Greetings,
I've always been somewhat intimidated by the great 8-wide locomotives fellow
GMLTC members John Gerlach, Dan Siskind, and John Neal have created.
After spending much of last weekend surrounded by the real thing
(see http://news.lugnet.com/trains/?n=19871 G.M.L.T.C. to display at "Day
Out With Thomas™" event, still running through Sunday, May 4th)
I was inspired to try modelling the historic 1913 Dan Patch Electric Lines
100 GE Gas-Electric powered Boxcab. http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=42495
I'm really pleased with the results and plan to try recreating more of the
equipment at the Minnesota Transportation Museum's Jackson Street Roundhouse. http://www.mtmuseum.org/index.html?body=jsr/roster/
If only LEGO made all the parts I needed to make it in the new Dark Blue :)
I need to try now to print up some color decals to match the real thing.
In lugnet.announce.moc, William Toenjes writes: <snip> I can vouch for the niftyness of this model! It's even niftier in person. (I believe I was the photographer for this shot: (URL) ) Early boxcabs are tres cool in my view and not TOO hard to (...) (21 years ago, 4-May-03, to lugnet.trains)
