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Re: O-Train
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 16 Mar 2005 20:24:32 GMT
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Jason Allemann wrote:
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Once the show ended, with more time on my hands, I took the opportunity to
try and improve the design a bit. I’m pretty sure I spent more time getting
rid of the spacing than building the entire train in the first place. In the
end I went with an elastic band solution, as you can see in the pics. I’m
sure the more experienced train builders would have gotten to this solution a
lot quicker, if not having done it right from the start, but it was all new
to me. Of course I didn’t find out until afterwards that it seems to be a
relatively common technique. A little research beforehand would have
probably saved me a lot of time. Oh well, I enjoyed the problem solving
exercise.
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Jason,
I haven’t kept up to pace on close-coupling of train cars, but I’m really
impressed by your solution. It is low-profile, shared trucks, and looks very
clean, simple, and straight-forward. A fresh-look by you without working
knowledge of other close-coupling techniques seems to have generated another
slick solution. My apologies to those who may have similar solutions with which
I am unfamiliar.
Anyway, well done, beautiful MOC of a nice train set.
Thanks for posting details on this Talent train project. I had seen it in some
of the scenic pics from the show, and was certainly curious about it.
later,
James Mathis
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| (...) <snip> (...) Cool, thanks! I'm glad you like it. It certainly took a lot of experimentation to get there. Looking back I'm not really sure why, since it seems so simple now. I'm sure prior knowledge of existing solutions would have affected (...) (20 years ago, 17-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (URL) All aboard the (URL)! Built for ParLUGment's Winterlude 2005 train layout, the O-Train is a light passenger train that runs a commuter route through Ottawa. According to the (URL) website> it is a Bombardier Talent BR643 DMU. I'm sure someone (...) (20 years ago, 16-Mar-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, FTX) !!
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