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Subject: 
Re: Train history for Brickfest 2002
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.trains
Date: 
Sun, 9 Dec 2001 02:48:48 GMT
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In lugnet.events.brickfest, Cary Clark writes:
> In lugnet.events.brickfest, Frank Filz writes:
> ...
> > Hmm, one thing which would
> > be neat, a monorail spiral like Cary's to traverse from the train layout
> > height down to the floor...
> > 
> > Frank
> 
> OK, I'm up for the challenge. Chris, can you figure out how many bricks it
> is from the floor to the height of your monorail on the tabletop, give or
> take a few? My spiral is around 12 bricks high per loop, so I figure
> somewhere from 9 to 11 loops. I'll mock it up at home to see if I can really
> make something that big work.
> 
> I probably don't have enough supports to loop down to the floor and back up
> to the tabletop, though.

Cary,at this past years brickfest we used wamalugs tables...if we can get a
height from them i'm sure we can get something close.Someone mentioned a
spiral....at the last BF Troy C,Ken C. and myself built a spiral from a
stage to the floor just for kicks.(+ I had already setup my monorail on the
train tables).



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  Re: Train history for Brickfest 2002
 
In lugnet.events.brickfest, Frank Filz writes: ... (...) OK, I'm up for the challenge. Chris, can you figure out how many bricks it is from the floor to the height of your monorail on the tabletop, give or take a few? My spiral is around 12 bricks (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.trains)

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