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Re: Moonbase and monorail
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Tue, 13 Aug 2002 17:17:34 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Jon Palmer writes:
"David Wegmuller" <david@wegmuller.org> wrote in message
news:H0sHMM.Eur@lugnet.com... • <snip>

One thing I'm not sure about is what height should the monorail track be
built at... Official Lego sets used 0, 10 bricks and 20 bricks. 10 bricks
would bring the track just a bit higher than the floor of a moonbase
corridor. This would let us re-use the track supports that came with the
original sets.
The track could also be built a couple of bricks lower than the corridor
floor so that the floor of the trains would be level with the corridors...
A third possibility would be to build the monorail at 20 bricks, so it • would
clear most existing buildings. The trackwould be lowered to 10 bricks to • go
though a station...

Ok this rocks.  I say the first thing we do is make the decisions regarding
the track height.  10 brick height souns great to me but so do the other
ideas.  I obviously don't own any monorail (this might change in the future
:-) so I definitely feel I'm not the best one to make this decision.  I'll
just put in a vote for the 10 brick height.

Now what do others think?


Well, I think that I have no monorail. Everything here sounds fine though.

The only thing that I could ask for is that there be a provision for those
of us who are monorail-less. I'm not against using standard train track,
even though it's not quite as cool. I haven't seen any MOCs yet, but I'm
sure that we could build futuristic trains using the standard track.
Elevation changes would be out, but I'm sure that there are quite a few
ready made standards that we could snag from the .Trains group.

Opinions?

-Duane


<snip>
-Jon
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  Re: Moonbase and monorail
 
"Duane Hess" <LEGOZILLA@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote in message news:H0sLDA.2xF@lugnet.com... (...) be (...) bricks (...) the (...) corridor (...) corridors... (...) to (...) regarding (...) future (...) I'll (...) I have successfully created an elevation (...) (22 years ago, 13-Aug-02, to lugnet.space)
  Re: Moonbase and monorail
 
(...) You can design your Moonbase with monorail in mind, and if you are planning on coming to the NWBrickCon there will be enough monorail where it can be added to your Moonbase design. It's a way for you to create a cool Moonbase/monorail system (...) (22 years ago, 14-Aug-02, to lugnet.space)

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  Re: Moonbase and monorail
 
"David Wegmuller" <david@wegmuller.org> wrote in message news:H0sHMM.Eur@lugnet.com... (...) connection. Sounds great. This was just what we had in mind. I had *no* idea that there were 8 stud lengths of monorail track. I'm a real monorail newbie. I (...) (22 years ago, 13-Aug-02, to lugnet.space)

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