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Just how sturdy are your trains?
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 24 Mar 2000 09:20:39 GMT
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CMASI@CMASI.CHEM.TULANE.saynotospamEDU
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Let me say that this is NOTmeant to be derogatory in any way.
I just checked out Ben's "a Baltimore and Ohio Royal Blue 2-6-2 steam
engine"
http://www.geocities.com/ben_fleskes/royalblue.jpg
and it got me thinking. Ben used a stud forward building technique along
the length of the engine, and I wondered to myself, "If the engine were
picked up by that section would it break?"
The better looking my models get the more frgile they become. I could
grab my early engines and rolling stock from any where without fear, but
I have to be mor careful with my better stuff
My SD40-2
http://cmasi.chem.tulane.edu/~lego/trains/Engine%20gallery/EMD_SD40_2/emd_sd40-2.htm
can only be safely grabbed right below the radiator bubble, luckily, the
radiator bubble is right in the middle of the train. Grab any farther
forward and you will knock out the blower housing, and any farther back
you risk ripping the doors off.
My car carrier (which I am happy to say I was able to finish thanks to
MA12 [1]. It looks great, but there are no new pictures yet.)
http://cmasi.chem.tulane.edu/~lego/trains/rolling%20stock/rolling_stock.htm
cannot really be grabbed anywhere since the plates are only half
connected.
So, what do you do when you go to a show. Make certain that everyone
knows the weak spots and hope for the best, only run your fraglie models
yourself, or throw caution to the wind and let your fellow LTCers or
LUGers go wild without any advice?
Just thinking out loud,
Christopher
[1] Now all I need is 150 more 1x4 gray plates and I can put my monorail
back together.
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Message has 3 Replies:
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| Hi Christopher, I think that's quite natural. Fine detailed models with studs in changing directions will be more fragile than massive models with all studs upside... As an example Torsten Werneckes bavarian 4-4-4 steam engine is quite stable when (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Just how sturdy are your trains?
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| Christopher, Just a quick question kind of off the subject. But on your pictures of your SD40-2 there were some black and red wires ((URL) What are those for? James Christopher Masi wrote in message <38DB335C.B5F154D@cm...ne.edu>... (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Just how sturdy are your trains?
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| Christopher Masi <cmasi@cmasi.chem.tulane.edu> wrote in message news:38DB335C.B5F154...ane.edu... [snip] (...) I think the monorail looks tremendously better using 1x4 gray tiles instead of plates to join track sections. Mike Poindexter (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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