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Re: Moonbase: Nailing down Moonway and Rail Standard
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lugnet.space, lugnet.trains
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Date:
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Tue, 11 May 2004 00:26:02 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Mark Bellis wrote:
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If anyone makes half straights or quarter straights (8 per circuit on the
layout) you could move the track by a smaller amount.
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No official Moonbase standard should ever hinge upon customized pieces. If
someone wants to make them for their own personal collection and use them to
tweak the track layout for some reason, that’s one thing, but requiring that
people start cutting up their own track just to fit with the Space Train specs
isn’t a good idea. There are too many people who have issues with part-modding.
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Alternatively, a different level might help. Will the specification of a
space train permit track slopes of more than 2 plates per straight, or is
that unrealistic in your scheme? Raise the train track above the race track
by at least 2 bricks height and the overhang will be OK as long as the trains
aren’t there together (interesting operation to keep them apart!).
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No matter how long I think of this, I just keep seeing a Moontruck clipping the
side of a long ore-hauling car. Since December, I’ve always been thinking of
Space Train as a bunch of short, single-bogey cars that stick to the curves
really well, but if people are going to make full-length cars, they’re going to
overhang the curve interiors quite a bit.
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Raise further and as steep as 5 plates per straight if the spec allows it.
You could have the space train acting like a big dipper through a crater!
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It’d probably make more sense to run the Moonway above the modules and the Space
Train below them. Monorail is already perceived as being the standard
people-mover, with Space Train being more cargo-oriented (and therefore more
likely to be restricted to ground level), but Moontrucks also look like they’re
going to require a lot more vertical clearance than Space Train, so running it
over the corridor connections would address that issue as well.
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