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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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