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It's a US-proto freight loco, folks: Well, I got the itch just to try a design study for an 8-wide US diesel locomotive. I see this type of locomotive frequently here in the high desert of central New Mexico. They're HUGE! It's only a design study (...) (23 years ago, 25-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hey look, something worth reading/looking at was posted on LUGNET today! The amount of SNOT you put into your models is incredible, James. I was wondering how structurally sound your designs are, however. Do some parts tend to fall off if (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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Wow, this is eerily accurate! If anyone needs any digital photos of the real thing, I live literally one block from the Santa Fe railyard (which offers train tours to Lamy). Jacob (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) In this Sante Fe loco, the windows are really loosely installed . I've forced a "V" wedge onto the windows, and it's quite fragile about the the side windows, as well. The side windows could be reinforced quite easily if I took more time to do (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) pardon my ignorace, but what is SNOT? i assume we're not talking about nose jelly. (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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SNOT = Studs Not On Top (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) You mean you see Santa Fe locos???? I think they are the most beautiful ones....I remember,from my childhood,some pics of those huge,RED,beautiful locos,on my first illutrated books...it was in the 70s....at that times,in Italy,locos were (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi James, thanks for sharing your design ideas! Looks great, except the tiny little 12V wheels - as Gianluca already said. Such a huge loco needs 9V wheels and the motors will go underneath the cars! Your Santa Fe loco will be a good partner for my (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I do... I've seen some of JM's models in the flesh and they do get firmer as he goes through iterations but some of his early protos are fragile. But then so are some of mine. I don't necessarily design for highest durability, that takes a (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) The best that I see are pictures found in either books or on the web. ;-) But, yes, I can see them in real-life traveling the tracks near where I live. I live 2.3 hours away from the city of Sante Fe, New Mexico, USA. The locos of this style (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yes. (...) Same place. I have only intended this Sante Fe to be a design study for the nose/cab only for this locomotive. I will likely not finish this model. (...) That was fun to figure out . :-) Amazing how well engineered LEGO element (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Of course. I don't succeed in highest durability either. But I usually get bored with a model too soon to make revisions to the design. Detail is always the first priority. On my models, the mirrors also fall off, as do other parts, but (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Great Northern Orange/ Hunter Green. The merger is around 10 years old now, but the Red & Silver SF units are still around, alot with BNSF on them now. (...) <snip> I agree... Josh (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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"James Mathis" <thakius@nmt.edu> wrote in message news:GDyBux.9H8@lugnet.com... (...) desert (...) live. (...) there (...) all. (...) childhood,some (...) was in (...) sh*t (...) [ ... snipped ... ] Someone will know more than I do but yes, (...) (23 years ago, 27-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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