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Re: New MOC:TGV in Orange
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Fri, 4 Jun 1999 23:33:46 GMT
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Ummm, WOW!
I am completly impressed.
This has been my vavorite(sp?) train for a long time, and think it is
great that lego finaly released orange pieces to allow us to construct
this train. But alas, on a college students income, I am not able to
purchase large quantitys of sets.
-Doug
James Mathis wrote:
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> Since the Halloween buckets came out last year, I have wanted to build
> something modeled in orange.
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> Several of us seem to be on the same page these days to model passenger trains,
> specifically TGVs! :-) This is excellent.
> I'm am enjoying seeing all the great work.
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> Orange...TGV...
> I've put up on my web site my attempt to model the French SNCF TGV PSE in its
> orange, black, and white colors.
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> It's only four cars long: two engine units and two simple passenger cars.
> Each of the cars is coupled by means of LEGO yellow rubber bands, which allows
> all four cars to be close-coupled.
> The two passenger cars, at their union, share a common two axle bogie. The
> bogie can pivot independently of either passenger car. This shared bogie also
> free-floats between the two cars with in-line translation on tiled "tongues"
> that fit into slots in both passenger cars.
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> Pictures are worth more than my feeble words. See this model of the TGV PSE in
> orange at:
> http://www.ee.nmt.edu/~jmathis/legopage.html
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> Thanks for looking.
> later,
> James Mathis
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