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Subject:	Re: Moonbase: Nailing down Moonway and Rail Standard
Newsgroups:	lugnet.space, lugnet.trains
Date:	Thu, 13 May 2004 19:26:54 GMT
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"Purple Dave" <purpledave@maskofdestiny.com> wrote in message news:HxKx9u.1sG7@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] > Try as I might with Track > Designer, I can't get a 2-piece or 4-piece S-curve to line up nicely • without > resorting to use of at least one point. [ ... snipped ... ] Have any of the Moonbase folks tried using TrackDraw[1] for moonbase design yet? I don't know if all of the elements are available yet but quite few of them certainly are. I know that most of the baseplates are available now as well.[2] In the TrackDraw forum there was a discussion about the Racer track having the same geometry as Duplo train track. The Duplo track has already been modeled for TrackDraw so I suspect (if it hasn't already been done) that extending the work done for the Duplo track to the Racers track won't be a gargantuan effort. Mike [1] TrackDraw - Cary Clark's application for design layouts - www.trackdraw.com. [2] TrackDraw is still very much still an Alpha product but at this point it is very usable. I used it to do the layout of the NCLTC GATS layout last month. -- Mike Walsh - mike_walsh at mindspring.com http://www.ncltc.cc - North Carolina LEGO Train Club http://www.carolinatrainbuilders.com - Carolina Train Builders http://www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=mpw - CTB/Brick Depot

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		Re: Moonbase: Nailing down Moonway and Rail Standard
(...) I don't have a copy of TrackDraw yet (I only recently downloaded Track Designer), but I'm pretty sure it's less a problem with the design program and more a problem with the actual track geometry. The Monorail track was designed with the (...) (21 years ago, 18-May-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.trains)

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		Re: Moonbase: Nailing down Moonway and Rail Standard
(...) It really makes sense as far as clearance goes, but all of the discussions on how to do a Moonbase-compatible container kept pushing to make it really long so they could serve double-duty as corridor modules, and using Space Train to haul them (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.trains, FTX)

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