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Re: The Royal Train Website
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lugnet.build, lugnet.trains
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Tue, 2 Jan 2001 03:28:33 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Ronald Vallenduuk writes:
> This is absolutely stunning!!
> Not just the layout, but the pictures too. How on earth did you get your
> photo's to look so damn good? Most look like raytrace (And that's meant as a
> compliment here!).
> I'd love to see more pics of the turntable. Even though I haven't started
> with trains (lack of funds) it's something I've thought about, since I grew
> up in a house with N-scale trains. I didn't think a turntable would work in
> Lego, so I'd like to see how you did it.....
It's complex but not undoable. Several people/orgs have done it.
The "old" (1) "main" (2) GMLTC layout had a turntable as well. Mindstorms
actuated/animated. I believe the indubitable J1(3) has expounded on how it
worked. It was pretty nifty as it could autoshuffle 3 locos around 5 stalls,
indexing from one stall to the next.
Also David K. "Zonker" Harris did one: http://www.baylug.org/zonker/
specifically this link: http://www.baylug.org/zonker/ZTurntable.html
Surf brickshelf for the FGLC pics and you'll find this:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=2551 and the first pic in
the folder is of a turntable.
One of BMW's innovations here is that he used hinge bricks instead of
stepping orthogonally to make a circle.
1 - as in "it's gone now, reduced to its constituent bricks, soon to be reborn"
2 - not to be confused with GMLTC South, as BMW(4) styles his display.
3 - John Gerlach, who did the programming and supplied all the RCXs...
4 - BMW, the Cadillac of LEGO(r) diorama makers (or something like that)
++Lar (community memory, and the regurgitation of same, is one reason my
post count is so high)
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| (...) Larry, thanks for the pointers. I just got trains for the first time this December and this coupled with talking to Jim Rosikiewicz about gearing problems for his turntable at the last GardenSLUG meeting has had me thinking about how to do (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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| This is absolutely stunning!! Not just the layout, but the pictures too. How on earth did you get your photo's to look so damn good? Most look like raytrace (And that's meant as a compliment here!). I'd love to see more pics of the turntable. Even (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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