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Re: WAMALUG heads underground
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.wamalug
Date: 
Mon, 13 Mar 2000 19:21:13 GMT
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Christopher Tracey <ctracey@wamalug.org> wrote:

> Thanks for the comments...
> 
> The whole structure will be underground(as a subway should be), there will
> be a wall that blocks the outside structure from view.  I designed the
> fin-like structure on the outside to channel light(1) into the actual
> station
> for ambient lighting.  This would be placed on the layout so that you
> would be looking down the tunnel, this might allow for some foreshortening
> and less detail further down the tunnel.
> 
> I was thinking this morning that I should do as Larry suggested and do
> a cutaway station lengthwise, similar to how they did the Underground
> stations in LL Winsdor(2).  This would allow trains to be run straight
> through and have the added yet necessary effect of being stronger(3).

...A down-the-tube looks way cool, but can't be used functionally for
a train to run on... a side view (the one I was marginally working on)
allows a small loop of track for the train to run around (with the
back side of the track hidden)... An ideal was to have a mindstorms
running the train and making it stop on 'the back side' for 2-4
minutes then run around to the front, pause at the station for 15-30
seconds then go back.

...Now we have to make a working escalator! :-)



> Also the structure is made up of click hinges and gray plates.  Thank the
> maker for Sith Infiltrators.  :)
> 
> -chris
> 
> 1- from a non lego source
> 2- never been there, but i've seen pictures
> 3- this one collapsed by the end of the meeting :(



...you can go back to ignoring me now...

wubwub
stephen f roberts
wildlink.com
lugnet #160



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Thanks for the comments... The whole structure will be underground(as a subway should be), there will be a wall that blocks the outside structure from view. I designed the fin-like structure on the outside to channel light(1) into the actual station (...) (27 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)

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