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Re: PNLTC breaks guiness record!
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 23 Aug 2000 17:32:03 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Steve Chapple writes:
> In lugnet.trains, David VinZant writes:
> > 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.
> > Ben Fleskes
> > PNLTC
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> I'm presuming Ben / David means 7752 pieces of track connected?
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.
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> I'm very interested in the technical details of this project.
> How many motors and how far apart were they spaced?
The train itself I don't think was all that long! 6-8 cars with the "Guinness
World Record" lettering on them, pulled by one of the Erie Lackawanna like
locomotives.
Go to Brickshelf and look, would be my advice.
++Lar
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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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| (...) 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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