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Train show details
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Fri, 8 Sep 2000 00:38:44 GMT
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(In the NALug mailing list and direct e-mail)
Steve wrote:
> > > > > > Larry is sending me one of his hopper cars so we'll have one in time
> > > > > > for the show. It should look great with the functioning grain tower.
Larry? wrote:
> > > > > Grain goes in covered hoppers, this is an open top.
Steve wrote:
> > > Right - Forgot about rain - OK, I'll stick with the sulfur. :-)
About the same time, Michel wrote:
> > I have two copies of Larrys creation, and Kevin had at least 4 others.
Steve wrote:
> Oh.
> OK - Should we make a multiple sulfur car train then, or just stick
> with the containers? Perhaps Kevin's 8wide engine could pull the
> sulfur cars on a separate loop? As for the containers, I have yet to
> see anyone post a color band choice - is it just going to be Michel's
> regular containers and my improvised yellow ones?
Steve made some tentative changes to the layout on TD and wrote:
> I can guess from Chris' photos that the upper intersection plate
> is the grain elevator, but I don't know what the blue plate in the
> lower right is. I made a few changes to simplify the layout a bit
> and remove the need for the road crossing a switch. It also gives
> a bit more room for monorail pillars. I was thinking of running
> monorail mostly around the edges, but I'm not sure where the edges
> are anymore. Are roadplates exactly one foot? Does anyone other
> than Michel and I have TD? (Should I e-mail to Michel directly?)
Michel wrote:
> How about if we make them coal? Because the yellow pellets for sulfur
> will look just like the grain ones! Don't want to confuse the spectators.
> We did run Kevin’s 8 wide train on the inner loop, where there were fewer
> obstructions! Go ahead and bring your containers, we had a fairly large
> area set aside for them.
> I haven't looked at your last layout, because I haven't had the time to
> reinstall the track designer on my new hard drive. But there really is
> not much room on the edges, maybe 4 to 6 studs, so I don't think circling
> the whole layout is a good idea. I would be afraid that it could easily
> fall to the ground.
In regards to color bands, John wrote:
> I'll try to make dummy containers with a blue color band.
> I'm not sure if I'll have time, but I'll try...
OK - So - Michel is stock containers, I'm yellow, and John is blue.
Does anyone else want to make some dummy containers? There's
still lots of color bands left to pick from...
Coal? I'd say no, since black coal bricks in black hoppers cars won't
show up, and the grain should be white bricks not yellow anyway, right?
I wanted to run the monorail mostly around the edge so the pillars wouldn't
be in the way of the rest of the layout, and to give me the maximum length
for the >100" span bridge. However, I certainly don't want it getting
bumped off the tables and with track all around the edges, there isn’t
really anywhere on the left and right to put the ends of the bridge.
I don’t see how the >100” will work unless I cut back on the track at the
bottom of the layout. In addition to the “world record monorail bridge”,
I wanted to showcase my new bridge design concept. However, I don't
think I have enough LEGO (or time) to do both. Perhaps I should just
make a >30” bridge to span the water section, and run the monorail from
the station on the left up, over and down the right to whatever that blue
plate represents. What does everyone else think?
SRC
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| SRC wrote in message ... (...) This sounds reasonable. If you can keep the monorail elevated for all or most of the loop, it should not be too hard to integrate it into the layout. The 30" bridge should also work. I guess simple is good for (...) (24 years ago, 9-Sep-00, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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