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Re: New Pics of my Hiawatha Locomotive
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.build
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Fri, 19 May 2000 21:56:53 GMT
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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:-)
And what a engine it is!
> 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.
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> Hope you enjoy them!
Yep, even if it is 8 wide :)
John, a really nice job of making this loco. What are you using as the driver
wheels though? It looks right nice as far as a loco goes, even if it is bigger
than my creations (such as the 200 HP sentinel...I have to do up the web page
some more...)
James
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| (...) *Impurity Warning* ;-) The drivers are the wheels from the 5571 Monster Rig <gasp> cut in half. Then I had to <gasp> file down one of the flanges on each wheel. Finally, in order to get the thing to run properly, I <gasp> glued washers onto (...) (25 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build) !
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