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Re: Train Storage Carousel
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Fri, 19 Apr 2002 01:34:28 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > > http://www.oxford.net/~hendryjr/temp/carousel2.jpg
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> I'm the guy who always says "there's a prototype for everything 'trainish'
> if you just look hard enough" but I think in this case I am not going to say
> that. :-) I looked, fairly hard, but have not found one... yet.
The prototype for the great train storage machine is actually a rotary
launcher for the AGM-86B cruise missiles that fit in the bomb bay of a B-52
bomber:
http://fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/bomber/agm-86c-dvic395.jpg
I agree there probably isn't a train-industry prototype for such a
device-though when Iain showed me the SMART car brochure, there is
apparently a car sized vending machine in a similar vein in Europe somewhere.
I'm not sure how the idea originally came up but I think Iain and I were
joking about some sort of unusual way to solve a train problem using
Technic-and that problem was that we always have far too much rolling stock
versus staging tracks to put them on. Of course, Iain has the skill to
actually build such a device...
It's sort of the same type of joke as the inevitable rtlToronto Train
Solution to a Technic Problem, such as a giant train track that can drop
blocks in the Project X shape. Most rtlToronto robotics events feature a
stupid use of a train part somewhere (I think Iain once mounted a piece of
9V curved just for fun at rtl6 on his robot) and some ingenious uses too
(Derek Raycraft used 4.5V rails for his Project X entry at rtl10)
I see Holger Matthes and other Germany enthusiasts with their 1592 jokes,
(those are really quite funny) this is sort of ours :)
Calum
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| "Calum Tsang" <tsangc@mie.utoronto.ca> wrote in message news:GusKDG.HHz@lugnet.com... (...) somewhere. No, no, no :) The smart tower at the smart centres are simply static displays with all the various configurations of the smart (smart & pure, (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) if you just look hard enough" but I think in this case I am not going to say that. :-) I looked, fairly hard, but have not found one... yet. However I WILL say that this will really rock if you can pull it off. The closest real trains come to (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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