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(...) Nice for USTrash :). But, to answer your question, yes a 3 Axle truck will clear a corner, I had them under my dinner car for a while, and they will corner if you have the axles right in a row. James P (24 years ago, 24-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Nice for USTrash :). But, to answer your question, yes a 3 Axle truck will clear a corner, I had them under my dinner car for a while, and they will corner if you have the axles right in a row. James P (24 years ago, 24-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Yep, that clears it up. You think the low slopes (the 4x3x1, 2x3x1, or 1x3x1) would make a better nose. I thought you meant the 2x2x2 steep slopes. Thanks, Chris (...) (24 years ago, 24-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yeah, it does look like a long engine in one of the pics. I actually have to fix the front coupler, it swings out too far on the curves and derails the cars when backing up. Now we have enough horsepower to pull all those heavy cars Tom is (...) (24 years ago, 24-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) On the front of the engine where there currently is a 4x4 yellow plate and a 2x4 yellow low slope peak brick. I used this to represent the pointed front of the engine. Some other people have used 2x4 slope bricks to represent the point. I (...) (24 years ago, 24-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(URL) was the first result returned with (URL) ) -chris (...) (24 years ago, 24-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Christopher Tracey wrote in message <392B4DAB.6F264949@e...nk.org>... (...) I did use the 45 degree slopes, I know the angle isn't perfect, but it still gave a good look for the size of the engine. I built the engines on the long red train plates. (...) (24 years ago, 24-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I actually like the black roof in the Rheingold cars, it's a good contrast to the white and blue colourscheme. IMHO overall the Rheingold Express coaches looks _very_ good (neat little touches like the destination plaques etc., effective round (...) (24 years ago, 24-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hi Frank! I love the small classic passenger cars in white blue. In fact I was planning my Rheingold Express in that colour scheme, but I had to use a black roof at last, since I found no sloped corner bricks in grey. And the shape of a round (...) (24 years ago, 24-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Just cool! I really like it. Regards, Ben (24 years ago, 24-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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