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12:49 pm Pacific time The Pacific Northwest Lego Train Club has just broken the Guiness Record for the longest LEGO train Layout - 3232 feet, or 7752 pieces of track crossed. Check out the live cam at www.pnltc.org Ben Fleskes PNLTC (24 years ago, 19-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Revised estimate now in. Corrected length is actually 3343 feet. Ben Fleskes PNLTC (...) (24 years ago, 19-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Waahoo!! Congrats to you all !! John (...) (24 years ago, 19-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Well done everyone - just curious about the actual continuous train run Ben - what was the length of the longest 'loop'? Jon (...) (24 years ago, 20-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Congratulations on the record and surviving the /. effect! Thanks to everyone that uploaded all the great pictures of the event. Who made the downtown buildings? They appear to be sub-minifig scale, but they are very, very nice. KL (24 years ago, 20-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Congrats from the FGLTC! Ben (24 years ago, 20-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Congratulations with the record! Also congratulations with the amount of money and work you have put into it! Let get to it: are there some better pictures of these churches? (URL) Original Message ----- From: David VinZant <legotrains@yahoo.com> (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thank you, the project was a lot of fun and yes, a whole lot of work (the money part we try to ignore :-). (...) I'll see if I have some pics of these, if not from this show then a previous show. (...) Tom (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Actually that is it, 3343 feet of one continuous run, after which we switched (moved track around) over to about 28 separate lines, now that looked cool having that many trains running a once. :-) I think the longest loop at that point was (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Congratulations from ItLUG! (...) for (...) crossed. (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thank you, I'm still trying to figure out if I survived. :-) (...) Yes, I'd like to thank David Schilling for all the pics, like the ones linked below. (...) Ok, I'll try my best at the buildings here. (URL) Art Deco Theater - Dan Parker Space (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) My favorite buildings have been the white grain silos and especially the palace with its great details and lots of cool ideas of unconventional use of bricks. (URL) has built it? Regards, Ben BTW: What has actually been the length of the big (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) The silos belong to Matt Chiles. (...) Ah yes, the Palace belongs to Dan Parker. I know I've got more photos of that from the show and also earlier when he brought it over to my house. (...) Oh yes Ben, I remember your bridge. This snap bridge (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) What did you use to power the track? Experience shows that a standard LEGO train regulator wouldn't do the job. How does that affect the record qualifications? KL (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I must know - how long did it take for a train to complete a single circuit?? Well done!! JohnG, GMLTC (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) John It took roughly 30 minutes to run the ~3343 feet of the layout. We maintained a fairly regular speed thru that - hit a few slow spots when we slowed to a crawl. I think we had 6 controllers - each connected to 2-3 track locations - and (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) John Gerlach wants to see video! OK, I can help. I have just over two hours, including the duration of the longest layout, and longest train attempts. It's on a hi-8 master. I'm planning to make a VHS copy to send to Dan Parker for passing (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yes, he does!! <grin> (...) I guess I'll volunteer to be the contact for the GMLTC, since our designated 'public relations officer' (John Neal) is offline for a few days. This is going to be great - we'll get most of our club together, bring (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) We actually used pure LEGO. There were multiple regulators, each connected to the track at multiple points. The tricky part is to make sure they are all set in the same direction and getting the right amount of juice. -- Tony Hafner Very new (...) (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) The highest count of moving trains I know of was 32, and that includes 3 monorails, a Duplo train, and a 4.5v train. Unfortunately, the Duplo train kept stopping every 2 minutes. That's a great design for use at home, but makes them really (...) (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I'm presuming Ben / David means 7752 pieces of track connected? In lugnet.trains, Tony Hafner writes: (...) I'm very interested in the technical details of this project. How many motors and how far apart were they spaced? How did you keep it (...) (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Connected and crossed by a train. I think the record requires both that the track be contiguous and formed into a layout, and that a train of some sort traverse it. (...) The train itself I don't think was all that long! 6-8 cars with the (...) (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Ah <light turning on above head> So THAT's why there wasn't much in the way of engines and cars compared to the amount of track. I had understood that the object was to make the longest TRAIN, which was why each club sent a car, and such a (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Clarifying the train, length, configuration, and other details... track length was 3343 ft, not 3232 as originally posted. This smaller number was the uncalibrated value from the LEGO odometer. As far as an equivalent number of official meters, I (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I (...) At one time, I held this record unoffically, with 92 cars, and ONE engine...if you dig back you can find ref. to it on .trains James P (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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James, taking your word for it -- and I do -- I was very surprised that we couldn't recreate a similar scenario. Question, did you acheive these results on a straight run or otherwise? Did you run for any appreciable amount of time? I believe we (...) (24 years ago, 26-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I had about 200 pieces of track as the loop (my upper loop), and about 30 bogie cars, plus the rest 2 axle cars (so, about 240 axles towed)...the train was 5-7 cars short of being connected at both ends :). Loop was just straight and corner (...) (24 years ago, 26-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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