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Re: Acela ver2: Magnetic nose coupler
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Tue, 31 Oct 2000 18:12:56 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Holger Matthes writes:
> Hi James,
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> I am following your inavational process!! That's really great putting two
> locomotives nose-to-nose together!
I have wanted to do this ever since modeling the TGV. It is tough enough to
get a few orange pieces. Even tougher to get enough orange for the TGV that I
built. Then, to want to build a second orange TGV! I'm sure some LEGO fans
have many more orange pieces than I have. My 5-car orange TGV consumed 5
Target Halloween buckets, two Star Wars EP1 Pod Racer sets, and 6 Star Wars
Snow Speeder sets. And, this doesn't count the window elements nor the gray
roof elements.... I digress, sorry.
Picking an easier color, one can make more similar trains to put nose-to-nose.
Dave VinZant chose an easier color for his TGV: gray, blue, and black. The
latest version of his TGV ran at the PNLTC world record track length event.
Here's an old picture:
http://members.nbci.com/legotrains/tgv.htm
I'm sure that he has replaced the red base plates with gray. He may have made
other changes, as well, but I don't know of a web site with most recent photos
of Dave VinZant's TGV....
I don't know if Amtrak will run the Acela train sets nose-to-nose. I have read
that Amtrak ordered quantity 20 of the Acela as 8 car sets. Maybe they will
not need to put two trainsets nose-to-nose?
> And the challenge is enormous with the
> narrow LEGO tracks. Should I start with an ICE 2 (using a similar coupling
> technology) before I go off with the ICE 3??
The challenge is also the small radius of curvature of the LEGO tracks.
Even a tilting train's passengers would notice a curve so tight in real life!
And, now, writing of tilting trains, I see that the German "DB" has a tilting
ICE trainset. Eric Brok has shown us successfully a tilting trainset in a
modified Metroliner. Do you know that model?
For you and me, I do not propose a tilting train. Rather, I address your
question, "ICE 2 or ICE 3"?
I have seen pictures of the ICE "T" (tilting ICE) and ICE diesel. They look
very similar to the ICE 3, but are not so sharp at the front.
Maybe you would like to model the ICE "T"?
So many ICE's...just pick your favorite or the ICE train that you think you can
model the best.
> It's great that you also got the "playability" in mind. I wish I could be one
> of the kids playing with all your train creations ;-)
:-) Me, too!
> 8-wide or 6-wide?? I am open at that point. I build some 8-wides recently, but
> I have no idea what a complete train would look like in 8-wide. I think I just
> have to try - and that is the advantage from LEGO (in comparison to Maerklin
> and others) - the possibilities (even in scaling) are so various.
Regarding tilting LEGO trainsets. I have tried this a little bit, but all my
results were too bulky. I definitely can see how the added size of an 8-wide
model would provide additional space in which to contain a tilting mechanism.
Ut-oh.... ;-) Not that I'm going there....
> Read to you next week after my brick-getting-trip!!
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> Happy Helloween!!
> Holger
You really are going "Brick or Treating" ;-)
later,
James Mathis
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| Hi James, just checking the news before I will leave tomorrow.... (...) What could I do with 2 Snowspeeders, 4 Pumkins (all bricks are 2-wide ;-(( ) the artic headquarter and the superb Podracer Set?? I think I have to work it out!! (...) (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| Hi James, I am following your inavational process!! That's really great putting two locomotives nose-to-nose together! And the challenge is enormous with the narrow LEGO tracks. Should I start with an ICE 2 (using a similar coupling technology) (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains)
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