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My bad--I thought I had all the NG's and followups done all nice... In lugnet.org.ca.obb, David Koudys wrote: You are invited to the Toronto Christmas Train Shop this weekend! 12am - 5pm, November 24, 2007 10-4pm November 25,2007 The International (...) (17 years ago, 23-Nov-07, to lugnet.org.ca.obb, lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: building a 4-4-0 American with BBB wheels, advice wanted
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(...) I had very good luck using small and large BBB wheels for my 4-4-0 American on my Christmas Train project. See what I did here: (URL) the tender I just used a 9V engine, but if you had some other power method then two bogies with a total of 8 (...) (17 years ago, 22-Nov-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Pittsburgh & Lake Erie RR Caboose and Hopper
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Yes, These are really awesome! The Caboose is amazing and the hoppers are fantastic as well! Very cool to see your model sitting on the real thing. (17 years ago, 21-Nov-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) snip... Wow. You have really packed in the detail here, I think the caboose is quite astonishing. Probably one of the best train models I have seen... An instatant favourite. Chris (17 years ago, 21-Nov-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Sava Railways' #982 "Lady" (with Big Ben's Medium Drivers)
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(...) Another really fine model. Your locos are a great advert for BBB, I hope you are getting a discount by now!! I can't wait to see what you come up with next ... Chris (...) (17 years ago, 21-Nov-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | building a 4-4-0 American with BBB wheels, advice wanted
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I am thinking about building a 4-4-0 American in 6-wide using BBB wheels. Can anyone suggest what size wheels I should use for the various wheel sets (front truck, driving wheels, tender) to make it look true-to-prototype?. Can use any of the BBB (...) (17 years ago, 21-Nov-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Help looking for specific train pics.
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(...) Thanks John... appreciate your help. AND YES Mike, thank you so much, those are the pics I was looking for, my mistake for thinking it was Brickshelf. Awesome. P.S. Any news on SpringBrick??? I have had almost two weeks of snow, and Im ready (...) (17 years ago, 21-Nov-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Pittsburgh & Lake Erie RR Caboose and Hopper
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Pittsburgh & Lake Erie RR Bay Window Caboose and 100 Ton Hoppers (URL) The (URL) Pittsburgh & Lake Erie RR> established in 1875 connected the steel centers of Connellsville PA, Pittsburgh, and Youngstown Ohio hauling coal, coke, iron ore, limestone, (...) (17 years ago, 21-Nov-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | Re: Sava Railways' #982 "Lady" (with Big Ben's Medium Drivers)
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(...) Wow 'Lady' looks great Tony. As I work in Grapevine (right next to tracks too) I see Ol' Puffy almost daily and 'Lady' is a wonderful tribute to her. You really did her justice. Simply great!!! (17 years ago, 21-Nov-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Drive Rods was... Re: Sava Railways' #982 "Lady"
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(...) Gee John, Your not asking for much. :) More prototypical drive rods would certainly be welcome. They would need to be pretty versatile to cover a wide range of wheel arrangements. So far I've built an 0-6-0T, a 4-4-2, a 4-6-2 and a 2-10-0 as (...) (17 years ago, 20-Nov-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Sava Railways' #982 "Lady" (with Big Ben's Medium Drivers)
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(...) Great little engine. The flags are nice touch. Cale (17 years ago, 20-Nov-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Take a Ride on the Reading ( 0-6-0T Reading Switcher using Big Ben Bricks New Medium Drivers)
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(...) In lugnet.trains, Ted Andes wrote: (...) Thank you both for your comments. The shroud your referring too is the water tank which is where the T in 0-6-0T comes from designating it as a (URL) tank engine>. The most famous tank engine being (...) (17 years ago, 20-Nov-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Sava Railways' #982 "Lady" (with Big Ben's Medium Drivers)
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(...) Another great MOC Tony. Keep 'em coming! :) Ted (17 years ago, 20-Nov-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Take a Ride on the Reading ( 0-6-0T Reading Switcher using Big Ben Bricks New Medium Drivers)
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(...) Cale, Very nice build. I really like all of the amazing detail. Awesome work. When I looked at the pictures of the real engine, I did get the same impression as Tim that the 'back boiler shroud' could be rounder (but I know its always hard to (...) (17 years ago, 20-Nov-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Sava Railways' #982 "Lady" (with Big Ben's Medium Drivers)
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(...) Looks great, Tony! Might be getting time for a cool GROUP SHOT of all of your steam engines.... I eagerly await MY order of medium BBB wheels. There is one thing I'd like to say, and this isn't to you specifically, but it is an appear to Ben (...) (17 years ago, 20-Nov-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Sava Railways' #982 "Lady" (with Big Ben's Medium Drivers)
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(2 URLs) Flickr Gallery> I was fortunate enough to recently get my hands on Big Ben Bricks new Medium Drivers, so I set out to build a Ten Wheeler based off of the Grapevine Railroad's "Puffy". "Lady" is fully track ready, easily negotiating turns (...) (17 years ago, 20-Nov-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Take a Ride on the Reading ( 0-6-0T Reading Switcher using Big Ben Bricks New Medium Drivers)
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(...) --snip-- (...) Hi Cale, I already wrote one response but it seems to have vanished so apologies if this ends up appearing twice... I really like this switcher. The attention to detail and accuracy are superb. I do have one bit which I'm not (...) (17 years ago, 20-Nov-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Take a Ride on the Reading ( 0-6-0T Reading Switcher using Big Ben Bricks New Medium Drivers)
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(...) --snip-- (...) Hi Cale, I think it's a fantastic build with lots of great details. The one bit I'm a little unsure of is the middle section (I'm sure it has some special name but I don't know it) behind the dark grey boiler and in front of the (...) (17 years ago, 20-Nov-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Take a Ride on the Reading ( 0-6-0T Reading Switcher using Big Ben Bricks New Medium Drivers)
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(...) No questions, just a comment: love it! :) Cheers, Matija (17 years ago, 19-Nov-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Take a Ride on the Reading ( 0-6-0T Reading Switcher using Big Ben Bricks New Medium Drivers)
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This is a really beautiful engine. One of the best looking steam engines I have seen. Way to go! -Matt (17 years ago, 19-Nov-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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