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Re: New MOC:TGV in Orange
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Thu, 17 Jun 1999 21:36:37 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Carrie Whitcher writes:
> James, you are to be commended!! Bravo, if Lego would only make decent
> sets such as yours...
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> Carrie
> > > http://www.ee.nmt.edu/~jmathis/legopage.html
Thanks. One of beauties of LEGO: You can build your own, the way you like it.
Just some new comments about the orange TGV. I have had some time to revise
the shared bogie coupler between the passenger cars. This newer design has no
extra pivot pieces, as the older design did. The only built-in pivot is on the
bogie plate. There are two "tongues" that fit into the ends of the adjacent
passenger cars: one tongue into each car. One of the tongues only translates
"in-line" with the length of the car. The other tongue can both translate
"in-line" with the length of the car AND rotate along that translation: this
rotation and translation is nearly identical to the coupler used for the BOB
train. All the cars are still connected by using yellow LEGO rubber bands.
I have also been able to add a third passenger car to the orange TGV. No
pictures, yet. This makes the train 5 units long. With the new shared bogie
coupler design the train snakes more smoothly through complex "S" curvy-curves.
Having two shared bogies on the train really makes a difference in the entire
look of the train. Through straight-aways the train's looks just scream for
full-throttle speed! I only wish I could say that the train could enter and
take a curve of 90 degrees at full throttle, but it can't. Just too much speed
for its design.
Even though I don't think the real TGV Sud-Est in orange has any double deck
observation cars, the third passenger car uses the 4559 Cargo Railway hinged
canopy trans-light blue windows and has two levels. I wish I could've used the
2 brick tall thin wall trans-light blue windows and kept the same look for each
passenger car, but I don't have *that* many of those windows.
Using the rubber bands to keep the cars close-coupled really makes the train
look quite sleek on the straight-aways, even though it does look a bit more
ungainly on the outside of a section of curved track. Need some kind of LEGO
expandable bellows between the cars to expand along the outside diameter
through curves to maintain a more "solid" and connected look.
Thanks to all who visit the pictures.
later,
James Mathis
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| (...) Yeah, I know what you mean. I'm working on an articulation scheme that addresses that very point. So far no true success. But I'm still entertaining some more ideas, so the jury is still out. I'll share all my juicy secrets (assuming that this (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: New MOC:TGV in Orange
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| (...) it. (...) the (...) curves. (...) speed (...) the (...) each (...) Hey james I have played with makeing highspeed lego rail. Not much to it realy just place a 2x4 standard brick on the outside of the curve at the track joints. I have done this (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: New MOC:TGV in Orange
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| (...) revise (...) no (...) the (...) adjacent (...) translates (...) this (...) BOB (...) I've been working on my Thalys rendition, this weekend focussing on the close couplings. I designed two versions, one for a shared bogie and one for (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jun-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| James, you are to be commended!! Bravo, if Lego would only make decent sets such as yours... Carrie (...) trains, (...) allows (...) also (...) in (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.trains)
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