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(...) as (...) Some (...) cheap (...) couple (...) Ooh, I really didn't need to see those pictures... I keep stealing glances at the Playmobile toys. They just look so nice, and mixing them with large scale trains ooh ahh (of course Playmobile's own (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | RE: James Mathis goes US-proto: 8-wide Sante Fe study
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(...) Of course. I don't succeed in highest durability either. But I usually get bored with a model too soon to make revisions to the design. Detail is always the first priority. On my models, the mirrors also fall off, as do other parts, but (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: James Mathis goes US-proto: 8-wide Sante Fe study
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(...) Yes. (...) Same place. I have only intended this Sante Fe to be a design study for the nose/cab only for this locomotive. I will likely not finish this model. (...) That was fun to figure out . :-) Amazing how well engineered LEGO element (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: James Mathis goes US-proto: 8-wide Sante Fe study
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(...) The best that I see are pictures found in either books or on the web. ;-) But, yes, I can see them in real-life traveling the tracks near where I live. I live 2.3 hours away from the city of Sante Fe, New Mexico, USA. The locos of this style (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Amtrak HHP-8
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(...) <snip old intro stuff> (...) I like th red pantagraph, as well. Credit goes to the artistic designers for the real-life version. I only used the color scheme they used. (...) You and Larry P. are on the same page, here. Ugh, those curved-wall (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: My Agonizing Decision
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It looks to me like the motor is in the tender (on the 7722), what I think I'll do is put the 9V motor in the tender and put either the red or black 4.5V/12V wheels on the engine. I think this would look better than the new engines being offered by (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: My Agonizing Decision
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(...) I have 7722, and converting it to 9v is easy. Pull one motor out and put the other one in. You need a couple of bricks to hold the 9v motor in place, but it really is only a couple. I don't have one of the new engines yet (I am thinking of (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Amtrak HHP-8
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(...) I have to agree on the red pantos, those really make it special. (...) I wish Acela all the best but I recently had reason to take the train Boston to NYC and I could not justify Acela to my management. Regular service fare was something like (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: James Mathis goes US-proto: 8-wide Sante Fe study
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(...) I do... I've seen some of JM's models in the flesh and they do get firmer as he goes through iterations but some of his early protos are fragile. But then so are some of mine. I don't necessarily design for highest durability, that takes a (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Neals Baits, I'm biting.
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In lugnet.trains, John Kelly III writes: <snip> (...) I read through this fairly carefully, and unless J3 is saying that J2 is saying that people should say that their creation is "pure" when it isn't, I do not think these two are disagreeing. And I (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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