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Re: monorail follies
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lugnet.trains
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Sun, 1 Oct 2000 23:00:31 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Cary Clark writes:
> The first time I tried to turn it through a turnout all four cars fell off
> the track. I thought that maybe a wheelset had been misaligned, and then I
> thought that the turnout switch was stuck. But the problem is that the motor
> is pushing two cars in front of it instead of one. The piece before my
> turnout happened to be a curve, and that's it, I'm doomed. The motor is 90
> degrees away from the first car when it hits the switch so it pushes the
> second car right off the track. I can redesign my layout to put a straight
> in front of a straight turnout switch, but not for the curved portion of the
> turnout. The only piece that will mate to the curved portion is a short
> curve, and that guarantees that the motor will be pushing at the wrong
> angle, derailing the cars. I think.
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> Is this old news? Has anyone figured out a way around this? Or maybe this is
> why Lego never offered expansion cars for its monorails.
If you are willing to only run the train in one direction, the trick would be
to push one car and tow three. Of course it puts the motor off center which
will look funny (but then, to some extent, in any more than two car train, the
motor will look somewhat funny). If one could trust the motors to slip well,
one could run a 4 car train which is really two monorail trains (but the
monorail motor won't slip as well as a train motor since it really can't slip
on the track).
Frank
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| "Frank Filz" <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:G1rx8v.Gu@lugnet.com... (...) be (...) which (...) the (...) well, (...) slip (...) Actually, it looks better to put the train car with the battery box up front next to the motor, followed by (...) (24 years ago, 2-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| Inspired by Mike Walsh and others, I decided to make a four car monorail. I left my Airport Shuttle alone -- which turned out to be a really good idea -- and created a clone in black with a yellow stripe, dictated mostly by the color of my available (...) (24 years ago, 1-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains)
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