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Re: Anyone built a curved bridge?
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Tue, 28 Sep 1999 05:35:53 GMT
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johnneal@NOMORESPAMuswest.net
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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?


They never went anywhere.  All the pics with "th" are thumbnails.  There is
an index at

http://reality.sgi.com/foster_stco/legopic/nmra/index1.html

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



Paul
-John

John Gerlach wrote:

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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  Re: Anyone built a curved bridge?
 
(...) I (...) And you can say that after all the complaining you do about usworst? Paul (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains)
  Re: Anyone built a curved bridge?
 
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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