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Re: need advice on/ideas for the train setup I am working on
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Date: 
Thu, 22 Nov 2001 19:35:59 GMT
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Well, I gots space trucks! http://people.atl.mediaone.net/kindustries/mcs/
My suggestion for your version is to make them modular. Modular is good :-D

Good luck!

--Kyle
http://hvl.cjb.net

In lugnet.trains, Jonathan Wilson writes:
> I am going to be starting work on a futuristic (but still true to life
> as far as operations go) freight setup, when my 4561 arrives.
> The general story is that this is a manufacturing town, making stuff
> that gets shipped to the freight terminal by container then offplanet by
> spacetruck
> The train itself will have an engine (running on some kind of futuristic
> power source), a car for passengers, mail, small cargo, spare parts etc
> and a container wagon (using the drop bed base from the 4561)
> There will also be some buildings of some sort (gotta have some kind of
> freight terminal)
> And there will be some landing pads etc for the spacetrucks as well as
> the spacetrucks themselves.
> 
> My questions are:
> 1.what structures, support equipment etc would you find around a typical
> freight terminal? What sort of MOW/track repair vechicles might be seen
> in such a setup? Would a handcart be appropriate? I wont be having a
> crane (since this is the future and the containers have some kind of
> antigrav or something) but what else would you find?
> 2.any resources, pictures (lego or otherwise) of (present day) freight
> terminals out there?
> 3.are there any good sites about the freight trains themselves, what
> sorts of cars they have, pictures etc? In particular, I need pictures of
> container wagons. Pictures of lego freight stuff is also good.
> 4.are there any resources that detail the different types of freight
> cars (hoppers, boxcars, flatcars, coal cars etc)?



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I am going to be starting work on a futuristic (but still true to life as far as operations go) freight setup, when my 4561 arrives. The general story is that this is a manufacturing town, making stuff that gets shipped to the freight terminal by (...) (25 years ago, 22-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.space)

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