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Re: How high are train cars.
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lugnet.trains
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Sun, 7 May 2000 15:53:59 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, John Neal writes:
> > 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.
The U-shaped ones are the same height at each end compared to the straight
ones.
> 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.
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 how it works in the
UK - obviously there has to be some clearance. At some French stations I've
heard the platform is very low.
Carbon 60
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| (...) In the US & Canada it varies. Depending on the size of the station and the type of train, either high or low platforms are used. A high platform comes to the height of the car door. A low platform is not much (if any) higher than the railhead (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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