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The New England LEGO Users Group (NELUG) will have a small display this weekend
at the 1st Annual Westside Model Train Show in West Springfield, MA.
The show is Saturday, February 28th from 10am to 4pm at the West Springfield
Middle School, located at 31 Middle School Drive in West Springfield. Proceeds
from the show go to benefit the John Ashley & Willima A. Cowing Public Schools.
If you're in the area, please drop by and see us.
-Elroy
http://www.nelug.org
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NELUG to show at Hooksett, NH Lion's Club Train Show
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NELUG will be showing a small train layout at the Hooksett, NH Lion’s Club Model
Train Show this weekend, on Sunday, April 20 at the Hooksett Cawley Middle
School in Hooksett, New Hampshire. Doors are open from 10am to 3pm. Admission
is $4 or adults, $1 for children 6-12, and free for children under 6.
The layout will include a small town, carnival, and farmlands, as well as
various rolling stock, steam and diesel locomotives, and general NELUG goodness.
If you’re in the area, please drop by and see us.
-Elroy
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I’m slowly adding to my collection of vintage Rutland locos and cars. The
latest is a Rutland gondola, based on an old photo found
here, and an n-scale version pictured
here.
NELUG
Gallery
The sides of the gondola are built from bricks laying on their sides, with some
SNOT to work in the slopes. I attempted to build the car as low to the ground
as I could, similar to the prototype.
The bed of the car is made up of 1x4 tiles on plates. The plates rest on 1x6
plates, on their sides, which span between the two sides. Unfortunately I
haven’t figured out the trick to photographing black, so some of the build
details are obscured.
I haven’t tested this on a track yet, but it looks nice displayed behind my
Rutland RS3.
-Elroy
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After working out how to build the Rutland boxcar, I decided to work on one of
the Rutland’s diesel locomotives to pull it. An RS-3 looked like a nice
challenge, and Rutland owned a few of them.
I tried to capture the most distinctive characteristics of an RS3. Mainly, the
curved body, and the blocky trucks. The front truck of this model is brick
built, and the motor is brick decorated. The trucks are a bit fragile, and I
haven’t had a chance to run my rainbow-colored test model on a track yet, so I
don’t know how much run time I’ll get out of them.
The windows needed a built solution as well. My original model used 1x2x2
windows, but I found that they don’t come in green, so the cab had to be
rebuilt.
A prototype photo is at
http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?photo=2007051000383328843.jpg for
comparison.
-Elroy
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One of the positive sides of all the recent talk of 9v trains is that it got me
building again. I don’t usually post renders, but I liked the way this one
turned out, and I don’t (yet) have the pieces to build it.
Here is my version of Rutland Railroad’s boxcar #104:
Prototype information is here. Reading
through that page, there is some debate about the color of the roof on the
original cars. I went with yellow since that’s what most of the eyewitnesses
claim to remember.
Sadly, the Rutland died back in the 1960’s, but the bright green and yellow
boxcars make excellent models. The door is based on Chris Masi’s excellent
opening door design, which has become my default for boxcars. Sticker .dat’s
were generated using Scott Wardlaw’s sticker generator, and the trucks are those
that were featured in the first issue of RailBricks.
-Elroy
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