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Take a locomotive, put huge wheels on it and raise it 15 or 20 feet up. Then have the locomotive compete with other locomoties on a train track figure 8 circuit.
Resulting collisions would make this the show to watch. Trains would be sent tumbling end over end possibly into crowds of horrified
spectators.
"You do *not* want to die like Casey Jones"
http://www.waterval...eyjones/cj~long.htm
Background for [DrCurry]'s remark. [jutta, Dec 12 2005]
The Holman system
http://www.dself.ds...O/holman/holman.htm
[angel, Dec 14 2005]
Even odder
http://www.dself.ds...nge/gaugechange.htm
(Both from Doug Self's excellent site.) [angel, Dec 14 2005]
2 minute walk from where I work.
http://news.bbc.co....2547000/2547561.stm
not very amusing to anyone caught up in the real thing. [po, Dec 31 2005]
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Take this a step further - other regular height trains on the course are narrower, with normal wheels, and use a track set just inside the inside and outside rails of the "monster" track. They can whiz by each other vertically! |
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Spectators would have to be protected somehow. The final show would be a train jump. The arena would be placed at the end of a long straight downhill track. 3 or 4 miles. The loco's would get as much speed as possible and then hit a ramp in order to clear wrecked train cars. |
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Sounds like a steam engine convention. With explosions. |
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You're aware of what steam explosions do to you, right? You do *not* want to die like Casey Jones, and I imagine the fee-paying public will be averse, too. Of course, if you used electric locos, I guess you would cut out the risk of explosions. |
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But who wouldnt like to see a good train wreck every now and then? |
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I do often wonder why nobody created a steam-powered robot for BattleBots. |
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//I do often wonder why nobody created a steam-powered robot for BattleBots// Probably because of the safety rules. |
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Who said anything about steam engines? I guess you could have a classic train race. |
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There would be a bunch of locos at the loco show. |
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