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Re: Monorails
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Date: 
Mon, 27 Sep 1999 09:42:13 GMT
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Paul Baulch wrote:
> 
> Greg Majewski wrote in message ...
> 
> > so I thought of using a monorail. The only

> 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

From what I remember of my old-style railway tracks, it is. Lego
themselves did a monorail this way once:

-> http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/6000/6970/6970-08.jpg

although 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 could do
a large monorail with a couple of straight and curved track sets. (Are
these S@H only in the US?)

:: paul (confusing isn't it?)



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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 (...) (27 years ago, 25-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)

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