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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 02:12:27 GMT
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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 ideas of Scratch.
Anyone have any idea of the curve radius?
jt
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James J. Trobaugh
North Georgia LEGO Train Club
http://www.ngltc.org
sebarile-MOBL <steve.e.barile@intel.com> wrote in message
news:G59yrJ.6AI@lugnet.com...
> I wanted to say we don't "kit-bash" but "scratch" build, but I have seen
> modified Metroliners, Train Stations.... so, we do both!
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> 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.
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> SteveB
> PNLTC
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 9-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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