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(...) With engines I always try to build to scale as far as possible, with coaches this usually isn't possible due to length vs curve radius and a few other practical limitations. Around 50-60 studs would be the max for length of any rail vehicle. (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Eggliners are a good joke... But to me, they do NOT capture the essence of a train car. There is a place you have to know where to stop compressing and they went TOO far. That is why in my ATSF project, I made the cars LONGER than Lego chose (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Hey! That looks remarkably similar to Josh Baakko's 8-wide version! (URL) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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In lugnet.trains, Samarth Moray wrote: <snip> (...) Then you get this-- (URL) I have bookmarked and still go there every so often to have a boo at the wonderfulness that is 6 wide... Dave K (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) It's the age old debate b/w 6 and 8 (or other) wide. For me, there are three overwhelming factors for my love of 6 wide and 'selective compression'-- 1. since the minifig isn't to the same scale as a person in all dimensions, making a (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) LMAO! Those are cute! I HATE it when I walk in late on an interesting thread and everthing I want to say has been said already :-( (I hope I don't offend anyone by posting these links, but IMO, these are examples where selective compression (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) I like mine sunny side up;-) JOHN (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Now they ARE cool! Tim (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Please. Are you implying that you wouldn't have literally 100,000s of bricks "left over"? Or are you speaking for anyone else? :-) (...) (URL) THESE> evoke the feeling of passenger cars as well, so what is the point? Are you about "evoking (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Personally, I try and avoid it like the plague. I consider building 6 wide trains an (unnecessary) exercise in width compression. Of all the types of compression, this particular one makes a train look wonky IMO. There is just no getting (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Agreed. Part of the skill (and fun) in building anything real in Lego is to leave in what is essential to the character and leave out what you can get away with to ensure functionality. So, the skill required is beyond simply making something (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Less windows, in my view. Typically, most modelers feel compression works better by having less of a repeating element instead of making the element smaller (you could do some searching of back issues of model railroad magazines for articles (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Just a thought, brought on by you mentioning leaving windows out. Some European HO manufacturers compress the length of long coaches in HO. They do this by having the basic scale of 1:87 but having the length modelled to 1:100. this means that (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Can't speak for anyone else, but I see it as just about mandatory to do anything useable, and still have bricks left over. Replicating every window, every seat, every rivet is just not possible, so leave some out, as long as the feeling is (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) I think it depends on what you are trying to acheive. In this example Steve has used compression pretty well, its not as a compressed as a Lego designed train but he has managed to chop a considerable amount out without it looking 'wrong' (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Hi Steve, I just agree the positive feedback posted in this thread. These coaches look great and, more important than anything else, you seems having fun to build them. (I particularly like the color scheme (aka livery) :-)) One point I am (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) One thing I did to get them straight was to make the sticker the height of a whole brick (I was sticking them on whole bricks), I printed cut lines on the sticker sheets to make sure that the lettering was straight on the sticker. I know what (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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I'm surprised I haven't seen this posted yet. I just checked the LEGO Shop at Home site and the 2005 Maersk Sealand ship is now available in the US: (URL) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-05, to lugnet.promo, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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(...) that D&RGW was a late entrant into Amtrak, as it was run by them for a while and was a money maker for them. I'm not up on the history of it and whether they still run it or whether an excursion company does, or what. (20 years ago, 29-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) [Snip a lot] Thanks for sharing these pictures Steve! Your coaches are really beautiful. I love designs with more than just two (or three) colours. And as Larry mentioned: these stairs are really worth to be copied! Regards, Ben (20 years ago, 29-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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FYI there is also a "ski train" running from Denver into the Rockies that is painted the D&RGW colors. Of course that falls into the excursion catagory, but must be a site to see! (URL) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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I LOVE constructive criticism!!!!! I really appreciate the time and effort that it takes! This is my first time using stickers rather than water slide decals and I kind of