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Well, I keep mentioning it so it is about time I put it up. Here is my version of an EMD SD40-2. It was pulled out of the paint (figuratively) shop and put into service before the paint (figuratively again) job was done. I have also put up a redo of (...) (25 years ago, 20-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi! I am starting to use Track Designer 2.0. I was wondering if anybody who has the program has created any of the following baseplates and could e-mail them to me. I'm not really great at making them myself. Thanks! The baseplates are: -Street with (...) (25 years ago, 20-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Thanks for the comments. Yes, Larry, I was so excited that I forgot to put the link up, but you were very correct in figuring it was here: (URL) tighter curve has put a lot of restrictions on me. Although the loops I have running right now are (...) (25 years ago, 20-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Hmm, I think you are little ahead of your time. Perhaps in another five years when LEGO releases larger radius track, you'll be on to something. Building to scale should be as much about functionality as well as meeting exact scaling. But I leave (...) (25 years ago, 20-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Well, my trains are usually long enough and massive enough that I see effects on the locomotives. You can hear the motors suddenly starting to work harder as they come into a curve, and surge forward as they come out of it. (the momentum of (...) (25 years ago, 20-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Daggum, it's HUGE !!! Maybe if you interspersed a straight track between each curve piece the overhang wouldn't be quite so...blatant. Nice work though, I really wish it wasn't UPAC, between them and Santa Fe I've seen too many western (...) (25 years ago, 20-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I've noticed this as well. At the GATS show today, I asked others to observe it just to make sure it isn't just me. I notice it mostly when the train goes through an s-curve. The front of the train doesn't surge, but the back does. I think Larry is (...) (25 years ago, 20-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Recent "big loco" and "big car" projects by others have started me thinking about speed surges and wondering if there is a relation. I notice that my longer locos and longer (car length and number of cars) trains experience high frequency (...) (25 years ago, 20-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I think Mike forgot to say where, and I am guessing it is here: (...) I like the comparision pic with the HO scale model pic. You've got the proportions right! But it's so HUGE... I think 6 wide may have been a better choice. Still, very nice work. (25 years ago, 20-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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