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(...) I'm not so sure, if you look at the Direct catalogue (which is much more clearer) I think the piece is just a standard 4x1 black lighting brick whoch is used on the freight trains, then there are inverted slope pieces underneath. Carbon 60 (26 years ago, 10-Dec-98, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New pics from LEGOLAND
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(...) :p (...) OK, 'cog railway' is a term I know. Thanks for straightening me out. Seems like someone has done this in LEGO. Maybe if I followed trains more closely, I'd remember who. (...) Cool. Sounds like a "the yesterday that never was" sort of (...) (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 9volt motor problems -- I think
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(...) Dacta sell it don't they? Matt (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 9volt motor problems -- I think
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An update for those of you who were curious: Matt Bates was correct -- the front wheels were lifting the motor wheels off the tracks just enough to disrupt the electrical contact. The motor is fine, my construction techniques are not. So, I had to (...) (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.trains)
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BTW, anyone noticed the first passenger car is in reverse in the official catalog picture (compare to s@h picture). Eric (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Well, duh. It's a railway with a rack. Seriously. :-) More detail... these are sometimes also called "cog" railways. They are so called because in addition to the two weight bearing rails there is a central rack (linear toothed) that a powered (...) (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) A) What's a rack railway? B) What're the details on the one in Houghton? Did they run it up the side of the MEEM? Nah, then the ROTC's wouldn't have anything to rappel... Steve (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) There used to be one of these at Niagara Falls, somewhere, and I rode it when I was about 7 or so. Pretty neat, especially when you get to the middle and the other car passes you. I think there is one in Pittsburgh too. What I like better, (...) (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 1999 Trains
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(...) I want these parts, they are wicked cool. (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 1999 Train 4561
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(...) Nope. Those could never circus load. The trucks have small wheels and there is clever engineering to get the floor as low as possible, but the floor is the same level from one bridge plate to the other. (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.trains)
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