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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) <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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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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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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Hi James, thanks for sharing your design ideas! Looks great, except the tiny little 12V wheels - as Gianluca already said. Such a huge loco needs 9V wheels and the motors will go underneath the cars! Your Santa Fe loco will be a good partner for my (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I like it James, I'm not usually a big fan of electric (straight-electric, that is) motive power, but I like your red pantographs. They really give the model that 'second-glance appeal'. Now all you have to do is make some cars to go behind (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) You mean you see Santa Fe locos???? I think they are the most beautiful ones....I remember,from my childhood,some pics of those huge,RED,beautiful locos,on my first illutrated books...it was in the 70s....at that times,in Italy,locos were (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hi James,I also like that Octan set.It's a little masterpiece. (...) So what?You still have 6 months to tell Santa... ;-) (...) James,WOW! Really beautiful,even if *only* 6wide....... It's 36 long...lenght is the second magic way to make (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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SNOT = Studs Not On Top (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) pardon my ignorace, but what is SNOT? i assume we're not talking about nose jelly. (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi all, I have just obtained a set 7722 MISB. I'm thinking of converting this little steam engine to 9V to pull my BricWorx 3-car passenger set. Or should I buy one of the new 'My Own Train' locomotive kits and utilize this to pull my train? How (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) In this Sante Fe loco, the windows are really loosely installed . I've forced a "V" wedge onto the windows, and it's quite fragile about the the side windows, as well. The side windows could be reinforced quite easily if I took more time to do (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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Wow, this is eerily accurate! If anyone needs any digital photos of the real thing, I live literally one block from the Santa Fe railyard (which offers train tours to Lamy). Jacob (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hey look, something worth reading/looking at was posted on LUGNET today! The amount of SNOT you put into your models is incredible, James. I was wondering how structurally sound your designs are, however. Do some parts tend to fall off if (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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