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Re: Moonbase: Nailing down Moonway and Rail Standard
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lugnet.space, lugnet.trains
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Date:
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Tue, 11 May 2004 15:49:42 GMT
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In lugnet.space, David Laswell wrote:
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No matter how long I think of this, I just keep seeing a Moontruck clipping
the side of a long ore-hauling car. Since December, I’ve always been
thinking of Space Train as a bunch of short, single-bogey cars that stick to
the curves really well, but if people are going to make full-length cars,
they’re going to overhang the curve interiors quite a bit.
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Having short cars was one of the main ideas in the beginning, yeah.
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Raise further and as steep as 5 plates per straight if the spec allows it.
You could have the space train acting like a big dipper through a crater!
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It’d probably make more sense to run the Moonway above the modules and the
Space Train below them. Monorail is already perceived as being the standard
people-mover, with Space Train being more cargo-oriented (and therefore more
likely to be restricted to ground level), but Moontrucks also look like
they’re going to require a lot more vertical clearance than Space Train, so
running it over the corridor connections would address that issue as well.
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You might just have a good point there. It would be nice to raise the race-track
but then we have to worry about running into monorail.
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