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Train table construction and securing track
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 18 Jun 1999 15:59:05 GMT
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I'm wondering how people secure their track to their train tables. I've
been thinking about the possibility of building up a foundation of
bricks to be able to have some scenery below track level. I know someone
has a web page which shows some "close enough" points to secure curved
track, but I'm curious as to how various people have dealt with this
issue.
I'm not planning on as thick a foundation as GMLTC uses, but would like
at least a couple bricks high. I've also toyed with the idea of building
a roadbed, which of course would give me an extra brick or two height
with only a tremendous number of bricks as opposed to an obscene number
of bricks - can you say lots of black slopes service packs?
Hm, just did some math, maybe I won't be building a foundation, my 4'x6'
table will consume about 4350 2x4 bricks for EACH layer.... That would
probably end up being 6 or more 1200pc tubs per layer (using all bricks
in the tub). Man, Conan has a lot of bricks...
Maybe instead I'll use a scheme of raising baseplates (only need the
area of about 34 32x32 base plates - still a lot, plus about 300 2x2 or
so bricks per layer to make suppors (using 9 columns per baseplate)). Or
maybe I'll skip the idea entirely (of course the real cheating way would
be to make a "cookie cutter" table just like a normal model railroad).
--
Frank Filz
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Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com
Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com
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| I've been working on building a roadbed for the track with plates. So far I've only got roadbed under 1 straight, 4 curves and then 2 more straights. It's looking pretty good so far but I've got a long way to go. I haven't been able to work on it (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.trains)
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