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Dalylight train, Southern Pacific Coast
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Thanks to a very timely arrival of engraved parts from Tommy Armstrong, I was
able to finish the assembly of my Coast Daylight passenger cars at the NMRA show
last week.
All photos and cad files on Brickshelf after moderation:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=311464
I so far have an 8 car consist. The double and triple cars are articulated,
sharing a common truck at the articulation point. The double coach car has a
double axel, in my case I used a train motor. The triple dinner uses a 3 axel
truck, which is also articulated for the LEGO version for those tight curves.
The shared truck sits under a block similar to what Steve Barile used on his
light rail train. The end connection between cars is spring loaded useing a 2 x
2 x 2&1/3 spring brick.
This gives me a 1/2 stud spacing between cars when the train is stationary.
These all pass thrue normal curves and s curve just fine. It’s amasing how much
information is archived in the library at ILTCO http://www.iltco.org/library/.
Look under Advanced Train Building.
A baggage coach combination car.
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/impact1/TRAINS/Daylight/dl_b1.jpg
A single coach car.
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/impact1/TRAINS/Daylight/dl_c1.jpg
A triple car Cafe/Kitchen/Dinner.
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/impact1/TRAINS/Daylight/dl_d3.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/impact1/TRAINS/Daylight/dl_d2.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/impact1/TRAINS/Daylight/dl_d1.jpg
A double coach car.
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/impact1/TRAINS/Daylight/dl_e1.jpg
And a lounge observation car.
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/impact1/TRAINS/Daylight/dl_i1.jpg
The “SOUTHERN” and “PACIFIC” bricks were made by Tommy Armstong, the Brick
Engraver http://www.brickengraver.com/prod02.htm. I really love the lookof
this train, and the engraved bricks with the silvergrey lettering really make a
big difference. The font is a slightly compressed version if the “Southern
Pacific Extended” font, by our own Benn Coifman at his Rail Fonts site.
http://www.railfonts.com/cgi/font_shop/fontshop.cgi?ACTION=enter&thispage=page8.html#
I still need to add the daylight logo decals to the side boards. But I wanted to
wait until all the bricks were in place. And there just wasn’t time durring the
show.
I also still need to finish my Steam engin for pulling these cars. For the show
I used my Black widow GP9, coupled to another barrowed from Bruno in the SCLTC.
Mathew Clayson
BAYLTC
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Message has 6 Replies:
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| (...) Mathew: Spotlighted! Wow! I love that articulation work and the way you did your bogie plates. Some ideas there that I have not seen before. The bricks Tommy did look great and I love the color scheme of these cars. Thanks for the link to the (...) (16 years ago, 24-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | Re: Dalylight train, Southern Pacific Coast
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| (...) Fantastic work! I've always loved this train, the color scheme is just so striking. The solution you've used to get the cars so close together is something I very well may have to look into myself for my Tequila Sunrise. The idea of having the (...) (16 years ago, 24-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | Re: Dalylight train, Southern Pacific Coast
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| (...) --snip-- (...) I'm terribly happy to see colourful passenger rakes make a comeback. I'm far too lazy to make them myself but they do look excellent when done as well as this one. Tim (16 years ago, 25-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | Re: Dalylight train, Southern Pacific Coast
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| (...) This is an absolutely stunning passenger train. The articulation of the cars looks awesome and the engraved bricks work beautifully. The GP9 looks a little out of place and I'm a big fan of steam so I'm eagerly awaiting to see the steam engine (...) (16 years ago, 27-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | Re: Dalylight train, Southern Pacific Coast
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| (...) ... (...) Very nice, it is great to see the old consists alive again in Lego and the Daylights were just crying to be done. The lettering looks great and I can't wait to see how your GS4 turns out. So how did you manage to get the (...) (16 years ago, 27-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | RE: Dalylight Train, Southern Pacific Coast
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| I was able to see these in person at this year's NMRA show and they are as described, and then some. A real sight to see. Thanks for bringing them to the show Mat. Ray Silva socalray@cox.net -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com (...) (16 years ago, 28-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains)
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