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| (...) Derails also have to be installed on the correct side of the track. If they are on a siding or industrial track they are installed on the rail of that track that is furthest from the main, that way the wheels are lifted up, over the rail, and (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: How many windows does 4561 Railway Express come with?
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| (...) Ok, ok. Mr. Pickie... Tony, Larry is right. That is the correct count of clear thin-wall dimensions and pieces. Since Lego used them as "train windows," in #4560/4561, you naturally phrased your question inside the context of this set, and (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| Warning, pedant alert. (...) Of thinwalls. Window count is none, I think. :-) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Retarders (was Re: Train Stoppers)
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| While we are on the subject of stopping rail cars... Does anyone have any ideas for a pneumatic powered retarder for use in WAMALUGs new hump yard(1)? In real life, retarders are hydralic powered machines that grab the wheels of freight cars was (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: Train Stoppers
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| (...) Yes. I believe this is how derails used to be done a long time ago. But doing it this way requires actual trackwork, in that a section of rail needs to be removed, and some very precise relaying of track (with plates below to support the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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