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(...) Glad you didn't design any bridges *I* have to cross. :-) I wasn't too surprised to hear the deck flexes. it needs to be a truss, or at least a much deeper girder. No way is 4 bricks of depth enough for a 20-30 inch span. c.f. "Galloping (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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Impressive piece of engineering says the civil engineer in me. Not to sure about you choice of blue for the columns though. (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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The one in 2126 is 24 studs. The Metroliner coaches are on 28 stud wagon plates. Actually I just finished building a white coach, and faking the plate looks pretty good except it's 1 plate higher than a regular wagon plate. I guess you could use a 1 (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: does datsville need jobs?i think i have the answer
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(...) What about the large grey baseplates? -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.trains)
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(...) fortune! (...) 25 bulk brick buckets, 139 Blue tubs and counting. I will be picking up 16 tubs a week for many months starting after Christmas. (No time to sort right now.) Mike (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.trains)
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(...) 2126 has one. Kevin (a different one) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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The more I look at the black club car the more I think a black metroliner coach would look good. Does anyone know if any set has a 28 stud wagon plate? I guess I could always fake it with black plates. Of course if you substituted trans-yellow for (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) bricks (...) I meant, the biggest Model I ever made. (well theres that airport.. naaa) (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hee Hee This reminds me of the original Adam's Family. Gomez and his trains. I would imagine a Lego crash would be much more ... ummm...entertaining(?) than an HO scale train crash, of course leaving out the explosives<grin> or not ..... John (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Ouch! Where are you getting the parts for this stuff? it must cost you a fortune! -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Actually, you are not quite there. The train modules I and the GMLTC build are 144 x 96 x 20 1/3 each and adding a single brick to the top beats yours. Also, several modules are joined together for "one model" of a landscape. For example, (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.trains)
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(...) I'm using strings, and have problems with them not winding evenly. This then causes one side or another to be higher than the other. End to end isn't too bad, but I did not leave in any way to ajust a single string save much hassle at one (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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I just finished my black club car: (URL) also have pictures of a modified metroliner to get 2 passenger cars and an engine out of one set. Then just for fun I took some pictures of my cats playing with a freight train. see the txt file for details. (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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(...) (URL) - I'm notoriously bad at keeping it up-to-date. I've got 2 snaps of the 1st edition bridge - chain-link, single-track, very thin deck. Send me mail & pester me to take some more shots of it tomorrow when I'm at work :) I'll post them at (...) (25 years ago, 28-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yup, but I cheat a bit. The track is in four zones: 2 on the bridge (each of two parallel tracks), and one more for each turnabout. The bridge zones are trivial - each is only 7 track segments long. I'm away from my track designer, so I can't (...) (25 years ago, 28-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Lift Bridge. I'm actually on my second version; the first was lifted by long chain-link chains and powered from the top of the towers. It only carried a single track, and the deck was quite light, and a little flimsy. I ran into difficulty (...) (25 years ago, 28-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: does datsville need jobs?i think i have the answer
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You may want to crib from the GMLTC car shop. That building has actual roof trusses. They aren't load bearing in that building, but they could be. Most of the building is my work, but Conan came up with the truss idea and it's a doozy. It's not as (...) (25 years ago, 28-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thomas, I have a building that is real (not cad) that is @230, by 41, by 9 (studs) :) Car factory, and it is also missing all interior, and a roof. I really cannot figure out how to make a roof for it, so it is going to be a open air factory, (...) (25 years ago, 28-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.trains)
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Thomas Burger: (...) Nice building. I look forward to when you get time to put some equipment inside the building. One thing though. I would like to hear how the Aerotech engineers pulled the stunt with the roof on the building. I can't see any (...) (25 years ago, 28-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.trains)
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Wow, that's BIG. Maybe I'll take some notes and try to model the GMLTC car shop when I am in MPLS week after next. (25 years ago, 28-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.trains)
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