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motorized cars?
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lugnet.town
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Thu, 5 Aug 2004 18:45:16 GMT
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Has anyone done anything with motorized cars that drive around the town?
(I mean, anyone besides LegoLand!)
I've thought of a couple of vague ideas:
- magnets under the street that pull the cars along
- a slotted street that guides motorized cars
- robotic cars that follow the center line on the road
- street cars pulled back and forth by a string above the street
...but I'm not particularly happy with any of these. Any other ideas or
experience to share?
Thanks,
- Joe
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| (...) I think the MichLTC folks had a car that ran around with a magnet under the road attached to a train engine on a loop. Seemed like a very cool and simple solution to making cars move. jt (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.town)
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| (...) The GMLTC did this on our previous layout. You can just see our 'quarry' dump truck to the right of the famous blue locomotive: (URL) had a technic chain set up around several gears, with a magnet that pulled the truck around the circle. It (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.town)
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| (...) JT already spoke of MichLTC's (actually, our resident wizard, Steve Ringe's) work. GMLTC had mine trucks that followed a chain drive underneath a baseplate/tile layer, Magnets provided the connectivity. Eric Brok had this same thing for (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.events.legoworld)
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| (...) I forgot this one: (URL) (and other pictures in the same folder) where Ross Neal used pneumatic tubing around pulleys to make a 2-wide train move. I've seen this one in person, it's pretty slick! Everyone in the GMLTC wonders where Ross gets (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.town)
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| (...) Not LEGO, but there is a huge HO-scale train layout in Germany that has thousands of computer controlled cars driving around the layout: (URL) to Pictures, then Carsystem-gallery. Very amazing stuff. Russell BayLTC (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.town)
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