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Subject: 
New Idea for Rail Ties
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Thu, 21 Sep 2000 17:36:33 GMT
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Check this out:  http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=1399

I have come up with an idea to heighten the realism of the LEGO 9 volt
track.

First, I laid down a 10 wide row of black plates.  Then I laid down the
track.  I next filled in the gaps in the track with dark gray 2x4 plates
on the inside, and 1x2s on the outside.  Then I laid down the brown 1x4
tiles.  Ideally, the outside 1x2 tiles would be replaced with 1x1 brown
tiles-- however, these do not currently exist AFAIK.

Of course, curves will be a little trickier, but I thought I'd toss this
out first to see what folk think.  If a lot thought the idea had merit,
I'd go and figure out the curves and perhaps we could give a unified cry
to LD for bulk dark gray 1x2, 2x4 plates; and 1x1, 1x4 brown tiles.  We
would need *a lot* of them:-)

-John



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  Re: New Idea for Rail Ties
 
(...) Kind of pretty. I see a few minor problems, though: - the underlayment of black doesn't go out far enough - track ties are never brown. (LGB got it wrong) They start out black and fade to a weathered grey over the years as the creosote leaches (...) (24 years ago, 22-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains)

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