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Re: Acela ver2: Magnetic nose coupler
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Tue, 31 Oct 2000 18:36:38 GMT
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Hi James,
just checking the news before I will leave tomorrow....
> 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.
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!!
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> 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
Thanks for the link! I remeber the blue-grey TGV: I Think there is also a
double-decker TGV??? Like your red DB double-decker (I use such a train twice a
day - good feeling for a comuter-train!!). But I don't like the LEGO-Train
nose! I looks to much like LEGO-Sets to me...
> > 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??
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> 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!
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> 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?
I have seen a tilting LEGO-train somewhere. Is that the dutch page?? I will
check it later! And DB runs some slower tilting trains too! But they hat much
much trouble with the tilting technology!! I think it's an italian technology?
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> 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"?
I thought of the ICE 2 which is run as nose-to-nose train. Comeing from two
different dirctions and leaving for the same direction!! It's so smouth when
the real ones get together!!
> > Read to you next week after my brick-getting-trip!!
DEFENTLY!!!
> You really are going "Brick or Treating" ;-)
Oh Yes!!
Holger
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| (...) I (...) I wanted to buy the 3171 Pumpkins set from S@H, but seeing that all bricks are 2-wide, I have hesitated. That is good, because I should not spend the money! Just look for good real life objects colored orange ;-) I have seen Maerklin (...) (24 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains)
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