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| Hi, I am currently planning on making a large space station facility, and I want it to have mass transport, so I thought of using a monorail. The only problem is that I don't have any real monorails, so I made one out of regular 1xN bricks. It works (...) (25 years ago, 25-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| Greg Majewski wrote in message ... (...) want (...) problem (...) how (...) Is it possible to concatenate single railway track pieces without using the dk-grey sleeper "clip" pieces, i.e. just with normal studs? If it is, then perhaps you could use (...) (25 years ago, 25-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| Greg Majewski: [ Building monorails from "plain" bricks ] What I have tried, but definitely not perfected, is to use 2x2/1x4 hinge plates for the turns. In stead of fixed wheels to keep the cars centered on the rails, I used wheels on springs. (...) (25 years ago, 25-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) From what I remember of my old-style railway tracks, it is. Lego themselves did a monorail this way once: -> (URL) it didn't have curves. The other problem is that, if you're not a train fan, coming by curves can be quite tricky, although you (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| Yes, I have. what I did was that I dug out every tile I could find, used 2*n bricks to build the trail, and then made a 2-stud wide gap in the vehicle´s bottom to fit in the "track". In order to turn, I made a 1-stud wide gap between the main rail (...) (25 years ago, 29-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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