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Re: Track side poles (was Re: Track side power polls.
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 24 Mar 2005 09:25:09 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, David VinZant wrote:
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> > I have a nother question, are these poles tall enough? (keeping with the scale
> > of the 1x1's) Should I make them taller or shorter?
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> In order: Yes, Yes and Yes.
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> Hope that helps!
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> More seriously, these poles (1) come in all heights, depending on the
> application. Telegraph poles, especially older ones, tend to be quite low, you
> could reach the wires with a stepladder, and other poles vary in height
> depending on the application, voltage, whether they carry both power and phone,
> etc etc.
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> Note that the only poles that deliberately run along railway lines were
> telegraph, because the railways were the first telegraph users and ran private
> lines for their own use. The others only run there because it's a good right of
> way.
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> But these poles are great for use in cities too...
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> 1 - note the spelling! the pedant in me tried once to suggest the subject line
> was off, but it didn't take... I see YOU caught it though!
I did make the changes to my MOC's page. I guess I should have hit F7 before
posting. But then again its not like I am righting j/k, writing a term paper
here. ;)
Dave
www.GPLR.org
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| (...) In order: Yes, Yes and Yes. Hope that helps! More seriously, these poles (1) come in all heights, depending on the application. Telegraph poles, especially older ones, tend to be quite low, you could reach the wires with a stepladder, and (...) (20 years ago, 23-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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