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Re: Need some help with some Train specs
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lugnet.trains
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Sat, 9 Dec 2000 00:30:55 GMT
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I wanted to say we don't "kit-bash" but "scratch" build, but I have seen
modified Metroliners, Train Stations.... so, we do both!
As for guage, I tell the story that "L" guage was determined by the original
LEGO wheel set back in the 1960's. The track is spaced such that a standard
wheel set (using 2x2 wheels on a 2x4 axile brick) rolls on it. Of course
this is the 4.5 volt days but this still holds true on 9v.
SteveB
PNLTC
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 | | Re: Need some help with some Train specs
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| Thanks for the track numbers everyone, I will refer to it as L-gauge or LEGO gauge, but it will be nice to have some hard fast number to throw out also. Kit-bash and Scratch are terms I've used with them before, even though we still have different (...) (24 years ago, 9-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Need some help with some Train specs
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| (...) Thats what I told the folks at the Greenberg show last weekend. Many of them ran off with a piece of track to measure it but I never asked what they came up with. Just say its "LEGO" gauge because Minifigs aren't to scale with "us" anyway (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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