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Re: Latest track features and layout module developments
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Sun, 11 Jun 2006 16:49:39 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Mark Bellis wrote:
> Here are pictures of LEGO representations of the TPWS and AWS train protection
> systems used in the UK, which use equipment mounted between the rails:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1830436
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1830437
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> In both cases I've used translucent orange wands, in the absence of opaque ones,
> to represent the cable conduits that connect the equipment to the trackside
> cubicles.
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> Also my latest railway layout module, a fiddle yard point module:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1830441
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> This requires composite beams to be made from 2xn plates, in order to carry the
> weight of the station, which sits on top, over places where no stanchions can be
> used due to the train needing the space as it travels over the points. I'll be
> using several modules like this one in the fans of points in the fiddle yard of
> my new layout.
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> I've used a monkey motor to switch the points, as it should be more reliabile
> than a mod to the point slider and a micro-motor:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1830438
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1830439
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> The gearing works well, so that the clutch gear doesn't slip till the point has
> changed. I have to work on reliabiity of fixing the gear frames down to the
> point lever frame as i can currently prize itself off after a few overshoot
> operations.
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> There's plenty of space in the module where the mechanism is, so no need to
> squash it, and I can keep it well away from the track to maintain 8mm scale
> loading gauge, which is considerably wider than 6-wide loading gauge!
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> PLMKWYT!
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> Mark
Very interesting. Thanks to the fact that for 4 or so years I've been studying
a foreign language: "British model railway terminology", I actually understood
your post! Ha ha!
Anyway, I'm totally new to Lego 9V trains, but have been doing some British
outline in 00 scale. I take it that you use a scale of 8mm/ft for British
outline stock? What does the loading gauge work out to as measured by studs?
-dave (Just a Yank with C.J. Freezer's book.)
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| (...) Yes, it's 8mm:1ft scale. There aren't many people building to that scale with LEGO though, as 6-wide trains remain popular and require fewer bricks, with 8-wide attracting a reasonable following. My trains end up 8+ wide for British (...) (18 years ago, 12-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains)
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