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Re: New Pics of my Hiawatha Locomotive
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.build
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Sat, 20 May 2000 00:15:42 GMT
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Just beautiful. Love the contouring on that front end!
Gotta run.
later,
James Mathis
In lugnet.trains, John Neal writes:
> I having been working on and off on my 8 wide Hiawatha loco since last
> winter and have finally finished it:-)
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> It is an Atlantic 4-4-2, the original engine to have pulled Milwaukee
> Road's famed Hiawatha train which ran between Minneapolis, Minnesota and
> Chicago, Illinois. Only 4 were ever built, numbers 1,2,3, and 4. A pic
> of number 3 is here:
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=3723
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> I have also redesigned my 8 wide passenger cars for it, basically
> eliminating the 1x4x3 train windows and replacing them with 1x2x2 thin
> walls. The scale works out much better with the thin walls. In fact, I
> will no longer use train windows in my trains (wides), but that is
> another story. I have only finished two of the cars; the other 4 are in
> various stages of completion.
>
> Hope you enjoy them!
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=526
>
> -John
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