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Re: Microscale 725 Freight Train finished
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lugnet.build.microscale
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Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:36:51 GMT
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Thomas Main wrote:
> I completed the cars for my microscale 725 Freight Train and posted pictures
> today:
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=257661
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> A question for someone who is more knowledgable than I about trains...what is
> the thing I call "milk truck" really called? This is just what I imagined it to
> be as a child. To quote Modest Mouse, "Blame it on the Tetons."
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> --
> Thomas Main
> thomasmain@charter.net
Dear Thomas,
this is a very detailled micro train indeed - I love it!
Ages ago (1999?) I did a mix of a 720 set and the 725 together with 149 in a
micro-version. Building techniques have really made huge steps ahead since then.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=122337
My former collegue who graduated as a Dr.-engineer that day was a huge fan of
the blue 12V system and the 725 train in special.
We always saw a contrete silo waggon in this car.
http://www.modellbahnecke.de/bilder/roco/46092.jpg
Alternatively this has been regarded as tank car for chemical stuff like
acids....
With kind regards,
Ben
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| (...) I think it is not used for concrete, but for cement (or other powder materials). There is another example similar to the 725, but with four tanks: (URL) is called "Car for transport of bulk-loaded powder materials" (literal translation from (...) (18 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.build.microscale)
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