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APRIL FOOLS!!!

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technically that wouldn't work You'd need to have a bendable body & more trucks under it
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Ben,
Not Really! You just need 240 inch curves #36 Switches and a lot of side clearance on curves. You might need to add a suspension tower and steel cables to the ends to keep the middle off the tracks.

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Well.... if you put a helium filled balloon in the middle you wouldn't need more trucks. As it sits now it should take an 18" curve rather nicely.
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Well.... if you put a helium filled balloon in the middle you wouldn't need more trucks. As it sits now it should take an 18" curve rather nicely.

Originally posted by MBVince - March 31 2014 :  2:53:21 PM



LOL tell the "little people" standing on the inside of the curve to run!

John, just put it on the route the Gas Turbines used to run - loooong straight stretches!

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You know, some guy already built something an awful lot like that...

http://sbiii.com/emd.html

Oh, and there's a page of shortened ones he made somewhere too.

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goes to show you the old saying " if you look hard enough you can find a prototype for it " This reminds me of the steam turbine experiments at the end of steam era.
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