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Re: New Interurban/Trolley model, perfect for those downtown scenes
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Mon, 25 Sep 2000 19:46:12 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Christopher Masi writes:
> That looks good. Now that I am reinventing myself in 8-wide I keep thinking
> about revisiting my trolleys. Specifically, I keep thinking about making a two
> truck street car. The one thing that keeps holding me back are the size of the
> LEGO motors. I think that they are to long for trolley trucks. What do you
> think? I am not trying to take a shot at your model. I was just wondering what
> you thought about the size of the trucks.
Well I guess I wish they were a bit shorter but it's not that bad.
Proportionally they are about the right length compared to the width of a
minifig (A PCC truck is something like 8-10 feet long) but I had to compress
the model overall length a lot to get a model that was overall short enough to
fit the curves, so the trucks are proportionally more of the body length than
a PCC. In fact this model is the shortest I could make with the following
criteria:
- has to have a body mounted pilot (truck mounted like my upcoming doodlebug
can save you a stud or two as the pilots now don't need to clear the truck
swing
- has to be symmetrical (1)
- needed 8 studs at the center... 2 for a slope, 4 for a door and 2 for the
other slope.
As to motor axle spacing, I swear it is between 3 and 4, not exactly 3. Maybe
I was wrong when I said it was closer to 4 though.
Somebody's probably going to call me on it.
Hmm.. a challenge. Can I make a strong truck with a centered pivot that is
only 3 studs beween? Not with the bogie plate unless I add a layer between the
plate and the wheels. But maybe with the 2x2 tile with technic pin. Problem
with that is that the pin is a full 3 plates high instead of 2. Either a floor
redesign (not going to happen) or recess the tile by one plate layer.
> P.P.S. The door and window pack is gone now? Bummer.
Last time I checked. Be nice to be wrong. The dacta pack is gone too, I think,
unless there are stocks around
1 - one end could have a shorter truck but that would be wrong. The PCC is a
funny kind of symmetrical, it has only 2 doors per side, one centered, one at
the front of that side if the right is the front, meaning that the front of
the car only has one door, on the left side as you approach it, which is good
if you operate in a world that drives on the right (2) and if the motorman
also has to collect (or supervise the collection of) fares. He sits off center
just like a bus driver does (3),
2 - think about it... it's the same reason that London buses have back stairs
that come out to a door on the right side when viewed from the front, they
drive on the left, so passengers enter and exit to the curb side of the
vehicle. Very important.
3 - unlike in my model which is only 6 wide and thus needs a centered fig,
which is why I put the fare boxes by the doors
++Lar
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 | | 8 wide trolley??? (was new interurban/trolley from MTW
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| PS This model is "technically" 8 wide. Hear that John Neal? I say that because it has steps at the center and the bottom step, below the door, sticks out a stud from the body. This is prototypical, but it makes the body 8 wide, just in that spot. (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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