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Re: Horseshoe Bend Rail Road - Rail Truck
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lugnet.trains
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Sun, 30 Apr 2006 00:01:10 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Tim David wrote:
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Matthew J. Chiles wrote:
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I just finished a new rail truck that I am rather proud of:
It is a color modified version of the Rio Grande Southern Motor #1 which
currently resides in Colorado’s Ridgeway Railroad Museum. My model is based
on the model of this by Bachmann, and is customized to my own Horseshoe Bend
Rail Road.
It is motorized with a regular geared 9V motor, powered by a 9V battery box
in the back of the truck. The drive wheels are Big Ben Brick small wheels.
-Matt :)
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Thats is really nice, curiously I was reading a magazine review of the
Bachmann model a couple of days ago. I love the way you have managed to fit
the ‘workings’ into the load space and keep the diminutive look of the cab
and hood. Its one of those MOCs thats just ‘right’ As a matter of interest
how fast does it go?
Tim
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I haven’t timed it but it does pretty good. Just about fast enough for
something like this, probably equivilant to around a settling of 3 (of 8) on the
9V speed controller. Fast enough to move nicely and not be speeding - I would
guess a scale speed of maybe 30 miles per hour. I am hoping that Lego will come
out with a universal 9V IR reciever only (without battery box built in), or that
one can be modded from the new IR train. With that component added a truck like
this would be remote controlled with variable speed and reverse, which would be
extremely cool.
I originally built this with a little red micro-motor, but it was barely
powerful enough to move it at all. And when it did go it was definately a crawl
(scale speed of around 2 miles per hour).
-Matt :)
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