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Re: Moonbase: Nailing down Moonway and Rail Standard
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lugnet.space, lugnet.trains
Date: 
Sat, 15 May 2004 02:20:12 GMT
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I believe this pic that I made a while back will help people visualize
what Lenny is talking about :
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=518591

I beleive that this idea maximizes the real estate available...

Lenny Hoffman wrote:

My original proposition was to forget the track meeting at ends of the
baseplate, but to have an overlay of 4 studs on each side where a "connector"
track would be placed to connect two moonbase tracks.

-Lenny



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  Re: Moonbase: Nailing down Moonway and Rail Standard
 
(...) The advantage to that design is that the area between modules should already have 8-stud/9-brick clearance, so as long as the train isn't too high, it should be able to pass through safely without any major modifications to existing modules. (...) (21 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.trains)

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  Re: Moonbase: Nailing down Moonway and Rail Standard
 
(...) Thanks for the info! Being a spacer/castler, I've not had the pleasure of dealing with track geometry yet. (...) My original proposition was to forget the track meeting at ends of the baseplate, but to have an overlay of 4 studs on each side (...) (21 years ago, 10-May-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.trains, FTX)

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