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| Hi all, Just uploaded another train, this time a Japanese (URL). This had been sitting on my computer for ages as I had a couple of problems with it, one of which was the door which I've now fixed using the fence offsetting techniques discussed (...) (18 years ago, 6-Dec-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.jp, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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| (...) -snip- (...) -snip- (...) WOW what eye candy! Excellent! e (18 years ago, 6-Dec-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) Nice work Tim!. I love the details. And I am an especial fan of Japanese trains so this one's even more special for me. Can't wait to see more matching cars, if they are in the plan. JB (18 years ago, 6-Dec-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) Look very good apart form the aspect ratio. Are the real ones really wide or really low? The base is cleverly done though :) Any idea how the real ones work as I've never seen 3 bogies stock before. (18 years ago, 6-Dec-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) The real ones are quite wide (for a Japanese train). The length is too short but I have something against Lego trains that go beyond 36 or so studs, they always look too long to me so I always compress the 'belly' a bit. (...) Afraid I don't (...) (18 years ago, 7-Dec-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Thanks. I don't know what it pulls actually. If you have any idea (ie. links ;)) I'd be happy to make some cars to go with it. Tim (18 years ago, 7-Dec-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) Is this your first post in .trains Eric? ;) Thanks! Tim (18 years ago, 7-Dec-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) I founded .trains in this thread: (URL) here in 1815...just after the rail house was completed> (...) I'd like to borrow some of your techniques so I can build 49 of the EF64's plus key colored left mini-fig arms, and street lights, in to the (...) (18 years ago, 7-Dec-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) Hello, AFAIK, the BBB loco type is mainly used in Italy, Switzerland and... Japan :) at the moment. The debate around CC or BBB loco types is a long lasting one around railways engineers (BTW I'm not one of them). CC type is technically (...) (18 years ago, 7-Dec-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) Thanks for the information Phillipe. (...) That's a great BBB solution. In mine the train is only attached by the middle segment and the other two move (quite far out around corners by some CAD tests I did). Shifting the centre one reduces (...) (18 years ago, 7-Dec-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) There are currently Bo-Bo-Bo (or B-B-B) locos running in France, the Chunnel shuttle locos (URL) Tim (18 years ago, 7-Dec-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| In lugnet.trains, Timothy Gould wrote: ... (...) Hello Tim, In the case of BBB 6002, I just placed the middle bogie free under the loco, with plates on top. There are two rubber bands linking this central bogie to the two others. It keeps the (...) (18 years ago, 7-Dec-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) Well, I've never noticed that before..... Thanks for pointing it out :D (18 years ago, 7-Dec-05, to lugnet.trains)
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