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Re: monorail follies
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 2 Oct 2000 20:44:35 GMT
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"Frank Filz" <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> 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).
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> Frank
Actually, it looks better to put the train car with the battery box up front
next to the motor, followed by the full sized passenger cars. So now the
truth comes out:
After I wrote my first message I took the train off the scanner and set it
up on the kitchen counter to explain my delimma to my wife (who's AFOL-ness
is limited to wearing a watch). Without looking up from her cookie-making
she says, 'Well I guess you'll have to put one car in front instead of two'.
Well duh.
And indeed that works fine. The only consequence is that my track design
needs to be terminated by loops instead of deadends since the train won't
run through the turnouts backwards.
Now the only thing that looks slightly amiss is the gap between cars
connected by the ball and towbar. I tried shortening the gap by one stud but
then the cars hit each other on the curves. Back in Mike Walsh's original
thread, Larry Pieniazek mentioned 'the James Mathis Connection Method(tm)'.
I haven't found the thread that discusses this. Are there words? Pictures?
Thanks
Cary
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| In lugnet.trains, Cary Clark writes: <snipped the comments about motor location and ball-socket connector> (...) (URL) qualifying statements: 1. first off, I've been really bummed for about 6 months: I've lost my Airport Shuttle monorail motor and (...) (24 years ago, 2-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 1-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains)
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