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Train(ee) newbie wants to know how large table?
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Fri, 10 Jan 2003 07:57:17 GMT
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Hi all!
During the past six months I've been trying to decide weather to start with
LEGO trains or not. The local toystore has both the 4565 Fraight & Crane
Railway and 4561 Railway Express, another local toystore has a large chunk of
the S@H My Own Train line with a few cars etc.. (I live in Sweden).
The price is a major concern and I've set the boxes down several times waiting
for clearance sales.
Yesterday I got the chance to by 4559 Cargo Railway and 4552 Cargo Crane along
with some extra rail second hand for $85 and I took the chance.
I have now touched my first trainparts and derailed, put obstacles on the rail
and fooled around a tad. I liked it and will most certainly "get into trains"
for real. Thus I consider myself a Train(ee) newbie :)
Over to the question after this redicoulus long introduction;
I'm moving to a bigger apartment and will get my very own room for LEGO so I
can have a table for a permanent train layout. This is a unique opurtunity I
guess.
How large table do I need for a small layout? My collection is in the 40K range
so I wont add a town around the layout (for now) just the train itself and a
few extras. I own 10 straigts, 24 curved and 2 switching rails. I will probably
get more. I will build my own table so I'm not restricted to default table
sizes, still I don't have *that* much space.
I realize this might be a difficult question but I hope to get a feeling for
the size needed and then adopt it into my own world :)
With many thanks in advance,
/Tobbe
http://www.lotek.nu
(remove SPAM when e-mailing)
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| Welcome to trains, Tobbe. If you haven't discovered it yet, Track Designer is a nice utility to help plan layout designs. You can find it at the Lego Train Depot at the following link: (URL) Other good ways for getting plan ideas are to review the (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Train(ee) newbie wants to know how large table?
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| In lugnet.trains, Tobbe Arnesson writes: <snip> My advice is to check out the online resources for table designs... scan the club websites. At least PNLTC and MichLUG and the Brickish Association have their table designs on line. After you do that, (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Train(ee) newbie wants to know how large table?
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| (...) along (...) hehehe... you will be assimilated! (...) range (...) a (...) probably (...) Good advice from others. Bear in mind: You need 30" width of table for the track to turn 180 degrees. If you have 2 tracks running parallel, you need more (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Train(ee) newbie wants to know how large table?
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| In lugnet.trains, Tobbe Arnesson writes: <snip> (...) Hello there Tobbe, I live in a studio apartment and have room to mount my layout on a 30"× 72" banquet table w/folding legs. Featuring an oval with a passing siding, I intend to incorporate a (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Train(ee) newbie wants to know how large table?
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| (...) Tobbe, Tobbe.... In August 2000 me and my SO was in Billund, and we bought our first 4561 at an auction there, for DKK 610. Already then did my housebound say: "We can afford one train, but not the consequences of starting to collect trains". (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains)
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