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(...) Anyone know why Huw's site doesn't work? I wanted to check it out again for reference for a project that I am working on. I get a 404 error. -Jason (24 years ago, 20-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: my MOC blue mallet steam engine finally is done !!!
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The way in which you see the pix and the angle of the shots is with out a doubt one of the coolest things I have seen on the net forever. There is'nt one word I can think of to encapsulate it's "_______" !!!!!!! Blue Mallet.....right on!!!!!! Eric (...) (24 years ago, 20-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)
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Bryan, (...) for that I can recommand (URL) there I got some parts for the mallet (not the curved ones) and already found many of these in gray and black (for comming projects). (...) Webdesign especially with flash is one of my hobbies, so I spend (...) (24 years ago, 20-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)
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Adrian, I really like this model and the use of the blue quarter rounds. Those little parts are pretty tough to come buy in a decent quantity of any color. I'm trying to assemble a large number of the gray parts in both the 4 wide and 1 wide width. (...) (24 years ago, 20-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) The car is rotated to empty it out. In the dusty archives of this group is a link to a rotary tipper that someone built. Note that in the prototype, often a cut of cars is rotated *in place*, that is, while still coupled in the train. This (...) (24 years ago, 20-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) the (...) Some coal cars in the US are dumped by being picked up and turned over. The "doors in the bottom" dump concept does not work because the coal jams up. A problem with the dump method is that sometimes the coal be wet and will freeze (...) (24 years ago, 20-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)
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I Southern Estonian the have a rotary, where they grap the car and turn it upside down. I guess that will leave it very empty. Looks just likes Gods hand turning a hopper like we would do. Personally I am more into tipper cars (...) (24 years ago, 20-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi All, Does anyone have a font for the Chessie Raod Name? I noticed some various rail fonts at: (URL) anyone use them, comments? Thanks SteveB (24 years ago, 20-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Could be if it is a rotary dump coal car. I just happened to have posted an MOC of a rotary dump coal car, namely a BethGon Coalporter: (URL) it have half cylinders underneath, or look like the one in the photo? These cars are cool, and they (...) (24 years ago, 20-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)
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This isn't really about LEGO, but it is about trains, so here goes: On the trolley home from work tonight, we passed over a train with a long series of empty coal cars. Looking down into them, I noticed that they really were empty--almost no loose (...) (24 years ago, 20-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)
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