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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 19:05:35 GMT
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"John Gerlach" <john.gerlach@bestbuy.nospam.com> wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
...Yea, its closer, but overshoots some :-/ (sunken rail beds? :-)
...Its only a nuisance because its close to 2" for either version, and as we all know,
LEGO trains do _not_ like going up or down slopes much :-/
> 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...
...That's about all I'm thinking is to go ahead and think about how we could integrate
them when/if we ever need to. If we think about it now, we can have on hand the fix (like
some 2" hi boxes to go under the legs of the tables or something of that like). And
whatever fix we use at WAMALUG so we can use some modules along with our regular tables
will be compatible with the 'standard' fix....
...you can go back to ignoring me now...
wubwub
stephen f roberts
wamalug guy (http://wamalug.org)
wildlink.com
lugnet #160
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