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On Thu, 31 May 2001, Jason J. Railton (<GE7F01.HM9@lugnet.com>) wrote at 14:31:13 (...) It's Jon Reynolds. His online appearances are a bit sporadic, so I'll see if I can dig out some pictures that I took a while ago. (23 years ago, 31-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | How wide (in inches) is a piece of track?
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I'm working on little project here at the office (and I don't have any track here) and I need to know what the width of a piece of track. I know it's 6 studs, but what does that come out to in inches? If someone has a piece of track and a ruler (...) (23 years ago, 31-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Brit-Rail APT (Advanced Passenger Train)
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(...) version 1 (...) build a real one. I remember once we were train-spotting (oops, that slipped out) on a summers afternoon on the WCML north of Nuneaton. While lounging around we were caught by surprise as a super-fast and super-quiet APT on (...) (23 years ago, 30-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Did you MLCad the pendular mechanism too? If so, I would love to see the file! I haven't put enough time into shared boogies and tilting mechanisms to ever solve the problem myself ( I'm too lazy? I concentrate on freight? I'm not good enough? (...) (23 years ago, 31-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) For a passive tilt mechanism: It depends on where the pendular axis is located. If the axis of rotation is above the wagon's center of gravity, then the wagon would tilt such that the base of the wagon swing out in the curve- a "correct" tilt. (...) (23 years ago, 31-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Ticket center (cool lego site of THIS week)
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(...) Amen to that, fellow 8 widers:-) -John (...) (23 years ago, 31-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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"James Mathis" <thakius@nmt.edu> wrote in message news:GE5Mwy.49r@lugnet.com... (...) curves. (...) scheme, (...) seems (...) My physics might be completely wrong here, but the APT system was active wasn't it, in that it forced the train to lean (...) (23 years ago, 31-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Someone brought a working tilt train along to Tony Priestman's Lego Fest earlier this year. Who was it? I was hoping to have another look at it at Gosport, but it didn't show. It worked by having a large bogey pinned upright then pivoted (...) (23 years ago, 31-May-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Ticket center (cool lego site of THIS week)
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Hi Gianluca, (...) (URL) ...check his sidemap to see all MOCs! (...) ;-)) You got it! Your bavarian Train Engine is very nice! And the Smarts! Holger (23 years ago, 31-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) That is a really cool looking engine. All the details make it look very real. The Black Falcon shield is a nice LEGO® extra. I am looking forward to seeing pictures of the model presented with wagons at the Italian LEGOFest. Chris (23 years ago, 31-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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