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Mountain Layout
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Mon, 27 Aug 2001 15:24:46 GMT
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Ok, I now have enough BURPS to start construction on the Mountain. But I have
few questions.
1. Should I have two tracks running through the mountain or only one?
2. Should it be built for a corner or a straight run of track?
3. If I do indeed build it for two rows of track, how far apart should the
pieces of track be? If they are far enought apart, I will have two
enterence/exits, otherwise just one big one.
4. Where on a 32x32 baseplate should the outermost piece of track lie, to line
up with the rest of the layout?
5. How high does the tunnel need to be to provide enough clearence for say the
'Big Boy'?
6. If it is a corner mountain how much turning clearence is needed for the 'Big
Boy'? (I have some Lego standard engines and rolling stock, but none of it
comes close to the massive 'Big Boy').
7. Do we still want the top to be a plateau for pampilets and catalogs? (While
this will make it useful, how asthetically pleasing will it be?)
8. Um, does anyone have some other information that I might need, but just
haven't asked?
Thanks,
Jason
PS I'm looking forward to seeing everyone (and their creations) in two weeks.
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Message has 7 Replies:
 | | Re: Mountain Layout
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| (...) Jason I suggest splitting the parallel track with one going up and through and the other running through a cut in the mountain. This has visual appeal and may use less components Lester (23 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| (...) (Just offering some friendly suggestions from experience...) (...) It depends a lot on how wide your mountain is. In general though, I'd suggest only 1, especially if your mountain goes around a corner. If you stick to LEGO's standard spacing (...) (23 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| James, Are you planning on making the mountian out of all burps? I had a similar plan in mind that used lots of green bricks like Jeff's mountians at Train2. Anywho, I suggest you have one track running through the mountian and one on the outside. (...) (23 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| (...) I have two buildings on the water side so I’m hoping for a larger water side this time. Saying that, my thoughts are to have one side facing water with two tracks. One going though and one track on the outside of the mountain. You could also (...) (23 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| Jason, Well, I guess the best thing to do is to figure out a few things: 1) Our size for Novi 2) What additions are we adding to the layout 3) What would be a good place, corner, etc. It would be a good topic to talk about at the meeting, one week (...) (23 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| (...) Jason, we are still a long way till i get a layout size from GATS.I think the best thing to do is do a straight line through it along with one next to it.Having the monorail go through it would be good to but until i get a layout going i'm not (...) (23 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| (...) Well maybe I can answer a few of those questions. (...) One running through, and another along the outside. Perhaps some elevation, with a bridge over the river kwai. This mountain could be the source of water for a lake/bay in another part of (...) (23 years ago, 28-Aug-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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