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Re: New Idea for Rail Ties
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 21 Sep 2000 19:33:17 GMT
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Now that looks REALLY good. Gulps down quite a few tiles though. There might
also be call for light grey tiles, for those who wish to model concrete ties.
And black ones, for heavily-creosoted wood ties. And and and :) Let's hear it
for bulk ordering + wishful thinking!
Now let's see you do a turnout! >:]
K.
In lugnet.trains, John Neal writes:
> Check this out: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=1399
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> I have come up with an idea to heighten the realism of the LEGO 9 volt
> track.
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> First, I laid down a 10 wide row of black plates. Then I laid down the
> track. I next filled in the gaps in the track with dark gray 2x4 plates
> on the inside, and 1x2s on the outside. Then I laid down the brown 1x4
> tiles. Ideally, the outside 1x2 tiles would be replaced with 1x1 brown
> tiles-- however, these do not currently exist AFAIK.
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> Of course, curves will be a little trickier, but I thought I'd toss this
> out first to see what folk think. If a lot thought the idea had merit,
> I'd go and figure out the curves and perhaps we could give a unified cry
> to LD for bulk dark gray 1x2, 2x4 plates; and 1x1, 1x4 brown tiles. We
> would need *a lot* of them:-)
>
> -John
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