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Re: probably longest Lego® train pulled by 1 engine
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 31 Oct 2000 03:47:02 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
> Dear all,
>
> as you might have noticed I have made myself a little rare and this is the
> first time since 14 days, that I'm surfing in Lugnet and the German
> www.1000steine.de .
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> I have to become more active for my career and so I'm forced to limitate
> my online time instead. :-(
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> Now on Sunday evening I will do an exception and post my latest Lego® >record,
> since I am (and will be) still active in my Lego® hobby. What I wanted to
> annonce here is probably a new record for the longest (pulled) Lego® >train.
I saw this by means of the BrickShelf recent additions. I was surprised
since I had not seen you post about it. I almost called attention to your
efforts myself. I am glad we heard it from you personally.
To have so much 12v track! The train length is impressive, but I think I am
also impressed by so much 12v straight track.
later,
James Mathis
> Last Thursday I have made up a 12V tracklayout in my appartment (in fact just
> a simple oval) and have tried how many waggons could be pulled by front
> engines. I have forgotten, who once has posted about his train of nearly 90
> waggons, but now I was able to improve this old record up to exactly 100
> waggons pulled by one engine (with two 7865 motors)!
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> This train (no glue, no lubrication, no foul tricks, just 100% pure Lego!) has
> finished its way round one lap on the track oval. It passed through two curves
> of 180 degree and was able to start by own power without external help.
>
> Pictures and some more declaring text can be found in a directory at Brickshelf
> Gallery:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=1791
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> Kind Regards,
>
> Ben
>
> my homepage:
> http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~rbeneke/lego/ben_abs.html
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