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I just noticed that in the Mars Expansion Set contains a few items that us train nuts will love. See the link here; (URL) things to note are 2 black lattice pieces AND 4 black 6 by 16 plates! Dean -- TFM's Home Page: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Train Stoppers
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Scott A wrote in message ... (...) design. (...) I simply mean that each bogie configures it's yaw axis to the piece of track it's on. Just like the real thing. Iain -- tokama (URL) UIN 5362826 AIM Linjerflyg h e n d r y j r AT o x f o r d DOT n e t (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Retarders (was Re: Train Stoppers)
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(...) How about using the FO pieces rased using a pnumatic cylinder? I don't imagine that you would manage to build a hump yard except on a 'special' table, so the mounting wouldn't be impossible, but they would work OK I think for use as retarders. (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yep, if you have a Peco stockist closeby you can see them, they are called "catch points" in English railroading, and are built exactly like that, usually leading into a large box of sand. James P (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Not LEGO, but trains( $$$ for 2200 foot loop of track)
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It's a long trek, but I think I'd come to Minneapolis to see a 2200' train layout. And if I came, I'd certainly bring my 60' of straight track. Y'know, I think there's enough people out there with 10' or more of straight track, that this *could* be (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: How many windows does 4561 Railway Express come with?
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Soon as LegoDirect sells them I'll send you one. (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Train Stoppers
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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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(...) ...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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| | 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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| | Re: How many windows does 4561 Railway Express come with?
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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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| | 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)
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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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(...) Yes, the cybermaster touch sensors have resistors in parallel to the switch, while the RIS touch sensor doesn't. The cybermaster uses the resistors to find out which touch sensor is connected to which switch. If you put them in _series_ and (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: How many windows does 4561 Railway Express come with?
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(...) Yes, that's correct. The odd 1x4x3 is behind the engineer. Rich -- Have Fun! C-Ya! Legoman34 ***** Legoman34 (Richard W. Schamus)... (No, I don't work for TLC, but I want to...) Card carrying LUGNET MEMBER: #70 Visit (URL) & (URL) wait is (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | How many windows does 4561 Railway Express come with?
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Is this a correct count: 25 1x4x3 trans-light-blue 16 1x2x3 trans-light-blue (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I looked at your "site" the other day - I was very impressed with the design. By "steerable bogies" do you mean the train 'decides' which way to go at points? If not, what to you mean. Scott A (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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