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(...) OOh, before Lar jumps in here ranting about compression, blah, blah, blah and the flames start igniting(;) I will say these two things about 8 wide. First, I feel 8 wide *is* MF scale; it just allows for a little more interior room (Also, see (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Here is my attempt to begin a model of a likeness of a Talgo passenger train set. The train may be bland, but the focus of this work has been to create a working shared monoaxle wheelset between adjacent passenger cars. The train cars are close (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Future of LEGO Trains ? was Re: Model Railroad Scenery
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(...) To clarify, I was running at the end 89 cars with 3 motors on the point. The circuit is 124 pieces long, and I had a gap of 4 pieces. So, total length was 1920 studs, with a average length per car of 21 studs. (somewhat longer than a 16 plate (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: what do these MOW vehicles do?
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(...) Darn larry, you're hard to beat sometimes... but I came through with a workable URL quicker... FUT lugnet.off-topic.fun (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: what do these MOW vehicles do?
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What do you know. Well, here's some pics of 6700s... (URL) are tampers. They tamp ties. That is, they reseat the tie in the ballast to make sure that it's evenly distributing weight, and that it hasn't sunk too deeply into the roadbed. The reason (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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