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Re: Progress on Ore Dock
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Mon, 17 Sep 2001 19:55:50 GMT
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> If this goes forward, we will need a lot of essentially identical small ore
> jennies (slang for what the small hoppers are called). Although the
> prototype hoppers are 4 axle, they are very short and a 2 axle design may be
> the way to go. I, or someone else, could start designing these. They ought
> to be black or brown in color so would need to be designed for easy
> reproducability.
They should be black or brown (canadian national colors *i think*). I have
seen some other colors. I was hoping our friend to the north, Josh Baakko,
could give us some insight on what he sees at Marquette and the surrounding
area.
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> Also, it would be nice to have an ore boat present. If the dock is red I
> would argue that it ought to be black or grey or brown rather than red.
It should be White with a red keel but we could make it a different color.
I have started to work on it.
> To make the designs work out best it is important to know the spacing used
> on the dock. The dock ore chutes should be spaced the same as the hatch
> covers on the ore boat. The dock ore intake openings under the tracks should
> be spaced the same as the ore jenny hopper bay door openings.
But the deal with the openings is that the lego track has a 2x4 opening
every 2 studs.
The idea i had for making the dock workable is this see link
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=70548
and not worry about the chutes lining up with the jennies
kai
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| (...) I went to Da Tech... I don't forget what ore docks or jennies look like. (...) I've NEVER seen a white ore boat. Taconite dust would turn it pink in a NY minute. (...) Not saying the chutes have to line up with the jenny bay openings, just (...) (25 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| More ore dock thoughts. If this goes forward, we will need a lot of essentially identical small ore jennies (slang for what the small hoppers are called). Although the prototype hoppers are 4 axle, they are very short and a 2 axle design may be the (...) (25 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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