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(...) There is a prototype for EVERYTHING! Funiculars are externally powered. Yet this... (...) lighting? No way could the funicular itself be providing motive power! Fascinating. ++Lar (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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just more pics: (URL) good for studying ----- Original Message ----- From: James Mathis <thakius@nmt.edu> To: <lugnet.trains@lugnet.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 1:11 AM Subject: Re: New MOC: Funicular Preview (...) very (...) (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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"Christopher Masi" <cmasi@cmasi.chem.tulane.edu> wrote in message news:39AADF73.7988FD...ane.edu... (...) Great models! I really like the presentation of the caboose, I love the cutaway views - it gives a good impression of all the detail you (...) (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thanks (...) The inside was a lot of fun. (...) Thanks James. It is funny how far my models have come. The work that all of you do keeps me thinking about doing new things. Chris (...) (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thanks, err...yeah...they are eight wide. If you count the railings that stick out on the sides they are actually like 10 or 11 wide. Chris (...) (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Yep, I am replying to myself. I should have said this to start with, but I guess I was being cagey because I decided to go eight wide. First, going 8-wide was a very hard decision to make, and I nearly canned the attempt before it really got off the (...) (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I personally am planning on going 6 wide for containers. I guess 5 wide would be a possibility, I really won't be having doors in my containers (the windows w/shutters in the old Maersk truck would be neat to get, and with availability of (...) (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Right, I just popped the wheelsets out of the frames. I was referring that modeling two sets of rails in order to stagger the wheelsets would be difficult to model in a six wide car since there has to be four studs between the rails. Now, that (...) (24 years ago, 28-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Here's another photo of the Vevey-Mt Pelerin funicular: (URL) Mathis (...) bricks (...) (24 years ago, 28-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) help (...) The funicular we rode started in Vevey, and made stops in towns up to Mt. Pelerin. This is near Montreax on Lake Geneva. We bought some nice wine at a family owned winery when we stopped in Chardonne- chatted some with the owners as (...) (24 years ago, 28-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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