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(...) I believe those are "track torpedoes" which are (were) set out several hundred (thousand) yards behind a train stopped on or fouling the main. They detonate with an explosive sound when train wheels go over them, thus making an audible (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) My main use for the buffer stop is to save my RCX Train from smashing someplace unpleasant. This is the same for DCC. If my RCX Train should miss a track command and smash into a sidding I want it protected. Here is the latest incarnation of (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Retarders (was Re: Train Stoppers)
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(...) ...But do we really need to be more retarded? I have enuf problems as it is... (...) ....hmmmm humping??... film it :-) ...you can go back to ignoring me now... wubwub stephen f roberts wildlink.com lugnet #160 (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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At the edge of my memory, I can remember, as a kit, hearing a news story about derailers being stolen. It made the news as the items stolen were explosive in nature. I assume it would be a small charge which would be set off by the train/carriage (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) ...2 of the springie things are also in the crystal crawler (1728 or 6145, depending on where u happen to exist (also available from the Potomac Mills outlet)) ...I built a very primitive one using a helicopter top (brick with a technic pin on (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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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