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Re: Who has Metroliner cars?
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Mon, 7 Feb 2000 18:56:11 GMT
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Mike Poindexter wrote:
> At the risk of letting the cat out of the bag, I know of a person who has a
> s*** load of Metroliners. Any chance he will hook us up? (Hint, hint!)
Good thing you didn't give out their name, they'd be deluged ;-) I still need 2
more 4558s ;-)
> Beyond that, the only other person around us who has a Metroliner is the 3
> car unit Eric McCarthy had. Of course, we will have to convert most of
> these to all cars, which is not really that easy. Each metroliner comes
> with 14 windows and the standard pullman coach takes up 10. That puts you
> short 6 windows on coach #2 and only enough doors for 2 coaches anyway. I
> built the subway style of cars, as they only require 8 windows each. Still,
> I am very short on windows as it is.
Yes, I'm trying to work around this, and will cheat too - not ALL cars have to
be passenger cars, I will make a few baggage only cars that will have the large
doors from the rear non-powered engine car, and (until I can get enough windows)
will try to figure out how to use less windows in a few other cars.
2 of my Club cars will be built as intended, the other 2 will be "regular
passenger cars with storage underneath" - the dropdown section will have doors
to store stuff in (bicycles, luggage, etc).
> I have 5 club cars built in yellow/black that I am going to change over to a
> black metroliner, possibly.
That's a whole different topic ;-) I'll be working on a "short" black
Metroliner (10 cars or less) once the Soccer vans come out, and the window panes
will either be plain glass, or the trans-lt-blue from 3225s. I'm also debating
on whether I'll make them black with the RWB stripe, or make a red/black scheme
to match my freight train.
> Mike
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> Tom Stangl, VFAQman <talonts@vfaq.com> wrote in message
> news:389E924C.9979CB46@vfaq.com...
> > If we end up doing NMRA, it would be nice to have a monster Metroliner on
> > the layout. I'll have at least 15 cars relatively soon (not all with full
> > doors/windows - 3 4558s, 2 grey wagon plates, and 4 4547s), Mike has 12, so
> > that's 27 already. Anyone else have any?
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> > If I can manage to somehow find any grey windows without spending a mint,
> > my goal is 20 cars for my 4558.
> >
> >
> > --
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Message has 1 Reply: | | Re: Who has Metroliner cars?
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| (...) panes (...) debating (...) scheme (...) I'm nearly done working on my articulated dining car with domes for a yellow and black metroliner, but it lacks windows (of course! :). I might convert it to all black if we need to. (...) Sorry, I don't (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| At the risk of letting the cat out of the bag, I know of a person who has a s*** load of Metroliners. Any chance he will hook us up? (Hint, hint!) Beyond that, the only other person around us who has a Metroliner is the 3 car unit Eric McCarthy had. (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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