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Re: Monorail track and other stuff
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 30 Jul 2001 21:48:21 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Jim Schifeling writes:
> Now before I go buy and destroy a bunch of stuff I shouldn't have.... has
> anyone made monorail track? It looks like you could make it out of old 12V
> rails taken off, laid seperately end to end and raised up on 1 or 2 (1x)
> plates. Have any of you tried this? I saw someone a week ago or so with
> monorail track made of Znap but the pictures were real bad and there was no
> documentation. Maybe a micro motor set sideways?
When I was a kid I made such a monorail made of single 12V track elements.
The vehincles for this where basicly 4 wide plates with some build up on top
and four round bricks 1 x 1 under it, one pair (1 stud apard) at the front
and one pair at the back. These where not motorized, I used to slide them
along the track manualy. I had both passanger and freight carriers, the last
ones where made from the old town truck bases. I operated a kind of sliding
switches, by moving sideways a curved section could take the place of a
straight one. I could also make 3-way switches with this technique. The
great thing was: you could make a track double in length compaired with a
normal layout, and with a minimum of material spectacular spans and other
impossibly flimsy structures where possible.
Greetings, M. Moolhuysen.
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| (...) Very prototypical, this is one common way for monorail switches to be organized in real life (the other is with a section of track that pivots at one end. ++Lar (23 years ago, 1-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| Now before I go buy and destroy a bunch of stuff I shouldn't have.... has anyone made monorail track? It looks like you could make it out of old 12V rails taken off, laid seperately end to end and raised up on 1 or 2 (1x) plates. Have any of you (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)
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