>
> ...just wait until I come up with my long-cherished railway project: the
> 10,000-Millimeter Ultra Wide Gauge Railway! Monstrous locomotives
> powered by on-board nuclear fusion reactors, 200 meters long and 30
> meters high, six- and eight-storey passenger cars, true rolling cities
> equipped with all facilities of stationary cities, trains up 20 kms
> long, so long that on board these trains a standard-gauge
> "train-on-train" runs, transporting passengers to destinations within
> the train!
>
> But before I even think about starting this project, I will have to do
> MUCH technical research...
>
> And then building a world-wide 10,000-mm track network, including a
> Gibraltar and Bering Strait tunnel... yes, even Hitler's famous-infamous
> "Breitspurbahn" (only 3,000-mm gauge, how pathetic!) would be dwarfed to
> a mere toy beside my railway system!
>
> See you in Khyberspace!
>
> Yadgar

Cool! So we don't need planes anymore?

Cheers
Ton.

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Hi(gh)!

On 09.09.19 01:51, Ton wrote:

> Cool! So we don't need planes anymore?

Not only no planes (the trains would run at 300 kph), but even no cities 
anymore! Snowpiercer de luxe!

And then imagine me as the bio-cybernetically immortalized World Emperor 
who resides on his own private train, long-haired, bearded and crowned 
with a living Eurasian lynx (Tristan, my genetically engineered 
co-regent)...

(yes, I'm a habitual Civilization player...)

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar

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I had a look at the Lohmullers website once again, and noticed their multiple
view pov-file.
I adapted it for a nice view of my Edelweiss.
Where would Povland be without the Lohmullers?

Cheers
Ton.

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Op 11/10/2019 om 08:37 schreef Ton:
> I had a look at the Lohmullers website once again, and noticed their multiple
> view pov-file.
> I adapted it for a nice view of my Edelweiss.
> Where would Povland be without the Lohmullers?
> 

Absolutely! Thanks for that reminder. I do not visit that site often enough.

-- 
Thomas

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"Ton" <ton### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> I had a look at the Lohmullers website once again, and noticed their multiple
> view pov-file.
> I adapted it for a nice view of my Edelweiss.
> Where would Povland be without the Lohmullers?

I have a question about that locomotive: how does it navigate curved tracks with
3-axle carriages?

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On 10/11/19 1:16 PM, Cousin Ricky wrote:
> "Ton" <ton### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> I had a look at the Lohmullers website once again, and noticed their multiple
>> view pov-file.
>> I adapted it for a nice view of my Edelweiss.
>> Where would Povland be without the Lohmullers?
> 
> I have a question about that locomotive: how does it navigate curved tracks with
> 3-axle carriages?
> 
> 

The axles and wheels move laterally in the carriage (carriage == truck 
in America).

Still, the tracks take a beating on curves.

-- 
dik
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Dick Balaska <dic### [at] buckosoftcom> wrote:
> On 10/11/19 1:16 PM, Cousin Ricky wrote:

> > I have a question about that locomotive: how does it navigate curved tracks with
> > 3-axle carriages?


Also submitted for your enjoyment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7h4OtFDnYE

There's also a similar, somewhat counter-intuitive principle that takes place
with belt-driven devices, making it necessary for those wheels to be convex,
rather than concave like a pulley.

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"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> Dick Balaska <dic### [at] buckosoftcom> wrote:
> > On 10/11/19 1:16 PM, Cousin Ricky wrote:
>
> > > I have a question about that locomotive: how does it navigate curved tracks with
> > > 3-axle carriages?
>
>
> Also submitted for your enjoyment:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7h4OtFDnYE
>
> There's also a similar, somewhat counter-intuitive principle that takes place
> with belt-driven devices, making it necessary for those wheels to be convex,
> rather than concave like a pulley.

Another enjoying movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkzgcJGdUnA

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hi,

"Ton" <ton### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> ...
> Another enjoying movie:

students always get to play with the nicest toys.  :-)


regards, jr.

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The interior of the second wagon is done, so time for an update.
One advantage of creating a computer generated image in stead of a physical
object is that multiple objects are easier. I remember from my Titanic days that
somebody was not really looking forward to building 200 deck chairs. In Povray
that's a lot easier.....

Cheers
Ton.

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