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(...) problem in using multiple units together. It's hazy to me, but it revolves around gearing. I seem to recally that locos that are geared differently could not be MUed together because of the speed difference at the same throttle setting. (...) (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) intuitively felt there wasn't a problem, but don't have the analog electrical knowledge to describe exactly how it isn't a problem. With a train motor (LEGO or real) there's another factor which will help balance extremely imbalanced motors, (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Ralph, I am creating my Classic scale LEGO town with an HO Train and track. My old yellow train station originally had a 3 track covered train shed (on my website). The shed opening originally had 1x8x2 yellow arches for the train and tracks. (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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(...) loco (...) I've (...) one (...) Actually there's no problem at all. This topic has been deeply discussed in the lugnet.robotics ng: (URL) (some train specific examples in this message) (URL) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I'm not sure that this would cause that much problem unless the mismatch was very bad, unless you're really stressing out the motors with long trains (though I doubt we ever really get close to the load capacity of the motors due to the (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Jawn Henry construction notes (was Re: infrared remote control of LEGO trains using NQC and RCX
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Wow! Thank for the construction tips! I guess I may be one step ahead then. My Big Boy's tender operates on an end slider of two attached wheelsets. I have noticed a slight uplift going in and coming out of curves, but nothing major. I guess the (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I've been thinking the same thing. I almost always put two motors on each loco and I'm beginning to suspect that some of my biggest mismatches, which I've perhaps left that way for too long, have actually been causing damage to one motor or (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Jawn Henry construction notes (was Re: infrared remote control of LEGO trains using NQC and RCX
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Lar, When I read your comment I jumped up to check it out. The center slider[1] evolved from an unattached wheelset, which is why it had to be in the center. When you said end slider I thought, "Power for my SD40!" I did not try to make it, but (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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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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(...) You might do well to try here: www.eurostar.com eric (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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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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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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(...) hehe... c /Terminalogical/Terminological/ ++Lar (25 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Na, you got it just about right. I don't _know_ of any other makers of 'solid' wheels for railway engine use, so I think that it is right to call all wheels like that boxpox wheels. The only class of UK engines I can think of that used them (...) (25 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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