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See I learn something new every day. I know geometry but not much about structural engineering, so I saw an arch and figured it was an arch bridge. But now I have been inlightened, cool. jt (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Mighty Mac... (URL) (I've posted links to it in the past I think) (...) bridges that look like it in shape (with the inward sloping cantilever towers) or in expanse and it was a ground breaker in its day. My hero, D. B. Steinman, (1) took a (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) If we are talking bridge spotting, I'll be crossing this (road) one today: (URL) I cross it, I'll be looking at this (rail) one: (URL) picture: (URL) are about 8 miles from my office. Scott A (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I'm not a civil, thanks for refining my critique. (...) Oh, indeed, it looks nifty. It's just not an arch. I'm not competent to comment on whether trusses can't be pinned, though. While we are identifying arches, though, I thought Ben "April Fool" (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I was going to leave this, but now that you started... I agree that is not a arch, and I expect that is was modelled on a truss. However, I'd call it a frame as it is pin jointed (trusses, I think are not). However, to be a frame all the (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Well, no, I'd have to categorise it as a type of through truss. Hell Gate and Sydney Harbor Bridge, for example, are suspension arch bridges. Essentially all members below the arch are in tension and the deck is suspended from the arch. (The (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Great model Arne! Do you have the chance to come along after x-mas and join our train event in Braunschweig? I would love to see the bridge in real. BTW: Does anybody know something about this guy or has seen these pictures before? It's a (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Dear James, yes it´s the old 4,5V rail, and the complete middle-part of the bridge is made only with 1x2-1x10 plates. Arne (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Looks like the arch is made from 4.5v curved rails, right Arne? I really like the look of it, very sturdy and even looking. Nice job. I'd have to argue with the "two" arch bridges though, I have a technic arch bridge that I made earlier this year. (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Love that bridge. It looks like the span carries the whole load. What I mean is that a lot of people use bricks under the track to stiffen the track, but your track is supported at six or maybe 8 points, and the rails and tiles do all the (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) in the world. :-) It looks good - a more "European" feel than mine. I've managed to get enough beams to make a few of my bridges, but I don't know if I'll be able to have one ready in time for Christmas like I had hoped. I don't want to post (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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The Acela coaches are exactly what inspired this. One of my co-workers was on the Acela design team at IDEO. He and I were pouring over the photos of the Acela just last night before I went home and built this. It was great, he was pointing out (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I'm glad you like it. You are certainly welcome to copy the design. No issues. But, I encourage you to disrespect it ;-) Afterall, my design does not TILT! The TALGO is a pendular train, as you may know, and I believe the passenger wagons tilt (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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WOW!!!! As one who put in a good 20-30 unsuccessful hours trying to get the funky-shaped engines, the sweeping colored stripe, and the crazy monocoupler right, I stand in out front, ovating your accomplishments! I moved to Washington state a little (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I don't want to rekindle an old argument, or to start something I can't finish, but... Pshaw! You mean "using the brick" like LEGO does with their printed bricks, and their page of stickers included with nearly every model? Or "forcing creativity" (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.general)
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Wie schön, Arne! You have created a beautiful looking arch. That's one of the finest LEGO bridges I have ever seen:-) Well done! -John (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi Train Fans, I am a Lego Fan from Germany, but I like US Trains. So I have build a model from the Hell Gate Bridge near New York. Please look at: (URL) (24 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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This is a great project. Good idea, Steve and JT. I've been delaying even prototyping Acela coaches, for this dual tapered issue is applicable to the Acela train coaches, too, and I hadn't thought of anything short of severely hinge-piece and 1x2 (...) (24 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Wow, that's funny I've been working on a similar idea. I want to make a few models of the local transit trains in Atlanta (MARTA), and they are tapered at the top and bottom. with the windows tilting in a bit. It's more like the middle of the coach (...) (24 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Steve, I do not think there is anything revolutionary about the design or construction (all studs up) - it actually looks a little boring, very smooth. But I do think it is a good Lego model of the prototype ((URL) With the lights flashing, it (...) (24 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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