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Subject: 
Re: Brickish Railways newcomer
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Fri, 2 Nov 2001 14:07:21 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Simon Bennett writes:
In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
Just take a look at the instruction of 2126. It works with the same design,
that you should use.

http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/2000/2126/2126-03.jpg

Kind Regards,

Ben


Thanks Ben, that's really useful and thank you for taking the time to find
it for me but... aaargh that's horrible.  I hope no-one in .trains takes
this the wrong way but buffer beams are attached to the solebar of a rail
vehicle,

In Real Life, yes.

But examine other tight radius model railway systems and you find the same
compromise, the couplers go on the trucks. This gives poor performance in
reverse, but allows tight curves without easements where body mounted
couplers would derail. Try it yourself and see.

Scale modelers who build cars that only have to operate on the generous
curves of large club layouts use body mounted couplers.

not the bogie truck and those wheelsets are too close together to
look right.  So this poses (not 'begs' :)) two more questions:

How do you do a Co-Co bogie when the wheelsets are 3-long?

See Tom Cook's pages, or many others as well. You have to craft something on
the end of the motor and make it articulate somehow.

Does anyone else modify their RS to put the couplers and buffers
on the chassis?

Not me. Doesn't work for me because of the reasons I gave. When/if TLC
releases a larger radius track... maybe then. You'll have to give up on the
wagon plates though. I know I did.



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  Re: Brickish Railways newcomer
 
(...) Thanks Ben, that's really useful and thank you for taking the time to find it for me but... aaargh that's horrible. I hope no-one in .trains takes this the wrong way but buffer beams are attached to the solebar of a rail vehicle, not the bogie (...) (23 years ago, 2-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains)

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