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Re: Getting diagonal track to line up properly?
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:29:45 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Brian Kendig wrote:
> Are there any web pages which have a study of how to line up Lego train
> layouts with diagonal track?
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> That is, I want a little more freedom in my layout than forcing it to
> always use ninety-degree curves and parallel/perpendicular tracks, but
> I've found that if I try to be *too* freeform, nothing lines up and I
> end up with two-inch gaps between the pieces I'm trying to connect.
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> If someone else has already done the math for how to make curves using
> one, two, or three pieces of standard 22.5-degree curved track and then
> get the track to line up properly and snap together firmly without
> having to rely on any 'wiggle room,' that would be a great help to me!
> Thanks!
I now this is an old thread but I was doing a search on attaching curved track
to base plates and had something to add to this thread.
I have a Brickshelf folder that I have not updated with current studies and
layouts recently. But I have many different LEGO track geometry that all connect
100% to make a loop. Different loops, turn-offs, turns, corners, angles, yards,
and such. This has many folders within folders I tried to keep the ideas
organized in some sort.
Main folder, many within,
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=72559
Enjoy
Mike Gallagher
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| OK, I'll add to an old thread too... Is there any software available for doing LEGO train layouts? I don't think this would have to be very complex -- just your several different kinds of track pieces, which you can drag around and arrange to see (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| Are there any web pages which have a study of how to line up Lego train layouts with diagonal track? That is, I want a little more freedom in my layout than forcing it to always use ninety-degree curves and parallel/perpendicular tracks, but I've (...) (22 years ago, 8-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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