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Re: World Record LEGO Bridge
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.build
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Tue, 22 Aug 2000 21:11:43 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Wayne R. Hussey writes:
> Just to clarify a few details about the World Record LEGO Bridge.
>
> It is, as far as I know, a World Record length of bridge span - officially
> measured (with guidance from a bridge engineer) at 16 feet 10 inches.
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> The bridge has been called a suspension bridge and for those who know the
> difference, it is a cable stay bridge - which I believe is a subset of
> suspension bridges. In that way it is still a suspension bridge.
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> It's overall dimensions are 22-1/2 feet long, 18 inches wide and about 4-1/2
> feet tall. It carries two rail lines (separated by four studs between 9V track
> pieces), using 108 pieces of straigt 9V track.
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> It is built using 80% LEGO Znap, 12% brick and other common LEGO elements (no
> standard Technic was used - the Znap was interfaced with 2x2 bricks w/Technic
> clips), 4% LEGO train track, 4% other (pennies and nylon string).
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> There are about seven pounds of pennies inside each of the footings for
> ballast. The footings each weigh about 20 pounds. The rest of the footings are
> solid brick. When I first completed the footings, they only weighed about 11
> pounds. When I tested the bridge, the feet lifted when the bridge deck was
> pressed down (still happens, but it takes quite a bit more than a typical
> train's weight). I hollowed them out, added the pennies and rebuilt the
> interface for more surface area of the brick-brick link. This raised the
> weight to 20 pounds.
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> It was dis-assembled into five sections for transport. The cables are tied to
> the Znap purple clip rings, allowing the cables to be easily disconnected for
> transport and reconnected during setup.
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> I hope this information will answer most questions - if there are any others,
> please ask.
>
> Here is a picture David Schilling took of me and my largest (to date) LEGO
> creation.
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=11395
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> (The train in the foreground is also mine)
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> Wayne
Wayne, all I can say is AWESOME! I thought the schnabel car I built was large.
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