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Re: Anyone built a curved bridge?
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 28 Sep 1999 05:35:53 GMT
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Paul Foster wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, John Neal writes:
> > I *thought* I had seen a better one! After going through about 20 of them, I
> > gave up;-) Hey Paul, what ever happened to the thumbs?
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> They never went anywhere. All the pics with "th" are thumbnails. There is
> an index at
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> http://reality.sgi.com/foster_stco/legopic/nmra/index1.html
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> that uses all the thumbnails but the stupid page takes forever to
> load with 53 thumbnails. Never did get back to figuring out why the
> page loads so slow. Can anybody offer a clue?
*That's* what I was looking for! Never noticed the slow download with my DSL
connection <gloat> :-)
-John
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> Paul
> > -John
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> > John Gerlach wrote:
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> > > In lugnet.trains, John Neal writes:
> > > > Paul Foster caught a picture of the GMLTC layout that barely shows our • curved
> > > > bridge. I wasn't able off hand to find a better one. Sorry:-( Perhaps • J-1
> > > or
> > > > J-3?
> > > > http://reality.sgi.com/foster_stco/legopic/nmra/gmltc5.jpg
> > > >
> > > > -John
> > >
> > > Here's a better picture (Thanks, Paul!):
> > > http://reality.sgi.com/foster_stco/legopic/nmra/gmltc10.jpg
> > >
> > > Basically, Conan lays the track down and builds the grey 'bed' to fit. Once
> > > that is done, he comes up with a support structure to hold it. Pretty darn
> > > clever he is... <grin>
> > >
> > > J1
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| Some theories: How big are the thumbnails? If they are still pretty big that will slow things down. A thumbnail should be no more than 20K or so, especially if you have scads of them. More importantly, are you using height= and width= tags on your (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.publish)
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| (...) They never went anywhere. All the pics with "th" are thumbnails. There is an index at (URL) uses all the thumbnails but the stupid page takes forever to load with 53 thumbnails. Never did get back to figuring out why the page loads so slow. (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains)
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