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Subject: 
Aerotrain/hovertrain in Lego?
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto
Date: 
Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:55:24 GMT
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I foud this curious picture:



It is (poorly translated by google) a hovertrain, that runs on a monorail style track, with a jet(?) engine driving it forwards. they referred to it as a “plane without wings”.

Any ideas on how this could be modeled on the lego monorail?

-Rob A>



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  Re: Aerotrain/hovertrain in Lego?
 
(...) Hi Rob, I built it for one of our train shows, in Orleans, France, November 2004. Orleans is the native town of the aerotrain, so I tought we should show one with LEGO bricks ;). (URL) I used monorail base and motor to do it. I wanted to make (...) (18 years ago, 20-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
  Re: Aerotrain/hovertrain in Lego?
 
(...) Hm. The monorail wheels are pretty smooth-- I wonder if you could use the big Lego fans to actually drive a little car forward... Hm. I'd guess the battery box would be WAY too heavy to make it move. And certainly not enough to make it go up (...) (18 years ago, 20-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
  Re: Aerotrain/hovertrain in Lego?
 
(...) Looks like something from Thunderbirds :) (18 years ago, 20-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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