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Re: New Pics of my Hiawatha Locomotive
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Sat, 20 May 2000 12:52:41 GMT
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Sweet job. I especially like the black rail that runs around the top of the
engine. It adds a very nice detail.
How well does that thing round corners? I have found that with the
longer wheelbase you sometimes run into coupling issues. Any insight to you
method would be much appreciated. Thanks.
-Nick
John Neal <johnneal@uswest.net> wrote in message
news:3925B5BB.88017034@uswest.net...
> 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
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> -John
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| (...) Thank you. (...) Cornering, of course, is the rub when creating larger locos because of the unnaturally tight curvature of the track. We are trying to design something that works yet in real life is impossible. So compromises are inevitable. (...) (24 years ago, 20-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | New Pics of my Hiawatha Locomotive
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| I having been working on and off on my 8 wide Hiawatha loco since last winter and have finally finished it:-) It is an Atlantic 4-4-2, the original engine to have pulled Milwaukee Road's famed Hiawatha train which ran between Minneapolis, Minnesota (...) (24 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build) !
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