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What's the longest distance your train has run?
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 28 Jun 2004 15:08:41 GMT
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The GMLTC was in Moorhead, Minnesota for the 27th Annual
Scandinavian Hjemkomst Festival last weekend.
We had a straight-line layout, they had us set up in a long hallway so we used
six straight modules with a couple empty tables, and left two corner modules in
the trailer. We had just over 100’ of track in a long ‘dogbone’ setup.
So my question - what’s the longest distance one of your trains has run during a
show? One of the kids watching the layout timed
my SD-50
around the layout, and I did a little math and came up with the fact that it
traveled over 28 miles (45 kilometers) Saturday & Sunday. 9 hours Saturday
with just a couple of brief stops to re-rail train cars or re-attach cars that
got uncoupled, and another 6 hours on Sunday with just a couple more brief
stops. I kept telling people I was going to “run it till it stopped”, and it
just didn’t stop!
JohnG, GMLTC
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: What's the longest distance your train has run?
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| (...) So you're not counting stops, just total distance travelled? MichLTC tends to rotate trains in and out of service a lot so that no one train runs the whole time, making us not a contender. But if total distance travelled during a show is the (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | Re: What's the longest distance your train has run?
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| (...) At last year's Festival of Trees here in Atlanta, the NGLTC had a small 6'x6' (URL) loop set up under our tree display>. I had originally thought that the festival would shut down the power each night during the 9 day festival, thus giving the (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | Re: What's the longest distance your train has run?
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| (...) I like the SD50. The outer circuit main line of my layout measures 13.53m (90 straights + 16 curves). The speed of the train is 2mph around this circuit, a scale speed of 78mph in 8mm:1ft scale (the maximum speed at which no derailments (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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