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Re: Pics: JAC Bethgon Coalporter
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lugnet.trains
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Sat, 14 Apr 2001 23:41:53 GMT
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johnneal@uswest.net/Spamcake/
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, James Powell writes:
> > In lugnet.trains, John Neal writes:
> > > Although I built this MOC last year, I never got around to posting pics
> > > of it. It is a model of a Johnstown America Corporation's Bethgon
> > > Coalporter, a rotary dump hopper.
> >
> > If it was in 6 wide, it'd be a great model :)
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> 6 wide, 8 wide, who cares. It's a great model, period (I've seen it in the
> flesh, John brought it to the train summit).
Thanks, Lar. (Actually, to answer JP, this model would be impossible 6 wide
because of the width of the half cylinders).
> I think we should let the whole 6-8 thing drop.
Amen to that-- except that my Coalporter is......9 WIDE! {:^D (count'em;-)
-John
> It's just as bad to rag on
> someone for making 8 as it is to rag on someone for making 6. Models are
> what they are. People shouldn't feel pressure to conform unless they want to.
>
>
> ++Lar
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| (...) Actully you probly could eliminate the ribs, make it 6 wide, and use the 2x4 curved brick thingys with the 1x4 plate... then you'd have a simple to make coal car (add the ribs for some detail). (...) Personaly i don't really care, as long as (...) (24 years ago, 15-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Pics: JAC Bethgon Coalporter
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| (...) 6 wide, 8 wide, who cares. It's a great model, period (I've seen it in the flesh, John brought it to the train summit). I think we should let the whole 6-8 thing drop. It's just as bad to rag on someone for making 8 as it is to rag on someone (...) (24 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)
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