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Re: New Poll
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Tue, 7 Jan 2003 17:17:57 GMT
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Hi Ben and John,
first my name is written Meier, not Meyer. Ben will never learn this ;-)
For sure, it makes a real big difference. Mostly all freight cars before the
2nd world war have been 2 axle cars in Germany, same applies to other
european countries. Some of them are really long.
See here for pictures of my swiss SBB wine car:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=25385
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=195156
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=195157
The rubber band steering mechanism works good. But do not expect to pull
more than 4 waggons with a 2 motor engine! And curves must be interleaved
with straights, otherwise the train becomes very slow.
My engines BR 101 or V200 have a weight of 1,050 kg! So weight does matters.
You always need two motors for the engines.
Dirk
"Reinhard "Ben" Beneke" <r.beneke@tu-bs.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:H8Cr3A.KJF@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.trains, John Neal writes:
> > In lugnet.trains, Kevin Loch writes:
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> > Nine would be okay, but going odd width all of the time is a pain, so I • stick
> > with 8 wide. As long as you are willing to go up to 7 wide (more odd • widths),
> > why not just add the extra stud? There *can't* be that much difference • in
> > weight or brick count.
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> I have do disagree somewhat, John!
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> There IS in fact much difference. At least in one point which is quite
> important for classic Eurotrash: ask for e.g. Dirk 'Rollingbricks' Meyer • for
> his problems with 8-wide 2-axle cars (as they have been and partly still • are
> very common over here).
> In 7-wide I am able to build my cars up to a length of 20 studs which • means I
> can make 4-wheelers (with 8...9(10?) studs space between wheel blocks) • without
> any trouble in curved track.
> For any longer waggon you have to add a steering mechanism which affords • more
> height, more weight etc. At least my way of 7-wides is differing not too • much
> from most official 6-wides, so it is in fact a bigger jump to 8 (wider,
> higher + much longer) than to 6 (only somewhat narrower and shorter).
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> But I am sure, there are ways to build heavy 7-wides as well as • lightweighted
> 8-wides. But 95% of all 8-wide builders around try to press as much • details as
> possible into their models, that these are at least twice as heavy than my
> models.
> And we have lots of 8-wide fans here in the FGLTC - I could mention more
> builders of 8-wide than 6 wide now.
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> Kind regards,
>
> Ben
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| (...) I noticed the gaff, but didn't want to embarrass Rhinehart;-D (...) I don't normally make 2 axle cars, but I did create an Annie and Claribel for my Thomas the Tank Engine recently. These cars are British, and while they are pretty straight (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) widths), (...) I have do disagree somewhat, John! There IS in fact much difference. At least in one point which is quite important for classic Eurotrash: ask for e.g. Dirk 'Rollingbricks' Meyer for his problems with 8-wide 2-axle cars (as they (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains)
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