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Subject: 
Re: The call of the dark side... (stickers!)
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos
Date: 
Sat, 24 Mar 2001 22:54:13 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, "David Eaton" <deaton@intdata.com> writes:
Before:
http://www.suave.net/~dave/greenline/greenline101.jpg
After:
http://www.suave.net/~dave/greenline/greenline102.jpg

Wow, that REALLY makes a difference -- I love it!  (I ride the Green Line
every day to/from work.)


The real thing:
http://www.nycsubway.org/us/boston/green/mbta-green-cleveland03.jpg
http://www.nycsubway.org/us/boston/green/mbta-green-cleveland04.jpg

Wow, I don't think I've ever seen that color scheme before.  All the ones I
ride have a black center flexible area.  I was going to snap some pix for
you this past week during lunch but it rained too many days here.  I missed
a really good opportunity on Wednesday or Thursday, BTW, when there were 12
Green Line cars all lined up in a row at BU East they day of the flooding in
Kenmore square.  :-)

--Todd



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: The call of the dark side... (stickers!)
 
(...) Todd, the flexible passageways between the cars are known as diaphrams, just thought you might want to know. -Harvey I was going to snap some pix for (...) (24 years ago, 25-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
  Re: The call of the dark side... (stickers!)
 
(...) The ones with the black diaphragm are the newer units. The units in the pictures above are the original Boeing LRVs. I haven't noticed the inside of the newer units (I hadn't really even realized they had got new units until I started perusing (...) (24 years ago, 25-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)

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  The call of the dark side... (stickers!)
 
Not giving it a second thought, I went ahead and made stickers for my greenline train... but... when I went to put them on, I realised I would be violating all that was good and pure in the Legoverse by putting NON-LEGO elements in my creation! So (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains)  

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