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New MOC: Funicular Preview
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Mon, 28 Aug 2000 17:52:34 GMT
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This is a very preliminary design study of a funicular (proper name?).
It is a somewhat parallogram-ish single passenger car for going up a very steep
and straight incline (mountain).
I'm pretty excited about it, mostly because my wife may get encouraged to help
me with this project. We rode a vehicle like this in Switzerland during our
honeymoon. The vehicle we rode was pulled and lowered along the steep track
via a cable system that rode along guide-pulleys in the center of the track.
My wife may help build the small mountain, if we have enough burps and bricks
to do it.
The model is quite blandly red. No interesting features other than the general
shape.
http://www.ee.nmt.edu/~jmathis/legopicts/funicular/funicular_v1_p1.jpg
I post this picture for inspiration.
I may never get around to building a mountain, designing landscape, and
construction station stops.
If anyone desires to follow-up on theis construct concept, PLEASE DO!
I wouldn't care if I build it or someone else does.
I just think a mountain landscape and train scene with funicular train would
just be very cool.
I'd love to see it done! Great addition to a club layout, in my very humble
opinion.
Thanks for reading my ramblings.
(Hope somebody at least kinda like the idea.)
later,
James Mathis
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: New MOC: Funicular Preview
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| Cool. Make two (they usually work with two for counterbalancing) and make it operational. "James Mathis" <thakius@nmt.edu> wrote in message news:G00KBM.JHM@lugnet.com... (...) It's not a proper name. It's from the Latin funiculus. (...) steep (...) (...) (24 years ago, 28-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: New MOC: Funicular Preview
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| (...) steep (...) These ARE cool, aren't they (...) Where? There are (at least?) two in Zurich, both of which I rode. The vehicle we rode was pulled and lowered along the steep trac>k (...) general (...) There was a code pilot controlled rack (...) (24 years ago, 28-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: New MOC: Funicular Preview
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| (...) What is the difference between a funicular and rack rail car? I remember seeing this rack train a few months ago: (URL) the funicular dragged by cables instead of self-powered? -- Thomas Main main@appstate.edu (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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