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----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Masi" <cmasi@cmasi.chem.tulane.edu> Newsgroups: lugnet.trains Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 1:53 PM Subject: Re: New train MOCs (...) When (...) that (...) that (...) that (...) nope. and I hope I (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi All, I rebuilt a shelf that use to be in my old house to fit nicely in my new office at work. Every night I store the trains in a locked drawer. I would hate to loose one of these guys! The shelf servers as a semi-wall and a great conversational (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Wow, weird. I reread my message, and I hope you didn't think I was challenging you. When you said that they like the high hood design I did not know that you meant that they liked the high hood design for no other reason than they wanted it that (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Thanks Ben, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke <r.beneke@tu-bs.de> wrote in message news:Fy85EJ.M2t@lugnet.com... (...) 70ies. (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Very nice steam engine. I must get some of those wheels. "Reinhard "Ben" Beneke" <r.beneke@tu-bs.de> wrote in message news:Fy85qx.H1@lugnet.com... (...) one (...) under (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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"Christopher Masi" <cmasi@cmasi.chem.tulane.edu> wrote in message news:397D1BA5.385EED...ane.edu... (...) was (...) wrong (...) Southern Railway (among a few others in North America) prefered to run their diesels "long hood forward" for safety, (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) it (...) Hi John, I'm fine, although yesterday was the last day of my summer hollidays... Since I do own much more 12V stuff than 9V (especially track), I will let this engine be a 12V version. But I really think about painting a 9V motor in (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) How about 8 thick-n-wide... :) It does sound a bit funny in German tho' Interpret well, Andreas Stabno (URL) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) My understanding of it is that if the engine has both Dynamic Brakes and a Steam heater, that problems with space resulted, so you ended up with a high nose. I also think that this is less true in the more modern engines, which usually have (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I do not know about the EMD GP38 or the SD40-2, but usually the high nose was for generating steam for passneger trains. I am sure if I have this info wrong I'll be corrected, but I think I am right. Chris (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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