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Re: The inevitable leap into 10-Wide Trains...
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Tue, 24 Oct 2006 06:27:03 GMT
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Sounds like we have a lot of building experiences in common. Most of the
obstacles to large scale train modelling are familiar to me, since I’ve been
working on GMLTC’s 8-wide layout for the past five years or so. We found that
the weakness of Lego’s magnets can be overcome by adding some of strong wafer
magnets in between their couplers. We’re lucky in that a local store chain
called Target has been selling them dirt cheap lately. During the last outing
of the GMLTC I was present at, we ran a train with two locomotives (2 motors
each) hauling 13 8-wide freight cars (for a train almost 20 feet in total
length) for about 5 hours before having to give the motors a rest. GMLTC’s
layout has a grade of 1 plate per 16 studs through most of it, so that’s quite a
workout for those tiny motors!
By the way... I like the buildings in the lower portion of this picture:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=2011012
Cheers!
Dan
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| (...) The buildings are a Blacksmith's forge kit and another one built as a mirror image! This is the old trick of using a decent kit to fill in a gap. I did the same with wagons - notice the 6 Octan tankers in the middle, just in front of the (...) (18 years ago, 25-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) Excellent Daniel! Nice to find a kindred spirit as I'm also an 8mm scale train builder (since 1996). (URL) I started from the other end - trains first, then scenery. I aim for the scale given by a LEGO track gauge of 37.8mm and real gauge of (...) (18 years ago, 21-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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