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Re: First draft of the Lego-Modular Train layout standards posted..
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org
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Thu, 30 Mar 2000 17:35:18 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Stephen F. Roberts writes:
> ...We are using table top layouts based loosely on the PNLTC standard. An
> observation I have is using incremental brick heights between the two
> different table heights. PNLTC (and WAMALUG) use 36 5/8" as 'ground level'
> while the proposed standard uses 29 3/4" + 10 bricks as ground level (33
> 11/16"). That's nearly 8 bricks difference (1 brick ~1 cm), and
> unfortunately, this does not come out to a clean number of bricks so it would
> be exceedingly difficult to marry the two together in a pure fashion.
There are two 'standard' heights:
29 3/4" table + baseplate + 10 bricks + 1 plate
29 3/4" table + baseplate + 22 bricks + 1 plate
(extra plate is used to represent 'ballast' under the tracks)
The higher one should be close to PNLTC / WAMALUG table height, or at least
closer than the lower one.
The proposed GMLTC layout will have both heights, so if someday we do a show
with another club we should be able to work our layouts together...
JohnG, GMLTC
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