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Re: The inevitable leap into 10-Wide Trains...
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:06:01 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Mark Bellis wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, Daniel Siskind wrote:
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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. • --snip--
Mark
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Hi Mark,
I suspect Dan is very familiar with that set. You might want to check the box to
see why.
Tim
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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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