In lugnet.trains, James Mathis wrote:
> Thanks to Ben Beneke I learned these two things at BrickFest PDX:
Hello James,
thanks for your kind feedback concerning the "Schleimers'" portland trip!
> 1) A German counter-part to the fabled Santa Fe style warbonnett locomotive
> is the German DB v200 or v220(?).
The naming has been updated at some time. V200 abd BR220 are the same engines as
far as I know.
> 2) 7-wide is beautiful ;-)
Thanks! Since you and others have jumped on the 7wide train as well (and since
some visitors must have reported about my presentation at BrickFest, which
leaded to some request by third parties for my presentation) I have now uploaded
that to brickshelf (of course as jpg-slideshow with quite strong
jpep-compression for quick access).
Very nice done; especially the 2nd version with the 6 times windscreen!
The V200 that I showed at BrickFest has been a design of Marmaris (Volker
Draschka) and he used completely different building techniques. Quite
interesting to compare your different styles of building. http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=550972
> Thanks for checking this early version out.
>
> later,
(...) Thanks for that information. (...) prototype. (...) Well, this might be the final version. I'm not too sure I am interested to continue with it. So, I have uploaded instructions for it. Stickers with "DB" would be nice. (...) Very nice. Are (...) (20 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim)
Thanks to Ben Beneke I learned these two things at BrickFest PDX: 1) A German counter-part to the fabled Santa Fe style warbonnett locomotive is the German DB v200 or v220(?). 2) 7-wide is beautiful ;-) Here's my first go at the (URL) DB v200/v220 (...) (20 years ago, 4-Mar-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
