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(...) Ah, who cares what gauge we make our railroad? No one else is ever going to build a railroad within 100 miles of us, so the fact that we're incompatible with everyone else doesn't matter. - president of a forgotten railroad, ca. 1835... (...) (27 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) "ever"? Sooner or later, there will be a big North American Lego train show with lots of clubs attending. I bet it happens in less than ten years. When that happens, everyone who builds to 60" instead of 65" will be happy they did so. /Eric (...) (27 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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Wow John you are a brave man indeed. I have a hard enough time monitoring the trains, and keeping an eye out for run away toddlers (and if anyone has one they know that a couple of pieces of rope mean nothing), but having to keep an eye on the (...) (27 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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In lugnet.trains, Mike Poindexter writes: <snip> (...) <snip> Serious question: How likely is it that we'll ever be at a show where we need to think of "compatible modules"? The closest other train club (so far) to us is where? Georgia? PNTLC? We (...) (27 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) Ropes? Huh?? ;-) The GMLTC lets kids get right up to our layout. Touching is discouraged, but it still happens. Yes, we get the occasional *crash*, but we can always rebuild. We had a great one this weekend, kid got his fingers in front of my (...) (27 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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I would venture to say that 45" x 60" would be better. The reason there is that even though you lose 5" on the length, you keep the modules in increments of lg. gray baseplates. That is important if you want to allow another group to slip module (...) (27 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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The tables used by the NGLTC where built using the original standards published by the PNLTC. They are a bit narrower (to fit the mini van) but are the same height and use the same basic principle of connecting together. Only one table of the entire (...) (27 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) If we just use the grey baseplates, 45x60 or 45x75 would make the most sense. But, our trailer is 76 inches wide, with a door 72 inches wide. With the 65 inch length, we can put the racks into the trailer sideways, and still have enough room (...) (27 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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Somehow, 65" doesn't sound right to me. Whole baseplates would be best, no? If you are going to go that long, why not bump up to 80" so that you can use standard hollow core doors for table tops. It would be an inexpensive solution... Build On! John (...) (27 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) Short answer: No standard Long answer: There is no standards making body. But there were defacto standards... There WERE two standards, sort of. PNLTC and other "non legomodular" clubs seemed to be working to one module standard. At least (...) (27 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) Hi Robin! Wow! Your superliner model is excellent. I have to find myself a copy of the flying time vessal in order to build one of my own. I like the cutaway aspect of your station, it captures the look and feel of a big city station so well. (...) (27 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains)
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(...) WAMALUG generally uses 40.25" by 40.25"(4x4 baseplates) square tables. This allows for a complete circle of track to fit on a single table and makes penisulas easy. Our current tables have 2x2 legs that fold into the tables for storage. We (...) (27 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) The idea brought forward so far is to have the modules at the high end of the set up to be built on adjustable table legs, where it can be continually raised up a few notches each time a new segment is added to from the low end. Dan (27 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) The pics on the web site look great. Would you be able to e-mail me the big boy pics. I am putting together a web site for viewing. Thank you, Stacy (27 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains)
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Is there a standard for the size of modules? Good Question. Different clubs use different sizes. In PNLTC we have atleast four different sizes. I think width doesn't matter too much, but length does. In generally I fully support keeping everying in (...) (27 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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Mayor Quimby Mobilizes Town Guard, Calls Emergency Session of Members Storm Watch 2000 (GMLTC Press, Legopolis) Meteorologists at the national weather service have declared Legopolis to be smack within the predicted landfall of Hurricane Neal, now (...) (27 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) But that means you cant do any small layout by leaving away some middle sections, right? Or do you have some kind of big plates to be put under the lower modules? Are the points of giving track from one edge of a module to the next always the (...) (27 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) (or (...) Thanks Larry for your answer to poor foreigner without knowledge of inches.... Next question: is there already a standard for Lego train modules, accepted by most train clubs? Or is there no compability between any of them? Regards, (...) (27 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) 14 tables, each 40" x 65" (128 studs x 208 studs). Total layout dimensions should be 672 studs x 1040 studs. Low end will have tracks at 8 (10?) bricks above the baseplate, high end will have tracks at 20 bricks above the baseplate. Tentative (...) (27 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: New LEGO train realism? (was:Re:infrared remote control of LEGO trains using NCQ and RCX)
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(...) non (...) the 32x32 baseplate is a nominal 10 inches square... So that means that a 45 x 60 inch module is essentially 3x4 of the monster 48 stud square baseplates. (or 4.5 x 6 of the more normal sized ones) I dunno about 40 x 65 inch (...) (27 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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