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(...) As I was typing I was remembering that that may be a problem. I know the blue one's won't work (they won't even fit over the studs on the middle tie in grey 4.5v/12v track. Frank (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) The helix is so cool. As far as 12v conductors go, I've found that they need to be modified slightly to fit over the studs on the added ties. Did you find a way around this? Mark (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(URL) (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I think those old power pickups would be the way to go. The slightly newer ones have a thin enough pin to be able to be plugged into a 12v wire. Of course "pure" solution would be to use a 12v motor, but a little cutting of wire would provide (...) (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) That should say: When transitioning from CURVED to tangent track... (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) This swing out and back in is prototypical! See, for instance "Top Gun" at Paramount King's Island or "Iron Dragon" at Cedar Point. These are instances of a class of coaster called "suspended" roller coasters and have bogies that run on (...) (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Heee, heee....I mean: sorry. ;-) Have fun! later, James Mathis (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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That's a really cool idea - you've now put me off building houses completely as I try to work out how to do a hanging railway of my own! Jason J Railton (...) (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Cool! (...) You could provide a bit of friction in the rotating mount. This'll reduce the swing-out effect as well, but should solve the "swing-in" problem. You could try squeezing the bushes together further than normal. This can increase the (...) (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Robin, I sure do remember your Sky Train model. Several years old, if I remember correctly. Good show! Some success on real-brick-build: Tonight I have built a real-brick working version of this under rail system. The height of the track (...) (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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I just finished cleaning up the looks of this locomotive a bit. I wasn't happy with the overall appearance before, but I'll let you decide. PLMKWYT as this is my second ever locomotive. (URL) Hendrix" <rmhendrix@hotmail.com> wrote in message (...) (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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James, Great idea for a system! I may have to look into this design... You may have seen them before, but here are some pictures of working overhead supported light rail model I built for the Sky Train Corporation. The Sky Train is full automated (...) (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) And I just thought, doesn't power still get through to the straight track as the loco passes a "reversed" switch in the wrong direction and pushes the switching rail out of the way? I had an idea the switching of power was done with trickery (...) (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) If you arranged it as a passing loop, with power to the passing track, you could have one of the switches straight depending on which way it was going. Possibly even work out an automatic control that switched them depending on the direction (...) (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yep. (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Thanks to everyone for all the suggestions and references! I hope this project continues to improve. And, I look forward to seeing any other tries (and success!) if you're so inspired :-) !! later, James Mathis (...) (22 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) if you just look hard enough" but I think in this case I am not going to say that. :-) I looked, fairly hard, but have not found one... yet. However I WILL say that this will really rock if you can pull it off. The closest real trains come to (...) (22 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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(...) I like it. Good idea. Thanks. (...) Ah, I don't think I've seen this. Thanks. Off to look... Woah! That's impressive: (URL) Mathis (22 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Here's a few pictures I took of the April 17th PNLTC gathering where we built a helix for Ben Fleskes: (URL) had a lot of fun running trains up and down. It took almost 20 seconds for a car to coast down the whole thing. We played with a variety of (...) (22 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Wow! This is pretty darn neat. I really like the look of the underhanging car. Seeing one of these going around a layout would be very cool. (...) I would be concerned about this as well. I look forward to seeing where this goes. (...) -Jason (...) (22 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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