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Re: A project idea for someone...
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lugnet.trains
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Sun, 17 Nov 2002 05:26:33 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Matthew J. Chiles writes:
> Here is an idea for a radical steam train monorail - it could easily
> be done using a single rail of old 4.5V track or possibly 12V center
> track:
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> http://www.dself.demon.co.uk/locoloco/lartigue.htm
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> Yep, you will even be modeling real prototypes...
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> -Matt :)
-you haven't heard the best part of this one (in full size). To get a cow to
market, you needed two calfs as well. (that or 2 cows...). The cars had to be
reasonably ballanced in order to work. So, your cow went on one side, the two
calfs on the other side, until the train got to the market, when the cow would
be taken out, and the two calfs would be evenly distrbuted, one a side.
There were lines on this prinicpal assembled in the US and France as well as
Ireland. Inventor was a Frenchman.
James P
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| Here is an idea for a radical steam train monorail - it could easily be done using a single rail of old 4.5V track or possibly 12V center track: (URL) you will even be modeling real prototypes... -Matt :) ---...--- www.insidethevault.com - (...) (22 years ago, 17-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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