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(...) Ah, well, you lost me. I never said anything about 36"; the "3" in On3 is short for 30"... Actually, I was shooting from the hip in my initial post-- I just found that link after your post-- weren't you blathering something about HOn3? :-) (...) (22 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | AdeLUG's #5 - Write up
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Here is the write up for the Adelaide LEGO Users Group meeting #5 It can also be found at the AdeLUG's website: (URL) - AdeLUG's #5, Sunday 10 November 2002 THEME - Moonbase Project VENUE - Holdfast Bay Community Centre, Hove (about 20mins (...) (22 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.au.sa.ade, lugnet.castle, lugnet.fabuland, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Train that runs on tires.
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Hi, Here is a page with some good prototype information: (URL) top of the page is the history of the system, the bottom shows the current implementation (including what happens if a tire runs flat...). Greetings, David (...) (22 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Getting diagonal track to line up properly?
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(...) The 1-11-3 design isn't very close at all, according to Track Designer. Here's what I did: straight, curve right, 11 straights (5 switches and a straight, but that is equivalent), 3 curves right, cross-track. Then from the cross-track, a bunch (...) (22 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Getting diagonal track to line up properly?
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(...) This is very interesting... Is there a similar formula for a dog-leg? 1 curve, X straights, 1 curve the other way? What equations/formulae would you use to compute this? It's been way too many years since I studied trigonometry... --Bill. (22 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Shay #5
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Hey that's really nice, I like the details. Eric (22 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Getting diagonal track to line up properly?
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(...) Since a couple people commented on this one I figured I'd mention that over the weekend I came up with a "folded-figure-eight" that avoids the use of points on the inner loop but still fits on my table: (URL) it requires one more curved track (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Train that runs on tires.
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(...) I think there are other airport transport systems which also use tired vehicles. (...) I seem to remember seeing pictures of the Paris subways with tires. If I'm recalling right, they had horizontal tires also which run against the walls of a (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Shay #5
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(...) I stand corrected. The shays at Cass are indeed standard guage. (22 years ago, 11-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Train that runs on tires.
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(...) Hmmm, The subway system in Paris France has trains that run on tires. I was rather supprised when I saw them. I don't remember exactly how they stayed on the track though. From what I understand the paris subway has several different styles of (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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