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| | | Interesting car, I'll probably build one for my freight train, since it will be so simple to do... (URL) fun part will be adding a real light and micromotor to it, so it spins as the train moves. -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: Searchlight car —Nick Goetz
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| | | | | Forgive my ignorance on this one, What is it for? I understand it could be a simple freight item but from what I believe it is to be used as a working light. Why would you want a working search light in the middle of you train? -Nick Tom Stangl (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | Re: Searchlight car —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | | (...) I'm sure Larry will have an answer as to whether searchlight cars were ever used in reality. It seems unlikely, but it certainly is a cool addition to a toy train. Actually, I'm sure there are various MOW cars with large lights. There is (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Searchlight car —Nick Goetz
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| | | | | | | | Here's another question, maybe directed more at Tom S. but any experienced train(ee) will probably have their own method. I am mostly interested in techniques. To supply the light car with power would you a) build a 9V battery box into the generator (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Searchlight car —Tom Stangl
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| | | | | | | | | I personally would use a motor on that car to feed it up to the light/motor. If I build this, I'll probably make it a generic light car, with the searchlight in the middle, and banks of floodlights on each end. If you look at the pic, it looks like (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Searchlight car —Ben Fleskes
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| | | | | | | | | | Or you could use what they did with the new snow plow set and make it mechanically powered. If only there was a good way to do this with bogie cars... Anyone have ideas? Ben F (...) searchlight (...) it (...) plain (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Searchlight car —Nick Goetz
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| | | | | | | | | | Here is a thought: The spotlight could not rotate 360 degrees. There would not be any way for the internal light to receive constant power without the wires getting tangled (using pure methods anyhow.). To power the light you must use a wire to (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Searchlight car —Frank Buiting
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| | | | | | | | | | Nick Goetz <ngoetz@iquest.net> schreef in berichtnieuws FqI9t1.FA9@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) If you make the lightbulb stationary and mount the casing on a Technic turntable, you can point the light in any direction without the wired getting (...) (25 years ago, 26-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Searchlight car —Nick Goetz
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| | | | | | | | | | Agreed, Very good idea. -Nick Frank Buiting wrote in message ... <cut> (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Searchlight car —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | I'd go with B currently. Someday I hope TLC comes up with a way to pick up power that is separate from the motor. Power and propulsion should be separate... (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Searchlight car —Paul Davidson
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| | | | | | | | That's why we need someone to perfect digital train control! -- Paul Davidson, aka Tinman www.theforce.net | Your Daily Dose of Star Wars www.filmforce.net | Your Daily Dose of Film News Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message (...) (25 years ago, 26-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Searchlight car —Stephen F. Roberts
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| | | | | | | | (...) ...Convient u should mention this!!! WAMALUG's own Tom Cook has done just that! We were successfully running 5 separate trains on one circuit with _no_ problems (other than the occasional minor crash when we let them catch up with each other (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Searchlight car —Tom Stangl
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| | | | | | | | INFOINFOINFO! We MUST have info! ;-) I want DCC BAD, so that BayLTC can go crazy with our train setup. (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal views with my employer (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Searchlight car —John Gerlach
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| | | | | | | | | (...) This implying that you're not "going crazy" with what you've got now? <g,d&r!> JohnG, GMLTC - the group that long ago crossed the line into 'crazy' territory!!! (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Searchlight car —Tom Cook
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| | | | | | | | Regarding how I implemented DCC (Digital Command Control): I hope to have some pictures and descriptions up on my site in a couple days. It is 99% commercial parts. Thanks to the NMRA (National Model Railroad Association) DCC is now standardized, so (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Searchlight car —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | | (...) Which naturally means if TLC produces a digital-control product for LEGO Trains, it will be proprietary and non-standard. Steve (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | Re: Searchlight car —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) One word: Wrecks. Two words: Construction Sites. Frank probably beat me to it as I've been moving all day... think about when and where you need light, and why you might not have it, and the need for a searchlight car becomes apparent. Now, (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Searchlight car —Nick Goetz
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| | | | | | Interesting. I would have guessed that they drove vehicles down the tracks for wrecks or construction sites. But I guess if you travel back to a time before cars and trucks came along, spotlights on cars could be quite a necessity. Thanks. -Nick (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: Searchlight car —Christopher Tracey
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| | | | (...) Coincidentely, at the GATS show this weekend, a son(~10-11years old) of somebody in another club brought some of his LEGO trains to show us. One of them was a searchlight car. I think he modeled it after a lionel car that had a searchlight and (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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