don't like them! So you obviously picked up on that vibe. I have some (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Well seeing as how they are 60 miles apart and South Bend (which is serviced by South Shore) is 90 miles from Chicago, I'd think they are different cities. But what do I know? Jason Spears | (URL) House of Bricks> | (URL) BrickCentral> | (URL) (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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Thanks, Larry, and everyone else. I'm not sure what I saw - several matching passenger cars with an F-class locomotive in the same livery. Seems like I used to occasionaly see a UP or SP passenger train when I lived in Austin, too. Probably private (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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I'm going to reply to my own post, bad form I know but I seems to do it all the time! What I meant to get across with my last paragraph, but completely failed was that I feel that this is like a great TLC/TLG set, in the same way that the Santa Fe (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) South Shore is probably commuter, and Metra certainly is commuter, so not covered under the enabling legislation which applies to "scheduled revenue intercity service" (Most normal people would call Michigan City a different city than Chicago (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Oops! I really should have read that 'blay' word there. I'll excuse myself by pleading language differences (Aus/US) so my eyes weren't drawn to it. Yeah! That'll work. The current orange looks perfect to me but then I am colour blind so that (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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I have to say I love this, you really seem to be on a roll at the moment. The choice of protoype is good, the livery is very attractive and the choice of orange makes for a great model. These is one (or five) of those models that work at two levels, (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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I finally got around to uploading pictures of my N-Shape factory. Oddly enough, this building is about to be retired, after being shown on a few Central Ohio Lego Train Club (COLTC) shows. (2 URLs) Some of the pictures were taken with 1x15 technic (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-05, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) It may have been a shipper inspection train, or an excursion, those are both not "scheduled revenue intercity" service and thus not subject to the provisions of the Amtrak legislation. (...) As Frank said, no, not intercity. The deal made with (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Well I just took a non-Amtrak train from Michigan City to Chicago yesterday. (URL) NICTD> provides service from South Bend into Chicago and has for many years. Also (URL) Metra> has trains that run from downtown Chicago into a lot of the (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Essentially no. There is some commuter rail service operated by metro transit authorities (Boston is the example I'm most familiar with). There are a variety of tourist railroads, but they mostly don't serve as general transportation. Frank (20 years ago, 29-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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I figured I wouldn't get flamed too badly on the "friendliest place on the Internet" -- what is the status of individual railroads' passenger service in the U.S.?? I was under the impression that Amtrak provided (almost?) all inter-city passenger (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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Steve, These coaches look gr-gr-gr-great! The 4-color livery really pops for the eye. Looking forward to your loc of choice to pull this set. later, James Mathis (20 years ago, 29-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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I actually mentioned that dark blay might have been a better choice for the roof in the MOC pages text. I'm a huge fan of new colors, no insult at all! I only wish I had a ton of blay / dark blay to work with... Actually the pearlesque gray would (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) That's a truly lovely set of carriages. I really like the livery and am glad you didn't take the shortcut of using regular orange. Although I'm going to be fla(y/m)ed royally for this, the greys look like they could be replaced by... bleys... (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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This era coach can go both ways actually, diesel or steam. As Larry sugeested the element selection in medium orange is very limited, the F7s would be hard to model in real Brick, even though I love them. So I have been planning on a black steamer. (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Sure! and as soon as LEGO makes that car hood piece available in his orange, he could just crib my design and he'd be all set. I wonder if I should ldraw it? But I still think that these cars would look SWEET behind JT's black and orange (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Larry, I see you posted a Visitor review on steve's MOC Page... "Larry Pieniazek (from Ada, Michigan, USA,Earth) March 28, 2005 Wow. This is a tour de force! Whether prototypical or not, it would totally rock to see these pulled by JT's DRGW (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Oh, those are just lovely. Great great great use of the not-quite-orange orange color. One very minor nit? They look like they could use some more greebling on the undercarriage. And a question - what sort of locomotive will be pulling these (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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