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Re: Moonbase: Starting to put up the rail standard
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lugnet.space, lugnet.trains
Date: 
Tue, 16 Sep 2003 18:32:00 GMT
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Jon Palmer wrote:
"Xanthra47" <jmantor@nycap.rr.com> wrote in message
news:HLBF8K.800@lugnet.com...

Yeah.  I'll retract those two rules.  They are too limiting.  I tried to
build a sample train/corridor model and it just doesn't fit : (
I think if we're going to do trains we need to revisit the corridor
height/setback again.  Even the new 10 brick height spec isn't enough
for a metroliner-ish train to clear : (  I think we need 12 bricks high
and 6 studs of setback.  That'd let us run 8 or 10 wide trains between
modules with no problems.  Check out this pic to see what I mean.

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/xanthra47/moonbase/traincar.jpg



Now that I disagree with.  I don't think the standard should bend because we
need tall trains.  Just make em short.  Like Larry said, even some mining
carts are only 48" tall.

That's great and all but most people don't commute to work in mining
carts : P  We can live with the height, I guess, but what about the
width ?  An eight stud wide road isn't even wide enough to get realistic
cargo containers through : (  10 would be workable, but 12 would be better.



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(...) This is going to be impossible to nail down until an actual layout is done at NWBrickCon (hope I spelled that right). Some modules don't have connectors on all sides. I think that someone should take track at NWBC and use it to eyeball trouble (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.trains)

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  Re: Moonbase: Starting to put up the rail standard
 
"Xanthra47" <jmantor@nycap.rr.com> wrote in message news:HLBF8K.800@lugnet.com... (...) Now that I disagree with. I don't think the standard should bend because we need tall trains. Just make em short. Like Larry said, even some mining carts are (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.trains)

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