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This evening I added a third car to my Airport Shuttle (6399). I am sure I am not the first person to do this but I have not seen any other pictures of one. This is my version of a three car Airport Shuttle: (URL) I had more red train windows (I (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Three Car Airport Shuttle
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(...) Excellent. I would love to see another monorail - train supplement for custom monorail trains. Does the motor bog down at all when you add more cars? Great job, Mike! Scott S. ___...___ Scott E. Sanburn-> ssanburn@cleanweb.net Systems (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Three Car Airport Shuttle
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Scott E. Sanburn wrote in message <38A00ED4.5C16FF1@cl...eb.net>... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) So far the motor seems to handle the load just fine. It definitely prefers to pull the two car load instead of pushing it however. I would be (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Three Car Airport Shuttle
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Are you using the James Mathis Connection Method(tm) ?? (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Three Car Airport Shuttle
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There is a better method for connecting multiple monorail cars together. It require the ball and socket joints. I was able to get one to work and only sacrifice on "extra" stud from the female car and none from the male. James' system eats too much (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Sure, if you post pictures, but wouldn't you rather call it the Mike Poindexter Method(tm) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I used Character Map to find the (tm) symbol and pasted it into my post. It looked fine here, but was converted to a T when I posted it. Mike Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message news:38A4ABC5.635EFD...ger.net... (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <38A4983A.B2ECD5@voy...er.net>... (...) I used these pieces to connect the third car: (URL) Filz asked how it handles the up and down transitions. I hadn't really thought about it so tonight I added a couple of (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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