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Re: NQT - Not Quite Talgo
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 1 Jan 2001 18:07:36 GMT
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"Christopher Masi" <cmasi@cmasi.chem.tulane.edu> wrote in message
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> > http://www.oxford.net/~hendryjr/temp/nqt-a/
> Iain,
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> I was looking at your pictures, and a thought occurred to me. Have you • tried
> lowering the cars? Right now your cars sit on top of the wheelsets, and • you have
> rounded off the bottoms of your car with inverted slopes. It might look • cool if
> the bottom of the car was closer to the track, and if the wheels were • surrounded
> by the car.
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> Just a thought,
> Chris
That was one of the first thoughts after I put the basic idea together. It
looks too high. The real original TALGO trains were very, very low slung -
in fact, the doors between segments would place your knee right about at
axle height as you walked through! This is because the TALGO uses split
axles - in fact, there are no axles. The left and right wheels are completly
separate.
I think I wanted to do something at this height because then it looks a bit
better - maybe, closer to the Metroliner-typ height? I didn't like how "low"
the 4561 cars are. I wanted to have the diaphram between cars, too. :) Maybe
I could have the end cars with steps up, and then have all the other
segments lowered. I wouldn't then know where to put the pivot between cars
though... and I don't really have that many detailed peices.
> P.S. The action shots are neat.
I have fun taking those. I can place my video camera about 1 cm from the
riders and still focus!
Iain
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