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Re: Monorails
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lugnet.space
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Sat, 25 Sep 1999 17:05:21 GMT
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Greg Majewski wrote in message ...
> 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 great on straightaways and slopes, but I can't figure out • how
> to do curves. Any ideas? Has anyone else done something like this?
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 a single strip of railway track for the rail, and the
cars could use alternating inward-pointing train wheels to straddle the
track on each side. It might be challenging to get the cars' centre of
gravity low enough to not tip over by building them downward a lot on each
side (and keep side clearance on curves), but then such solutions would
probably also hide the train wheels nicely, as well as give the cars that
nice "straddling-the-rail" look.
Oh, and this method doesn't even address the problem of how to motorise it.
:-)
Paul
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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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| 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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