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Frank Filz and Brian Darrow posted messages about building trains powerful enough to handles grades, but I'm wondering how you would actually lay track to start up a hill. Has lego ever made uphill or downhill curves, like you would find at the (...) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Any exciting layouts using the new crossover?
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David Graham <david@graham167.fre...rve.co.uk> wrote in message news:FHt4to.MoI@lugnet.com... (...) If exciting includes trains wrecks then my layout is much more exciting! Scott Smallbeck scotts@contactics.com (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Any exciting layouts using the new crossover?
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With the introduction of the new crossover 4515, has anybody designed any exciting (compact) layouts using them. I was diapointed with the standard designs on the in-set leaflet - just the same ones as the 12V crossover. (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: And a new hopper car
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(...) Sorry, I was referring to the KCS (Kansas City Southern Lines) custom hopper/gondola cars they built. (...) Yes, drop-bottom gons are another hybrid type, but different. Those were literary gons whose bottoms dropped [1]. The hopper/gondola I (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: And a new hopper car
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(...) What do you mean by "these" in this context? I mention a lot of car types. cars in coal fields in Kansas and Arkansas and (...) I know that drop bottom gons were used in MOW service a fair bit, they are capable of carrying ballast and dumping (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | from RTL ... a roundhouse
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copied from RTL Subject: Engine Roundhouse Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 09:25:28 +0200 From: Reinhard Beneke <r.beneke@tu-bs.de> Organization: TU Braunschweig, Germany To: r.beneke@tu-bs.de Newsgroups: rec.toys.lego Hi all! I've just finished modelling a (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: And a new hopper car
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KCS (?) used these cars in coal fields in Kansas and Arkansas and presumably intended them as dual-purpose equipment. They were built in the company shops in Pittsburgh, KANSAS and were used in service until the '80s. As for other lines using this (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | sliding doors revisited
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Although I have several of the train door sliding type 1 (URL) I really like what others have done with the non operating doors set out 1/2 brick. I came up with the following way to hang a 1x8 brick door flush against a wall, and yet allow it to (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: And a new hopper car
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Hmm... not sure I agree. At least not totally. It's muddy, and different railroads use different terms, as do different car manufacturers. I spent some time chasing my tail starting from www.nmra.org but didn't come up with anything definitive. I (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: And a new hopper car
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Frank Filz wrote: What you have failed to consider is the hopper/gondola hybrid, which looks like a cut-off hopper car. Of course, I would defer to Lar for definitive details;-) -John (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains)
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