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Whist not as nice as John's, I have put up some more photos on my web page, of locos. I really have to sit down with all my locos and take a bunch of photos...some of these are not all that good. (URL) (24 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New Pics of my Hiawatha Locomotive
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(...) *Impurity Warning* ;-) The drivers are the wheels from the 5571 Monster Rig <gasp> cut in half. Then I had to <gasp> file down one of the flanges on each wheel. Finally, in order to get the thing to run properly, I <gasp> glued washers onto (...) (24 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: New Pics of my Hiawatha Locomotive
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(...) And what a engine it is! (...) Yep, even if it is 8 wide :) John, a really nice job of making this loco. What are you using as the driver wheels though? It looks right nice as far as a loco goes, even if it is bigger than my creations (such as (...) (24 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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I having been working on and off on my 8 wide Hiawatha loco since last winter and have finally finished it:-) It is an Atlantic 4-4-2, the original engine to have pulled Milwaukee Road's famed Hiawatha train which ran between Minneapolis, Minnesota (...) (24 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build) !
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(...) TBurger (24 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Ohio?!! According to the LUGNET LTC map, that would put you in the boundaries of the GMLTC{:^D Good thing you're making the switch-- this here's 8 wide territory;-) -John (...) (24 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) I was just standing there, coupling some cars together and it 8 wide envy just came over me... maybe it was an epiphany :) Actually, there were three factors that might have won me over: a. a appreciation of how far the car overhangs the width (...) (24 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Two questions, Chris: 1. Why did playing with N scale trains induce 8 wide envy, and.. b. Why is that unfortunate? I'd say fortune and enlightenment have smiled upon you;-) -John (...) (24 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) <snipped some blah> (...) I thought of that, and have seen that construction by others. I used the Paradisa corner windows because I thought they more closely approximated the curvature in the windows I saw in the Marklin model of this train (...) (24 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(URL) has some pics I just uploaded of some N-scale models and some real ones also. Unfortunately, after playing with the N-scale ones all weekend, I may have been biten by the 8wide bug... -chris (24 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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