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Today, when my green trolley rearended my red trolley I decided to test my motors. I ranked them in order of speed. Then I thought that it would be bad to have a fast motor paired with a slow motor. I thought that pairing motors with dissimilar (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Jawn Henry construction notes (was Re: infrared remote control of LEGO trains using NQC and RCX
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(...) If you do this (1) you need to arrange for articulation of some sort. I used a ball and socket(2). Others have used an arrangement to allow the non motor wheelset to slide sideways. (3) But if you make the 6 wheel truck rigid, you won't be (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) It looks great but how do you intend to handle corners - I know Maglev does curve much but in real life it does have a guide rail. Basically I'm trying to make a train like this: (URL) of LEGO for ten years and still haven't got a perfect (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Pics of Eurostar Train
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(...) Just what I was looking for! Alan (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Thanks for the advise Michel, After looking over the Jawn Henry schematics last night I noticed that each six driver wheelset, there being 4 sets of 6, has an offset between the first and second pair of drivers, then the second and third are close (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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That's VERY cool. Not being privy to a monorail set, I've been trying to build an elevated railway for a long time now. I never thought about the possibility of using the toothed rails as the driving mechanism. Alan Gerber (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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You'll find the pictures on the European Railway Server here: (URL) this is helpful, Nicholas Allan "Alan Gerber" <foofoogood@hotmail....ed_e-mail> wrote in message news:Fs0AE0.8GM@lugnet.com... (...) european (...) couldn't (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Pics of Eurostar Train
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(...) You might do well to try here: www.eurostar.com eric (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Maglev Train
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I've made a maglev train in LDraw and you can see it at (URL) set: <set:2847> (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| | Pics of Eurostar Train
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Could someone give me a link to more pics of this train: (URL) ? I've tried the european railway picture gallery, but the navigation was too confusing and I couldn't find it. TIA Alan (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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