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Re: The inevitable leap into 10-Wide Trains...
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lugnet.trains
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Sat, 28 Oct 2006 08:34:07 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Tim David wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, Timothy Gould wrote:
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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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You beat me to that answer by 17 mins. If only I hadn’t been on late shift
this week ;)
Tim
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Yes, I remembered, but just after posting! (why does this happen? - I must need
more sleep to help my memory!) :-)
Dan, it’s particularly good that your kit fits with the larger scale, and you
managed to get it through the design and production processes without any
miniaturisation or simplification. We need more buildings built like that.
I think the public at railway shows liked the houses too. Whenever I was asked
about them I said where they could be bought and pointed out that they are good
value for money too. Not sure if it resulted in any extra sales, but quite a
few people took the SAH details at shows.
I’ll see if there’s a space on my new layout for them. If they are on top of a
hill with trains underneath then having their own small baseplates allows them
to be lifted off the layout to provide access to re-rail a train, a technique
often used on other model railways.
Mark
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