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(...) Hi everyone. My name is Tony Hedglen and I’m very interested in automated Lego railroads. I am a member of Michlug and we are one of the newer clubs. We have done one train show so far and we won second place. I read these posts on sensors and (...) (23 years ago, 31-May-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: How wide (in inches) is a piece of track?
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Ok, cool. Thanks Eric. jt (...) (23 years ago, 31-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: How wide (in inches) is a piece of track?
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(...) Actually thats the distance between the outside edges of the ties (8 studs) don't know if you meant between the rails. Here are several dimensions. 2 1/2" from outside of the ties. 1 11/16" between outside of the rails 1 1/2" between inside of (...) (23 years ago, 31-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I get 2 and 1/2 inches almost exactly. Eric Kingsley (23 years ago, 31-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Brit-Rail APT (Advanced Passenger Train)
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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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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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| | Re: Brit-Rail APT (Advanced Passenger Train)
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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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