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| | | Using the new speed computer (URL) Stembel and I discovered the top speed along a ten foot section of track is about 5.42 km/h (3.37 mi/h). Of course, there is no replication on this experiment since we only tried one motor. The computer also read (...) (25 years ago, 22-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: Train Speed —Kevin Loch
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| | | | | (...) Supposedly you can enter in the diameter of the wheel to calibrate it. It would be interesting to enter in the minifig scale equivalent diameter for the wheel and get minifig-scale speed measurements. KL (25 years ago, 22-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | Re: Train Speed —Mike Poindexter
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| | | | | | Using 1 stud = 1.25" (which is 8 studs wide = a 10' wide train car) it ends up being 128 mph. Of course, pulling some 8 wide cars will undoubtedly slow that down a lot. Mike Poindexter Kevin Loch <kloch@opnsys.com> wrote in message (...) (25 years ago, 22-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Train Speed —Christopher Tracey
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| | | | | | | (...) I should note that these tests used a bare motor and a few 2x6 plates. I think the top speed with my GP-35 was about 2.5 mph or so. -chris (25 years ago, 22-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Train Speed —Ben Fleskes
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| | | | | | How does that compare with the scale speed of other model trains? Or in general, how does 3 mph compare with other model trains, not considering scale. (...) <snip> (25 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: Train Speed: 9V vs. 12V —Alan Demlow
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| | | | I was playing with a couple of my 12V engines (7735 and 7755) last night with a stopwatch. I don't have a very long stretch of straight track--only about 40"--but from my computations my average speed for both engines pulling nothing was about 2.84 (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains)
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