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Re: APT tilts thru curves in Real-Build ABS form
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Wed, 27 Jun 2001 03:03:57 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, James Mathis writes:
> My attempt to model the British Rail Advanced Passenger Train set is
> progressing. The "real-build" ABS consist is:
> 1. cab unit (driver trailer second)
> 2. passenger car (trailer second)
> 3. passenger car (trailer brake first)
> 4. motor unit (non driving motor)
> 5. passenger car (trailer brake first)
> 6. cab unit (driver trailer second)
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> The names in parenthesis are the British Rail nomenclature.
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> 1) The train cars do indeed tilt through curves. The pendular axis of
> rotation is just below the roof-line; thus, the car bodies swing "out"
> rather than tip "in". I'm not sure that is the best way to describe this
> motion???
>
> 2) There is no pancake gap between the wheels/trucks/bogies and the main
> frame of the cars.
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> 3) The height of the train is equivalent to a standard official LEGO
> passenger train.
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> 4) Typical gaps do exist between the ends of the wheels/trucks/bogies and
> the ends of the inverse undercarriage.
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> 5) 9v train motors are located on the "non-driving motor" unit, as is
> prototypical.
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> See this APT in ABS at:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=5195
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> Still need to order bunches of blue train windows.
> Still need to order some blue train doors.
> Black 2x2 tiles...
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> I found it a little difficult to photograph the tilt. I hope some of the
> pictures convey that it really is tilting!
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> I hope to be able to make another "non-driving motor" and another "trailer
> second", or perhaps the "restaurant/buffet first" car. I think an 8 unit
> real-build LEGO version of the APT might be near the limit of this
> simultaneous push-pull configuration with the 9v motors in the middle of the
> set.
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> I think the APT-P (pre-production prototype) is the unit that saw
> revenue-paying service: 250 km/h 2+12 high-powered version (Three prototype
> trains were built). You can see very cool drawings of the proposed APT sets
> at The Railway Age, a home for the Preservation of the APT train set.
> http://www.therailwayage.co.uk/apt/APTConfigurations.htm
> You can click on some of the drawings to see floor plans of the interiors.
>
> You may notice that the real-life APT set does not have a blue-window livery.
> From the photos it looks more slate blue, dark gray, ????? Also, the roof
> is more white than gray. It's tough for me to tell. White would be a
> reasonable LEGO color for the roof. Alas, I've chosen gray for the time
> being....
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> Thanks for reading and looking.
>
> later,
> James Mathis
Awesome, I'd even allow this to run on my layout! (and I'm not a pasenger
train type of guy either)
Quite a neat job on that one, James! -Harvey
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