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Re: Not LEGO, but trains
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Mon, 6 Mar 2000 21:55:16 GMT
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CMASI@CMASInomorespam.CHEM.TULANE.EDU
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> A scale model is probably impractical (do the math, you'd need a
> football field to build it in) but a selectively compressed model would
> be an amazing centerpiece to a very large layout
Well, I was joking, but wasn't someone talking about setting some kind of
record at the "Great Create". The Great Create is held at a domed football
field...isn't it (still joking).
> (c.f. Hell Gate bridge which, selectively compressed, is the centerpiece
> of Bruce Chubb's Sunset Lines, which I really ought to try to track
> down, since he lives in GR somewhere, supposedly)
Lego, or model train?
> Chris said:
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> > OK, so who wnats to make a scale model of the Huey P Long bridge? I had
> > no idea it was the longest train bridge in the world. I guess I
> > shouldn't be surprised since the trains have to climb from sea level
> > (since most of NO is below sea level maybe even from below sea level) to
> > 100 or so feet above sea level; gotta let those big boats get up the
> > Mississippi.
> >
> > Anyway, I just thought that there might be some interest.
> >
> > Chris
>
> --
> Larry Pieniazek - lpieniazek@mercator.com - http://my.voyager.net/lar
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>
> Note: this is a family forum!
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| (...) The GMLTC is talking / dreaming about running a LEGO train layout completely around the upper pedestrian concourse at the Metrodome in Minneapolis if there is another Great Create building event. We think it would be around 2100 to 2200 feet, (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| A scale model is probably impractical (do the math, you'd need a football field to build it in) but a selectively compressed model would be an amazing centerpiece to a very large layout (c.f. Hell Gate bridge which, selectively compressed, is the (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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