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(...) Nope. A wheel is 3 studs wide; if you check the measurements on a typical US truck, you will find that the space between the wheels is less than a wheel width wide. And there are 2 springs visible from the side, which can be simulated with a (...) (23 years ago, 7-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) a space of 3's good for modern US rolling stock, with the 5 springs (3 on outside). Josh (23 years ago, 7-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Build 8 wide;-) <g,d&r> All seriousness aside, nothing is more unrealistic than placing the wheels *together*. For rolling stock, a typical bettendorf truck (I'm talking US here) is best simulated by spacing the wheels 2 studs apart. For the (...) (23 years ago, 7-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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What's a novice train builder to do?? So far I've built all my longer train cars (those requiring bogie plates) with the wheel sets TOGETHER as I've seen in all previous Lego train cars. Now the new 10000 series all have the wheel sets placed 2 (...) (23 years ago, 7-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Ben, I'll post some picture to my ozbricks site as soon as I can tonight. Keep an eye out on (URL) I'll try and build it as close to the original instructions as possible - but I've noted that the box has different markings to the actual train (...) (23 years ago, 7-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.uk)
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