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Subject: 
Vose Inspection Car MOC
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.org.us.nelug
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Sun, 1 Jun 2003 22:14:32 GMT
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well guys,

Thanks to a recent sale at target.com I have my first train parts to work
with.  Here is my first MOC, the Vose Inspection Car.

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=45058

I found it at the following website while looking for a steam engine that
was from my part of the country that would be fun to build.

http://photos.nerail.org/

I can't seem to find too much information about it. This version is the
museum piece because its motor has been removed, but I think that I'm going
to research a way to power it with a micro motor. Does anyone know a really
good way to power something like this?

-tk



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Vose Inspection Car MOC
 
(...) Heya Travis, I saw the pictures of this on Brickshelf even before you posted, and I was blown away. I would love to see some sort of automation added to this, so that it could tool around, even if it had to be slowly, on some small (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
  Re: Vose Inspection Car MOC
 
Cool inspection car! Definitely captures the look of the original, especially with the use of the curved wedges. It's hard to use those in a prototypical model, but you definitely got it. As for powering it, I don't know where you could stuff the (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)

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