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Re: Permanent outdoor train
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Mon, 5 Jul 1999 22:42:40 GMT
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You could do what LL USA did-- lay your own track.  Make it the same gauge as
9v, and use O scale rails.  Points might get tricky, but I think that would be
the way to go.

-John

Eric Brok wrote:

James Powell wrote in message ...


LEGO tracks are not fit for outside usage and as far as I know there is no
standard gauge close enough to use instead. Duplo trains will do better
though :-)


Eric, is this hard earned experence?

Please, share the details.  I'd think that they would be OK outside...what
happenes?  do they rust?  I don't think that they'd melt/distort too much • over
a year or so...Anyone got any real experence?


Sorry, no actual experience. I just *expect* them to rust from rain and
distort from sun heat.
If you don't care wasting your track over a year or so it may do ofcourse.

Eric



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  Purity and Re: Permanent outdoor train
 
I'm sure this has been brought up before, but this brings up an important point: is anything/method that any LL does to display a model considered "pure"? It seems unlikely that in laying track in LL Carlsbad that TLG actually made track but rather (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)

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  Re: Permanent outdoor train
 
James Powell wrote in message ... (...) over (...) Sorry, no actual experience. I just *expect* them to rust from rain and distort from sun heat. If you don't care wasting your track over a year or so it may do ofcourse. Eric (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)

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