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Re: ME Models Metal Rails
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:44:11 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Wayne Jackson wrote:
> Bluebrick supports full, half and quarter pieces of both the curved and
> straight track elements.
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> If I use these elements in the design of my layout, and purchase the ME
> components, will they marry up? For instance a quarter track piece from
> ME will equal a quarter track piece from a hack-saw mod?
All of our curves will come in 22.5 degree sweeps. In short, if you lay them
out 8 studs apart, you will be able to draw a radii line from the center of the
curve that will intersect all of the junctions.
> Having said that, are the libraries for Track Draw available for download?
I will put them up on the ME Website soon.
> Nice, I am looking forward to that. As a side note, would you be
> drawing inspiration from the current TLC track elements, or more from
> real world, or even the likes of HO/O/G components to generate the huge
> variety of geometries?
Our obvious medium here is "L Gauge", but most of our ideas are coming from
either real-world or other scale trains. Either way, we wanted to bring
something to the community that would make a train layout, look like a train
layout. :)
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| (...) Sounds like a nice product, I look forward to getting hands on with it so I can explore making switches and interlocks with them. Having track loose like this really opens the door to new switch geometry and more realistic and functional (...) (14 years ago, 17-Apr-11, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Bluebrick supports full, half and quarter pieces of both the curved and straight track elements. If I use these elements in the design of my layout, and purchase the ME components, will they marry up? For instance a quarter track piece from ME (...) (14 years ago, 8-Apr-11, to lugnet.trains)
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