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Re: Lessons learned in pre-school
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Fri, 21 Jan 2005 04:16:06 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Eric Strand wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, Christopher Masi wrote:
> > Since the kids love that full power setting, they would just floor it
> > the second they got to the controller. If that didn't pop a knuckle, and
> > it almost always did, then the second favorite maneuver was more than
> > sufficient to pop a knuckle. The second favorite thing to do was, of
> > course, rapidly change from full power foward to full power reverse and
> > back again. If I didn't get back in time to pop the power supply off the
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> Thanks for sharing that story! I was laughing as I read it because my own 3 year old daughter loves to take the motors OFF of my locomotive and run the motor by itself on the track. Much faster forward/reverse combinations are possible in this configuration :) Sometimes I will hook up a second transformer to the track and we'll "battle" because I can negate her controller and vice versa.
It seems kids not only like the high speed of Lego trains, they love to race
their trains against each other. Even on a standard dual oval track
(http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1070667)
they will race each other, although they know the trains are not running equal
distances.
So we have rigged up several equidistant tracks for the kids to properly race
their trains. They all require the use of crossings to separate the two tracks,
one for each train.
Overlapping ovals require just a pair of crossings:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1070685
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1070670
Overlapping figure of 8 tracks require four crossing:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1070671
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1070680
The figure of 8 tracks will fit into a 8 ft x 4 ft baseboard (size of FLL
field).
Unlike straight-track drag-racing, these tracks require skills to avoid
collisions. But sometimes, or too often, it seems collisions occur on purpose :)
C S
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| (...) Chris, Thanks for sharing that story! I was laughing as I read it because my own 3 year old daughter loves to take the motors OFF of my locomotive and run the motor by itself on the track. Much faster forward/reverse combinations are possible (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains)
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