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Re: Texas & Pacific #610
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.general
Date: 
Fri, 4 Feb 2011 06:32:22 GMT
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Anthony Sava wrote:
   My model of #610 has been built in its American Freedom Train livery, rather than the Texas & Pacific livery she wears today. She is powered by two Power Functions train motors in the tender and is fully track compatible including switches and S curves. From the limited testing I have performed I predict she will be a regular performer at events.

--Tony

Nice work. Clever use of the camera and the suspension on the drivers is great.

Benn



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  Re: Texas & Pacific #610
 
(...) Thanks Benn. The camera was one of those rare lucid moments where I had pieces on the table and a photo in my hand and things just clicked. As for the suspension... I'm terribly tempted to go back on most of my other steam engines and add them (...) (14 years ago, 8-Feb-11, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)

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  Texas & Pacific #610
 
(2 URLs) Gallery> The (URL) Texas & Pacific #610> is the sole surviving example of the earliest form of the super-power steam locomotives built by the Lima Locomotive Works from 1925 to 1949. The super-power locomotives were the first to combine a (...) (14 years ago, 31-Jan-11, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)  

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