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Re: WAMALUG heads underground
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Date: 
Mon, 13 Mar 2000 16:58:52 GMT
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This is really cool.  I love the arching roof structure.  Captures the style
very nicely.  I look forward to seeing further construction.

later,
James Mathis

In lugnet.trains, Christopher Tracey writes:
> Here's a few shots of a study I did for the next WAMALUG layout, a model
> of the WMATA Metrorail system.  We have been talking for a long time about
> adding a model of the metro system to our layout.  If our plan works
> we will start work on special "two-platform tables" to hold it.
> Well anyway back to the station, right now it is only 16 studs long, the
> finished one should be >64 studs long.  On the center platform we have a
> bench and a billboard(nothing's posted inside of it yet).  The studs
> on the edge of the platform represent the "bumpy tile" that they just
> put in all of the stations to warn people of the edge.  This will probably
> be replaced with technic plates and some sort of lights that flash when
> the metro approaches.
> 
> http://www.giccs.georgetown.edu/~dan/lego/pics/Mar12/thumbnails/metro2.jpg.htm • l
> 
> http://www.giccs.georgetown.edu/~dan/lego/pics/Mar12/thumbnails/metro.jpg.html
> (check out the yellow blasphemy in the background of this shot)
> 
> 
> for a pic of a prototype metro station, check here:
> http://www.wmata.com/USINGMET/Stations/capsouth_st.htm
> 
> -Chris



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Thanks for the comments... The whole structure will be underground(as a subway should be), there will be a wall that blocks the outside structure from view. I designed the fin-like structure on the outside to channel light(1) into the actual station (...) (27 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)

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  WAMALUG heads underground
 
Here's a few shots of a study I did for the next WAMALUG layout, a model of the WMATA Metrorail system. We have been talking for a long time about adding a model of the metro system to our layout. If our plan works we will start work on special (...) (27 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)

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