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Re: new waggons by Huw Millington
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 25 Sep 2002 12:06:43 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
> > Wow, these models are cool! Huw has created some new waggons.
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> > This one rocks: very clever design for a heavy load flatbed!
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=248521
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> I liked this one as well. It's an interesting twist on the bent arm approach
> to drop center flats. You can see another approach here...
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> http://www.miltontrainworks.com/item_info_1004.html#MTW-1004-by
Wow, I missed that one. Great idea with the Maerklin-like transformer as load!
I would beg you to post your MOC designs more often here (even if you sell
them...). Or have I just overread your announcement concerning that great
waggon?
Keep on Bricking!
Ben
> I had chosen to have end railings (simulating a car that has many more
> wheels than the car actually does) rather than extending the ends as far as
> Huw did.
> Huw needs a bigger load to justify the drop center though (unless he's
> modeling very tight clearance even by European standards) :-)
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: new waggons by Huw Millington
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| (...) I freely admit inspiration from James Mathis on that one, he posted some Maerklin stuff and had built a trafo car... I dug around at various sites looking for real and toy drop center cars and trafos seem the most common loads so that is what (...) (22 years ago, 25-Sep-02, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: new waggons by Huw Millington
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| (...) Well, since you begged... :-) Here's an announcement of a new design... (URL) have some variants and doodles (for lots of other equipment) which I need to get some pics of. I was lucky enough to be in Portland OR earlier this week and visited (...) (22 years ago, 6-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: new waggons by Huw Millington
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| (...) to drop center flats. You can see another approach here... (URL) had chosen to have end railings (simulating a car that has many more wheels than the car actually does) rather than extending the ends as far as Huw did. Huw needs a bigger load (...) (22 years ago, 25-Sep-02, to lugnet.trains)
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