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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
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> John Gerlach wrote:
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> > Serious question: How likely is it that we'll ever be at a show where we need
> > to think of "compatible modules"? The closest other train club (so far) to us
> > is where? Georgia? PNTLC? We only do shows within a few hundred miles of
> > 'home base' (Minneapolis, in case anyone doesn't know that already)... As
> > much as we would love to do shows all over the country, it's probably never
> > going to happen, due to the costs and difficulty of transporting our layout.
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> Ah, who cares what gauge we make our railroad? No one else is ever going
> to build a railroad within 100 miles of us, so the fact that we're
> incompatible with everyone else doesn't matter.
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> - president of a forgotten railroad, ca. 1835... forgotten because by
> 1860 everyone knew that a standard was needed.
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> How do you KNOW there isn't going to be a club in chicago? Why do
> something likely to be incompatible, and likely to be harder to build.
> 15 inches is a natural multiple. Why depart?
The compatability issue is actually a moot point at the moment for the new GMLTC
layout for a couple of reasons:
1.) GMLTC is switching to 8x44 stud rolling stock which will most likely be
large to fit around corners, tunnels, bridges, towns designed for the 6xN
standard. Unless others adopt larger trains too, the scale will be incompatable
from our point of view.
2.) The new GMLTC layout will slope from end to end and may even have tracks at
more than one elevation. It also means there will be no uniform standard in
height for our modules either as we want the layout to go 3D and have mountains,
cable cars, canyons, mines, and other interesting landscape dependend features.
3.) Is there really a need for one big super layout? I think several smaller
layouts would offer more mainlines and more trains running at any given time.
Dan
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| In lugnet.trains, Daniel Siskind writes: I draw on my 30 years of MR experience in my reply to Dan... (...) GMLTC (...) No it isn't and I will refute your reasons point by point. (...) I've been advocating larger clearances for some time now. Other (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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| (...) Ah, who cares what gauge we make our railroad? No one else is ever going to build a railroad within 100 miles of us, so the fact that we're incompatible with everyone else doesn't matter. - president of a forgotten railroad, ca. 1835... (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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