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(...) Chris, After building your Prime Mover from the PDF I started in on the loco. I just finished building the loco from the PDF. It was only a little harder than one of James' designs. I had to look up one part in peeron. Also with subassy F (...) (18 years ago, 3-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Northern Pacific SW1200
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(...) The build looks great, and big too. (...) I've used brass rod from a hobby shop. Mat (18 years ago, 3-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Jonathan, thanks for the comments. It means a lot comming from you. I more or less like how the Penobscot turned out but it is not as detailed as my previous skyscraper the David Stott building. Of course if you look at the real Penobscot vs (...) (18 years ago, 3-May-07, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Northern Pacific SW1200
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(...) Thanks, Benn. (URL) a picture of the rear>. I choose not to have the handrails at an angle since I felt that it couldn't be properly done. If you can't tell, the rear was inspired in part by Tim Gould's (URL) VO-660>. I've been trying to (...) (18 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | ULUG Train Show from <cough> <cough> March
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To all, Well, ULUG had a great train show in March. I am extremely late getting the pictures posted. I forgot my camera and had to use a family members and then we had a baby ... ULUG has made some really great strides from show-to-show. We have (...) (18 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.org.us.ulug, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, FTX)
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(...) I cheated to flatten the top of the similar handrails on the VO660 buy putting a paperclip inside the flex tube. Tim (18 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Pretty slick! Very good detail all around and clever tricks abound. I like the spark arresters on the stacks. The rear of the cab looks well detailed, do you have a photo of the rear when it is all together too? The only suggestion I have is (...) (18 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LDD Model of GG-1 Electric Locomotive - Advice Requested
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(...) I wonder if it might be possible to pivot where the two trucks join together. We could have an opening for the pin on the motor trucks to move around in, like you have done with the 3-axle trucks. And instead of the half-pin currently used, (...) (18 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Excellent! Greatly looking forward to seeing this and the others in person! Just stunning. Best, Jonathan (18 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: LDD Model of GG-1 Electric Locomotive - Advice Requested
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(...) NOW you tell me :-) Actually I managed to get it built, but it wasn't easy. (...) That doesn't seem to help, as I did a fresh install of the program last night just for this - my wife's Mac didn't have it installed. (...) OK, I will do that (...) (18 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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