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Meet "BOB" the Passenger Train
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 30 Apr 1999 22:01:55 GMT
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I have finally had some time to build with LEGO.
This time I've found a
friend, and his name is BOB, oder: "Die
Bayerische Oberlandbahn".
BOB is a German passenger train. A friend of
mine recently traveled to
Germany and returned with a brochure about
BOB.
I have attempted to model BOB with LEGO.
BOB feature set:
- three cars: one motor unit, one middle passenger
car, and opposite end
control unit
- middle car has no wheel sets: protruding tabs
from middle car insert
into tiled ports on each end control car
- car coupling: no gaps between cars on straight-
aways. no magnets. uses
rubber bands ala Steve Barile's very cool EP2
Electric locomotive. see
http://www.pnltc.org/Gal_engines.htm
- color scheme: white, blue, red, black, and gray
- roofs easily remove for access to passenger and
driver compartments
- uses LOTS of 1/4 top-curved bricks in gray and
some in red and white
- needs more blue 45 degree inverse slopes (20 of
'em!) Anyone? ;-)
- steep angle control car front and rear windows
Please visit images of the real BOB, and my
LEGO model via:
http://www.ee.nmt.edu/~jmathis/legopage.html
later,
James Mathis
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Message has 6 Replies:
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| (...) This looks great! Even TLG could do a set like this for cheap, and they should. This would even be cool in a monorail version. Now you've got me thinking about articulated cars again :) -Tom McD. (25 years ago, 30-Apr-99, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Meet "BOB" the Passenger Train
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| Very nice. The middle car looks great, very efficient use of windows. Very attractive! As, someone else already noted...LEGO should be desinging sets that look this nice! They would not be able to keep this model on the shelves. Thanks James, Chris (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-99, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Meet "BOB" the Passenger Train
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| James, Nice train, I like it! I think I'll make one for my next show. Maybe I will use the parts from that new thing the TLG calls the Railway Express(4561). It has a lot of those 4x3 clear wall part that would make nice windows for this kind of (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-99, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Meet "BOB" the Passenger Train
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| (...) Wow. Double Wow. I finally got the chance to visit your page and I'm just amazed at the incredible amount of workmanship an imagination that went into this train. Anyone familiar with the actual train will be able to easily recognize it as (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-99, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Meet "BOB" the Passenger Train
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| This is a great train. Well designed and looks realistic. Another time where James has pushed LEGO to it's limits. Why is one coach 1/3 of a brick higher than the rest of the train? Why did you decide not to have wheels in the centre? (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| Oh my James, you've done it again. Another masterpiece! I think you did an excellent job of modeling BOB. Lots of detail to look at. Sounds like good playability too. :-) Tom (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.trains)
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