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Okay, another new colour's come along, so I had to build something. I set out to do a hopper wagon, but ended up with this 5-wide narrow-gauge steam engine. And yes, Larry, you're allowed to refer to this one as 'cute' if you must... :-) (URL) even (...) (22 years ago, 18-Mar-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) ALL critters are cute. Some are cuter than others... this is one of the cutest! Nice work. But if you want to impress me, motorize it! (22 years ago, 18-Mar-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yeah, right, I'll just use one of those dark blue micro-motors that we all have lying around the house... >:-/ Jason (22 years ago, 18-Mar-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Well, if you really feel the need to impress Larry for some strange reason, you could always try to fit a red micro-motor into a freight car of some sort. I had a four-wide "critter" locomotive with a micro-motor in it. Ran fine, but (...) (22 years ago, 18-Mar-03, to lugnet.trains)
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<joke> <snip> (...) </snip> Impress Lar? Riiiiiiight... Never happen. He's been there, done that, and built a better one than you could ever dream of! :P </joke> -Rob (22 years ago, 18-Mar-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I was thinking that too, though as I said I've run out of 1x3 buffers. (...) I don't have any curves, but it wouldn't work exactly right. If you think of a 90° corner that goes up and turns right to form an 'r'. Move the inner rail two studs (...) (22 years ago, 18-Mar-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Rob, the last thing I dream of is diesels... Jason R (22 years ago, 18-Mar-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I've thought of that problem, too. I *think* it could be solved by building a figure-8 track. The outter tracks on each curve would be longer than the inner tracks, but by having them opposite they would cancel each other out. OK, time to dig (...) (22 years ago, 18-Mar-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) That wouldn't work on its own. Firstly you'd need a bridge, since a regular crossing wouldn't be any use. Secondly, there's no way you could keep the tracks 2 studs apart around a 270° arc without lengthening the inner rail somewhere. Even a (...) (22 years ago, 18-Mar-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Didn't say it would be EASY. Said .... "if you want to impress me, motorize it!" If it was easy I would have done it by now myself. (22 years ago, 18-Mar-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) it (...) Not to mention the relative radii of the short & long rails would be wrong, so you'd end up with the rails wider apart at each joint than in the middle. This may not be enough to make it unusable, however, depending what wheels you (...) (22 years ago, 18-Mar-03, to lugnet.trains)
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Awesome steamer!!! The dk. blue of course, looks very nice, but the SNOT work is impressive. Now put working side rods on it! :^P If only, eh? On a serious note, I thought the term "critter" only referred to those little industrial diesels. (...) (22 years ago, 19-Mar-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Well, maybe not this one. Let's wait and see what the next colour to come along is... ;-) Jason R (22 years ago, 19-Mar-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) OK Larry, just for you. I now have a fully working miniature railway, and, believe it or not, it's all powered from the track. But, you're not going to see it until after Duncan Titmarsh's Fest at Aldershot. So there. Jason R (22 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.trains)
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