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(...) I custom build my baseplates using regular plate, 3 layers thick with 2x4 technic plates built in to accept the bogie pin. I place the technic plate length wise on one layer and sideways on the other. I find the 6x train bases too resticting (...) (20 years ago, 5-Jul-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) For short trucks with four wheels I use a standard 6x24 baseplate with 2xn plates along the edges (see brakevans from the link below) and make the single pairs of wheels rotate a bit with small belts to pull them back to straight. This is (...) (20 years ago, 4-Jul-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hello Adam , There are a few ways ,it can be done! If you are building no longer than 28 studs. Then use a 6 wide train base and put 2 wide plates on the edges of it. That would be the easiest way. I have used a 6 wide train base in my 8 wide (...) (20 years ago, 4-Jul-04, to lugnet.trains)
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Ladies and gents, I am hoping to build some 8 wide trains, but I'm curious as to what the best method for 8 wides in terms of the base. Do you use a regular 6 wide train base or make your own 8 wide train base or ??? (20 years ago, 4-Jul-04, to lugnet.trains)
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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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Distance? Doesn't every LTC have at least *one* Mindstorms little speed/distance computer, built into a train car? :-) Remember the PNLTC Guinness World Record event in 2000? I guess, from now on, we'll have to build up a car to measure the (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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"Bill Ward" <bill@wards.net> wrote in message news:I01Cus.1vIB@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) history (...) operating it (...) it up (...) minuts (...) what (...) We (NCLTC) have done two Christmas layouts at a local mall. The first year (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I'm lazy too, let's get that straight, but I am also a numbers man.. a very, very, extremely, conservative estimate would be 600 miles. More realistic is 1400 miles. This is based on number of show days (40+), minimals hours/day (5), and (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) ...mmm... ...bridges... Bridges need to have lights on top for aircraft avoidance, and if they're across navigable channels, marker lights at the span bottom for the ship traffic to know where the channels are, and streetlights if they're road (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jun-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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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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(...) I'm definitely not going to look at normal "mods" with the same enthusiasm now. You're right... (...) It took a month of drilling and wiring working on it about 5-6 hours a week. I'd say there are about 100 elements that have been touched by (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jun-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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rtlTers: Sorry for the cross post to rtlT but you'll see why! (...) "The Plastic Dust is Normal"...(1) but the squeaking isn't! (...) 1 - (URL) (20 years ago, 28-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) It will make everything plain now. How much drilling and cutting did you have to do to make it all fit? -Lenny (20 years ago, 28-Jun-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) They said that they turned the trains off at night, but I am still not sure that they did. I probably should have kept the motor as it was... or maybe photo-documented its condition. It was really dirty with black dust; and it squeaked. I (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Too bad! Would have been much cooler to send it to Consumer Affairs, I bet they would love to do some analysis on it back in Billund. I THOUGHT it was you guys that would have the record (for now...) (20 years ago, 28-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I am not sure what the total distance was, nor would I want to calculate it (1); however, it was my metroliner that ran the outer loop at the shrine show. Nearly 40 days, non-stop during the operating hours, same direction, almost full (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains)
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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)
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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)
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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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(...) i'm really frightened...run little bricks, run ! :) (...) Your mods are cool Rob. This one is another great one applied to buildings. This time more room (space?) to put the batteries ! Mods are maybe not for purist but when they are "clean" , (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jun-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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