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Re: Excited to finally be here...
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Tue, 8 Feb 2000 15:16:35 GMT
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Carrie-
I thought that you might think Scott's admonition rather cryptic so I thought I'd clarify
for you. But first, welcome! I think it is an exciting time to be a trainiac:-)
Now, about the 8 wide crack;-) some of us aren't happy with the toyish scale of the LEGO
trains. I mean come on, a train that is only 1 minifig wide?!! In order to correct that
some, I build my LEGO train 8 studs wide, which gives IMNSHO a better looking and better
proportioned train car. By doing so, the scale *roughly* comes out to be 1:48 or "O" scale
to Model Railroaders. It's still minifig scale with a little more breathing room;-)
A few examples of my 8 wides can be found on the GMLUG site: http://www.gmlug.org/j2/
Whether you build 6 or 8 wide though doesn't matter, just build{:^D
-John
"Scott E. Sanburn" wrote:
> Carrie,
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> Welcome to train world! Be careful of 8 wide, and you'll be fine! ;)
> Scott S.
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> Carrie Whitcher wrote:
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> > Hi all,
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> > Now I can ask train questions and get a reply, not just wait for someone
> > else to hopefully answer it for me in a later post. Thanks LUGNET and
> > the trains group, you provide lots of information. Time to visit!
> >
> > Carrie
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> --
> _________________________________________________________________________________________
> Scott E. Sanburn-> ssanburn@cleanweb.net
> Systems Administrator-Affiliated Engineers -> http://www.aeieng.com
> LEGO Page -> http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Station/3372/legoindex.html
> Home Page -> http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Station/3372/index.html
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 | | 8 vs. 6 (was: Excited to Finally be here...)
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| I have a question about the 8 vs. 6 wide. It revolves around the track width. Given that the 8 wide is approximately related to O scale, what width do the tracks suggest the scale to be? Personally, I have never seen a train that was only as wide as (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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