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Re: Pics: JAC Bethgon Coalporter
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lugnet.trains
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Sun, 15 Apr 2001 00:20:46 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, John Neal writes:
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> Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > > 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).
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> Thanks, Lar. (Actually, to answer JP, this model would be impossible 6 wide
> because of the width of the half cylinders).
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).
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> > I think we should let the whole 6-8 thing drop.
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> Amen to that-- except that my Coalporter is......9 WIDE! {:^D (count'em;-)
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> -John
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> > 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.
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> > ++Lar
Personaly i don't really care, as long as it stays on the rails. I'd like
to go to 8 wide, but the narrowness of the track space in my town will only
allow 6. Although I'm playing on making an 8 wide showcar (maybe a few:
boxcar, graincar...) for my lego railroad, to bring to shows, that require
it to be 8.
Josh
(anyone ever thought of making a woodchip car? It's simple... ;))
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| (...) Why? (...) But then you miss the beauty of the model! The proto actually employs a double tub floor design, which "increases coal hauling capacity by up to 21 tons per car over traditional flat bottomed gondolas" (from their web site). That (...) (24 years ago, 15-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Pics: JAC Bethgon Coalporter
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| (...) Thanks, Lar. (Actually, to answer JP, this model would be impossible 6 wide because of the width of the half cylinders). (...) Amen to that-- except that my Coalporter is......9 WIDE! {:^D (count'em;-) -John (...) (24 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)
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