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Re: Future of LEGO Trains ? was Re: Model Railroad Scenery
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> James Powell has gotten his train up to 89 cars before decoupling. I think
> he has a lot of lighter cars, though. Imagine a 15 car train, though. It
> should be able to handle that many large cars without decoupling. 15 cars
> in that scale is pretty big - like about 20 feet long. I was thinking that
> the magnetic couplers were a problem, since they have a limited amount they
> can pull. That was until I discovered that they could still take more than
> twice my current rolling stock collection.
To clarify, I was running at the end 89 cars with 3 motors on the point. The
circuit is 124 pieces long, and I had a gap of 4 pieces. So, total length was
1920 studs, with a average length per car of 21 studs. (somewhat longer than a
16 plate car will be over the couplers). The other dodge to use is to bury a
motor or 2 in the train, 20 cars back or so.
> I personally feel that the biggest problem people have with 8 wide is
> converting all they have over. Well, we all complain that the new stuff
> sucks. If all you have is new stuff, then go 8 wide. You won't have 2 club
> cars looking at you trying to convince you to stay in kiddie land. If you
> have a lot of old stock, well, you might have a harder time upgrading, but
> the problem really lies within.
Or with what you are trying to do. I model to 'MF scale', and I _like_ 6 wide.
I will stay with 6 wide over the main body for what I do, but I can see that
making 8 wide trains would allow a more realistic (?) model.
James P
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| (...) OOh, before Lar jumps in here ranting about compression, blah, blah, blah and the flames start igniting(;) I will say these two things about 8 wide. First, I feel 8 wide *is* MF scale; it just allows for a little more interior room (Also, see (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| Christopher Masi <cmasi@cmasi.chem.tulane.edu> wrote in message news:38B42AE5.D23FB9...ane.edu... (...) anyone recall (...) weight a lot (...) to hit the (...) both current (...) pushed (...) high enough (...) the technology (...) it another (...) (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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