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Re: A few pieces of railroad equipment I designed...
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Fri, 8 Jun 2001 15:07:33 GMT
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Seth,
I really like the comprehensive stake in the CAD LEGO-land that you're taking.
My particular favourite is the monorail. Very cool.
later,
James Mathis
In lugnet.trains, Seth C. Triggs writes:
> > Seth,
> >
> > That is a neat way to design you site.
>
> Thanks! I really appreciate it. I want to add some more elements, the page
> is a bit Spartan.
>
> > I wasn't too fond of your HP series,
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> Neither am I. The thing with those is that they were created when I was
> basically getting my legs with MLCAD, just feeling around. I think I'm going
> to scrap that design anyway. I want to design a more sleek and longer
> locomotive, one somewhat similar to the TGV and the new GE locomotives for
> the Long Island Railroad. Plus those scenes are too... boring.
>
> > but I liked your SW and D models. The rendered scenery is a nice touch that adds
> > to the display of your models.
>
> Thanks! I keep running out of memory when I do it, unfortunately. I wanted
> to have a few more buildings behind the D-27, and more station detail, but
> it didn't work out.
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> There are some more drawings of a large railway station in the
> http://www.svamcentral.org/lego/ directory, BTW.
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> > I do have a few questions for you. Are those the actual weights?
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> Nope, never built these models. They may be, but I sure don't know, I really
> don't have the pieces to build these. It's a blind guess, really.
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> > How did you
> > determine the tractive efforts (assuming that they are actual numbers)?
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> Another wild guess, just a guesstimation, if you will.
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> > Also,
> > the book I have lists tractive efforts as forces (lbs or kN) but you are listing
> > tractive effort as work (or energy, J)? Which is the right way to express
> > tractive effort?
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> I honestly don't remember... I last took Physics in 11th grade, some 6 years
> ago. Now, I do recall that one of my railroad books mentioned tractive
> effort, which I thought was how powerful the train is in pulling its load
> along a route, or something like that.
>
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> > Oh yeah, there isn't a "Products" link. There is a "Model" link.
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> Ooopsie...
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> Thanks, Chris. I think my memory is going.
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> Talk to ya later,
>
> -Seth
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