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Re: First Third Party product for the LEGO(r) Trains market?
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 28 Apr 2003 03:46:05 GMT
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I hate to get on someone’s bad side right away but isn’t this track cleaner
cleaning the wrong part of the track? Unlike all other scales of trains Lego
trains get the power from the inside part of the rail. So basically this
track cleaner isn’t going to do much except make the track shinny.
OnDrew
In lugnet.announce, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> Pretty exciting news!
>
> This is posted on behalf of BayLTC's David (Zonker) Harris, with his
> permission (and request to so post), who related the following to me:
>
> - - - -
>
> My home machine has lost the cookie to post to LUGNET, and Todd's
> on a bus to Sacramento to catch his Amtrak train to Fresno...so, I'll post
> the scoop herre first, and follow-up to Lugnet.Trains tomorrow or Monday. ;-)
>
> The first model of this all-brass, limited-slip track cleaning car was run
> on the BayLTC display layout (demonstration set-up), and performed very
> well. Dick ans Sharon Webster at Centerline worked with me to develop the
> the model.
>
> Pictures at;
> http://www.baylug.org/zonker/AUT13362.JPG
> http://www.baylug.org/zonker/AUT13363.JPG
> http://www.baylug.org/zonker/AUT13364.JPG
>
> The body is their O-gauge product, but it needs extra machining and
> milling to fit the LEGO trucks. The price (without trucks) is $104, and can
> be ordered! It comes in a padded box, with extra cleaning rollers (which is
> a Good Thing, since you can see how dirty our track was by the grey stripes
> on the white roller...). They are in contact with Jake, and may offer a
> model that includes trucks. Wait and see if there is new news on that front.
>
> After a couple loops of a 20' x 32' layout (pushed in front of two locos
> and 17 freight cars), the engines were running more smoothly, and there was
> a noticable improvement (lack of slow-down in certain areas). We ran this in
> front of three different trains, to clean the wheels on the motors and
> rolling stock!
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> The Centerline web site is http://www.centerline-products.com/.
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> I'll be working on a short web page with more info and background this
> weekend, but I wanted to get the word out, in case there are any other clubs
> that might be looking for something to help clean their track at public
> displays. (BayLTC will be getting a second one, so we can run one on each of
> the main tracks of the display layout, while we're settig up buildings!)
>
> Regards,
>
> -Z-
>
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