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Container Width (was Re: New MOC: Cargo Sprinter)
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 28 Aug 2000 14:33:33 GMT
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Containers are not as wide as trains! Sure, they are close, but with trains
being 10' wide, represented as 6 studs, then an 8' wide container should be
4.8 studs wide. If you round it to the nearest stud, then it would be 5
wide by 12long for an HCL and 5 x 24for an FCL.
If you round it to the nearest even stud length, then it would be 4 studs
wide.
Using 8 wide trains, containers should be 6.4 studs wide, which rounds to 6
wide x 16 long for an HCL and 32 long for an FCL. If you choose to give
container proportions a priority over absolute scale, then 6x15 and 6x30
will work.
Containers are not as wide as trains and never should be.
Mike Poindexter
Larry Pieniazek <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message
news:FzyDu7.FKA@lugnet.com...
> James does it again...
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> In lugnet.trains, James Mathis writes:
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> > I believe Larry P. teased me regarding building this Cargo Sprinter
> > some months ago. So, here's a first go.
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> > http://www.ee.nmt.edu/~jmathis/cargosprinter.html
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> So I did. :-) (1)
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> Nice model James. VERY However I would say, why compress it? Try it with • the
> power unit able to carry 2 containers... (although actually, if you use • the
> standard 4x8 container, I suspect it WILL carry two..) So what I mean is 2 • of
> your larger containers...
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> 4 wide containers are a thorn in the side of 6 wide designs... containers
> really should have been 6 wide too (there is ONE example of TLC 6 wide
> containers out there, an older MAERSK set, I believe, but it's swamped • with
> these 4 wides we have now.. sigh)
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> 1 - who else can I tease into making something neat?? :-)
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> ++Lar
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Container Width (was Re: New MOC: Cargo Sprinter)
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| (...) Agreed. However the 4 wides just look funny. They're not even tall enough for a minifig to stand up in, and we know how short those guys are. :-) I'll probably just lump it, but I'll continue to whinge (an OZ word!) about it nonetheless. Would (...) (24 years ago, 28-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Container Width (was Re: New MOC: Cargo Sprinter)
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| (...) I hate to be the one to point this out, but it should be 5x12 for a TEU. TEU is the base unit for containers, ISO standards are 8'6" (high) x8'(wide) by 20'(long) (if I have it wrong, it is the high and wide mixed up), and everything is based (...) (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New MOC: Cargo Sprinter
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| James does it again... (...) Nice model James. VERY However I would say, why compress it? Try it with the power unit able to carry 2 containers... (although actually, if you use the standard 4x8 container, I suspect it WILL carry two..) So what I (...) (24 years ago, 27-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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