 | | Re: Hypothetically speaking? the future of IR/RC trains —Matthew Crandall
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| | | (...) **maniacal laughter** Bring back the 4.5 volt trains, with the good plastic track. That's what I'd like to see. And the cuuuuute little battery boxes! Bwah-hah-hah-hah-haaaaaah! Okay, seriously-- I never got the 9v train system; I sorta felt (...) (18 years ago, 20-Feb-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Hypothetically speaking? the future of IR/RC trains —Ross Crawford
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| | | | (...) It's possible you could get reasonable running by butting them up against one another, but no, they're not really designed to click together. If you ask Ondrew nicely, he may be able to come up with a nice adapter solution though. ROSCO (18 years ago, 20-Feb-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.parts.mod, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Hypothetically speaking? the future of IR/RC trains —Ondrew Hartigan
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| | | | (...) while the distance between the rails is identical the depth of the rail is not. unfortunetly this lets 4.5v trains run on 9v track but not the other way around because 9v train wheels have a longer flange depth.. ondrew (18 years ago, 20-Feb-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.parts.mod, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Hypothetically speaking? the future of IR/RC trains —Niels Karsdorp
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| | | | (...) I haven't had any problems running the new IR freight train on my old blue track. Even going through points went okay. Niels (18 years ago, 20-Feb-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.parts.mod, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Hypothetically speaking? the future of IR/RC trains —Mathew Clayson
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| | | | (...) I also had no problems running a train when I metalized some 4.5v track using some thin metal tape. (URL) But this did increase the hieght of the rail by a samll amount. I picked up ~500 peices of lt bley straight 4.5v style plastic track (...) (18 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.parts.mod, FTX)
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