm OK. :) James (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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(...) Yes I've got the over-all plan much the way I want it, (I'm going to incorporate Michel's idea's as possible) and plan to leave the town area entirely up to you - I'll have something more specific soon. I also just heard back - As I suspected, (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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(...) I must have been low on coffee to miss this opportunity the other day... Isn't it all just water under the bridge? <GD&R> (...) Keep in mind that if we want to run absolutely everything, we need 16 height clearance on the car loader, and (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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(...) Looks like a plan to me. Do you want me to work on some track plans, or have you already got a good idea of the layout? It would be very cool if the town area doesn't need to have 4 tracks in front of it... it doesn't seem like much, but that (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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(...) Quite right - I've got it "covered". ;-) (...) I think you were actually. :-) My original premise was that the bridge was crossing over the cross-over tracks in a larger scale update of my favorite train LEGO train cover photo from the 60's. (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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(...) From what I've seen, they want fairly large isles - a good idea IMO. (...) "The optimist" doesn't want to get us in over our heads either. ;-) I heard back this morning, and it appears we may be able to get the "best of both worlds". The (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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(...) Hmm. I musta been out of the room at the time... If we're dispensing with the idea of the bridge going over anything, why not just run 3 continuous loops? (or in the case of an 'open C', 2 loops?) James (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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(...) That's where the four tracks come from. The way Steve drew it the other night, the main loop crossed over itself on the bridge, which of course implies that it can't be "water" under the bridge. (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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(...) I ran across another problem if we have an 'open C' style of layout - we need another bridge. The loop containing your arch can't come back around if our layout is open behind. James (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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(...) Hmm. Well, two and a half, but yeah, it's not a 4-sided layout location. There's an easy solution, but it depends on what requirements they have for clearances. If we do a 36x12 layout, that gives us a walkway (4' wide) behind - but the show (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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