For all of You Train Lovers

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[Geff McCarthy]

Elegant, purpose-built pax cars. For a tourist train, not overly pricey. Too bad about the style-free freight switchers up front. The Canadian LRC locos were very pleasing to see.

 

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I've always been as impressed with the engineers who design the bridges as I am with the ones who design the trains.

 

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[YY1]

Bridge building is not for amatures.

I used to have a friend that taught at an alternative trade school.

One of his assignments was to build a bridge from one desk to another, spanning 24" using only manila file folders and fasteners or glue as raw materials.
When completed, the bridge had to support the weight of an O gauge locomotive crossing from desk to desk.

I thought that was a great practical application. It was fun, and it forced them to think about load, cantilever, tension, and sandwiched/sistered construction among other things...with a real world consequence.

 

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