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Re: Train Storage Carousel
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lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto
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Fri, 19 Apr 2002 01:51:31 GMT
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"Calum Tsang" <tsangc@mie.utoronto.ca> wrote in message
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> 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.
No, no, no :)
The smart tower at the smart centres are simply static displays with all the
various configurations of the smart (smart & pure, etc..). It's not a
VENDING MACHINE. :)
> versus staging tracks to put them on. Of course, Iain has the skill to
> actually build such a device...
...but really, no. I tried making the end drive tonight and I didn't even
have enough beams to finish roughing out the wheel. :-/ I could make one
that holds 4 trains, but that's stupid. I want 16 now, and I can't do it.
Iain
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Message has 3 Replies:
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| (...) Bummer. That would so rock if it were. I wonder what the biggest item ever vended via a vending machine was. (I've seen a LEGO(r) vending machine in Oz as you know, cool robot arm and all) The idea of vending a full size car is so darn silly (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
| | | Re: Train Storage Carousel
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| (...) So then can you up in the tower and look at them on each floor? (...) What about making the wheel out of ZNAP, and each carrier holding one car only. That way you can make a train by picking the sequence of cars? Do only 4 or 8 cars? It would (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) 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: (URL) agree there probably isn't a train-industry prototype for such a device-though (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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