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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 21:34:29 GMT
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In lugnet.build.microscale, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke wrote:
> 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....
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> With kind regards,
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> Ben
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:
http://www.parostroj.net/katalog/nv/clanky/preprava_cementu/preprava_cementu_Raj.php3
It is called "Car for transport of bulk-loaded powder materials" (literal
translation from bureaucratic dialect of Czech to bureaucratic dialect of
Czenglish :-/), maybe we can call it a "cement hopper"?
I am also not sure whether the red 725 car is a caboose - in my opinion it looks
more like a boxcar with a brakeman's cab.
Nevertheless, the microtrain is perfect. Thomas, put it on some blue micro-track
:-)
Full steam ahead,
Martin
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| (...) Dear Martin, of course you are right. Although I should know the difference, I use usually the word concrete (aka "Beton" in German) for all states of aggregate: power cement, (fluid) ready mixed concrete and the finalized concrete (...) (17 years ago, 22-Jun-07, to lugnet.build.microscale)
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| (...) 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. (URL) former (...) (17 years ago, 20-Jun-07, to lugnet.build.microscale)
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