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Hi,
The BB 63000 series diesel locomotives are famous in France. They have existed
since 1953 and more than 800 have been constructed. More than 600 are still in
use.
These locomotives have four liveries : the older one is called "green livery"
(dark green and yellow line livery). In recent years, the French Railways
Company (SNCF) used a "Fret Livery" (bright green and white) and only one
received an "Infra Livery" (yellow and white). The Fret livery is the one Pascal
Bréard chose for this MOC :
http://www.6studs.com/bb463981/bb463981-eng.html
But a very popular livery is "Arzens livery" (Arzens a french designer) made of
brown and orange. Orange is quite a rare LEGO part color, but Pascal finally
obtained the parts he needed:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=117364
I love his MOC so much that I've asked him for a MLCAD file.....unfortunately,
Pascal does not have any CAD skills. But, surprisingly, he has taken a series of
pictures :
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=117403
The pictures were enough for me to be able to create the MPD file for MLCAD and
building instructions that I can share with you :
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/dickydidier/BuildingInstruction/Train/BB63000/p000.jpg
After moderation : http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=119428
Paradoxically, making the BI took me so much time that I haven't found the time
to build the locomotive :-)
You will notice that :
- The motor is the 12V type but conversion to 9V would be easy.
- Some bricks/plates can be replaced : for example two 2x3 bricks can be
replaced by one 2x6 brick.
- The MDP files uses two unofficial parts (see the www.ldraw.org parts tracker
and www.digitalbricks.nl train parts)
Thanks to Pascal Bréard, Jeroen de Haan for his digitalbricks website, Pierre
Normandin for his precious advice and Rob Hendrix for his kind help in
translating.
Thanks to the whole AFOL community, especially the guys who have created CAD
tools and have authored CAD parts.
Didier Enjary
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| Hi Didier, It's pretty cool. Seen the FRET-version before and I wonder why it has a bike on board? (URL) Are the French drivers too lazy to walk to the front? ;-) Thanks for sharing, Jeroen "Didier Enjary" <d.enjary@wanadoo.fr> schreef in bericht (...) (19 years ago, 2-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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