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Re: Creative ways to run trains in small places
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lugnet.trains
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Sat, 21 Jul 2007 18:34:47 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Ralph Hempel wrote:
> A long time ago I made a 4 wide big rig and thought that
> it might be fun to take standard HO track and build LEGO
> cases for a standard loco chassis.
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> The I got to thinking about how to attach HO trucks to LEGO
> and dropped the idea because it was getting too complicated.
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> John Barnes once hollowed out some bricks and stuck N scale
> parts inside to make a micro-scale train - but that's because
> he wanted to find out if his new micro milling machine cold
> do it. :-)
And if you're thinking of making a loop, HO, OO and N have some pretty wide
curves as standard. You really have to go down to Z-gauge to find curves that
are smaller than LEGO, and that would take some very specialised building
techniques!
Jason R
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