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Re: How high are train cars.
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 5 May 2000 21:40:27 GMT
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Derek wrote:
> I'm building a train station with passenger platforms and I'm wondering how
> high to make the platforms. Currently I only have two axle train cars, but I'm
> plaining to get some of the dual boggy cars in the future. I'd like the
> platform to be the correct height for the bed of the dual boggy cars. The flat
> ones, not the U shaped ones.
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> To get the reference plane right, this is how I'm setting it up. From the top
> of a base plate I attach a 2x8 plate then attach the blue rails to this plate.
> If you place one of the dual boggy cars on top of this how high is it from the
> top of the base plate to the top of the car's bed.
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> Using the current train wheels with a single plate on top, which is how my
> current cars are built I get 3 2/3 bricks high. With the dual boggy cars this
> must be higher, because there is the boggy plate and the bed plate on top of
> the wheels.
If you put a wagon plate on a 2 axle bogie which utilizes a bogie plate then you
will be 4 bricks high as it stands on the track. The LEGO platforms which come
with the train station are 2 bricks high. You could stack 2 ramp platforms and
bolster the flat ones up 2 bricks and you would be level with your train cars. Or
you could build your own platforms to any height you wanted because there really
isn't any standard for that sort of thing IFAIK.
HTH,
John
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> Thanks for the Help,
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> Derek
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| (...) I'm (...) flat (...) The U-shaped ones are the same height at each end compared to the straight ones. (...) I think basically the top of the platform should line up within a plate to the height of the bottom of the train door - this is roughly (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| I'm building a train station with passenger platforms and I'm wondering how high to make the platforms. Currently I only have two axle train cars, but I'm plaining to get some of the dual boggy cars in the future. I'd like the platform to be the (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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