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a new carrier...almost
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 20 Sep 1999 21:57:53 GMT
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cmasi@cmasi.NOMORESPAMchem.tulane.edu
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I almost made a car carrier, but I ran out of parts.
The car carrier is here
http://cmasi.chem.tulane.edu/~lego/trains/rolling%20stock/rolling_stock.htm
the homepage is
http://cmasi.chem.tulane.edu/~lego/
Comments appreciated!
Christopher
The text describing the car:
This is probably a never to be finished
model. The original plans called for a double-deck
car carrier which would have made the model
13 bricks tall, not including trucks. But I
estimate that it would have taken 350 to 364
1x4 gray plates. I scaled back so I could test
some design ideas. The baseplate is 2 plates
thick, the first level is 5 bricks high (needs
to be 1 plate higher), and a second level,
only 1 brick in height, was added to test the
concept. The short form of the model uses
210 1x4 plates; I built one side of the model
(other side). (I have enough plates for 3
more gray sections, but why bother...) The cool
thing about this model is that it is see
through just like the real ones. I used loops of bare
20 gauge solid copper wire so I could snap
the bricks together without completely
snapping the bricks together. There are
spaces between the plates! The other wierd thing
about this model....(drum roll
please)...cars do not fit in 4 wide spaces (door handles get in
the way) so a 6 wide train car is not wide
enough (drums getting louder) but a 7 wide
base creates a 5 wide interior.... THIS IS A
SEVEN WIDE TRAIN CAR (when will the
insanity stop). Here is a picture of a car
inside the car carrier; of course, when I took the
picture I forgot to make certain that
trouble causing door handle was visible. With 7 wide
trains the trucks must be attached in a
nonstandard manner, but the solution is straight
forward. Stick the studs IN the tubes and
the hole is back in the middle again. (Of course
round plates are not necessary and neither
is the large square hole in the floor; blame it
on laziness and a lack of 2x2 plates.)
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| (...) That *is* insane... that you stopped at seven and didn't keep going to eight!!{:^D I like the car; are you sure there is no "all LEGO" solution to creating that cool gap in the 1x4 plates? How about flowers jammed up under the plates? -John (...) (25 years ago, 21-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains)
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