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Subject:	Slotted freight cars
Newsgroups:	lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains
Followup-To:	lugnet.trains
Date:	Tue, 16 Dec 2003 04:07:21 GMT
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Recently I've been working with this part: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/thinice/boxcars/dsc00029.jpg and felt that it could be useful in creating some nice looking freight rolling stock. I believe I was right. I was able to come up with a simple design that worked very well and I reproduced the design in three different colors: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/thinice/boxcars/dsc00017.jpg http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/thinice/boxcars/dsc00018.jpg Also as a bonus the cars have working sliding doors. Here I had to be creative and I came up with a pretty niffty solution. I added the 1x8 slotted rails above and below the door opening: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/thinice/boxcars/dsc00027.jpg then on the back of a 6x8 plate I attached two Adventure type wind screens: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/thinice/boxcars/dsc00026.jpg Once inserted the wind screens fit perfectly in the tracks, when the door is closed you just gently push the door tight and it locks in place: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/thinice/boxcars/dsc00025.jpg to open the door just pull the door a very tiny bit away from the car and the door will slide open with ease: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/thinice/boxcars/dsc00024.jpg My dark grey car does not have the sliding door yet since I don't have the 1x8 slotted rails in dark grey. So for now it has a stationary door, but both the black and grey cars both have sliding doors. For all the pictures (once moderated): http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=62420 jt ---------------------- James J. Trobaugh North Georgia LEGO Train Club http://www.ngltc.org

Message has 3 Replies:

		Re: Slotted freight cars
Awesome! They capture the look of stock cars very nicely. Jeez that's a lot of those... -Stefan- (21 years ago, 16-Dec-03, to lugnet.trains)

		Re: Slotted freight cars
The sliding dorsa are brilliantly simple. They move in a similar manner to sliding plug doors and your design has given me inspiration for use on smaller passenger stock doors. Tim (21 years ago, 17-Dec-03, to lugnet.trains)

		Re: Slotted freight cars
In lugnet.announce.moc, James Trobaugh wrote: <snip re sliding doors> (...) (21 years ago, 17-Dec-03, to lugnet.trains)

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