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Re: What's the longest distance your train has run?
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:45:09 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, John Gerlach wrote:
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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!
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At last year’s Festival of Trees here in Atlanta, the NGLTC had a small 6’x6’
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 train a break, I was
wrong. The power stayed on 24 hours for 9 days, so our train ran the entire
time. On the last day it was running a bit slower but it was still running. I
think the joints on the couplers showed the most wear, other than that it worked
like a charm.
jt
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| (...) BayLTC is currently in the midst of a month-long display at a local history museum that is running a special exhibit on trains. Since we are operating it five days a week, much of that unattended except by museum docents, we set it up on a (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| The GMLTC was in Moorhead, Minnesota for the 27th Annual (URL) 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 (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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