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| | | I'm starting work on some 8-wides now, but I've built a few 6 wide containers. I'm interested how other people build containers for 8-wides? For all of my trains I've decided to count 1 stud as 2 feet to make train cars shorter (only used on (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: 8-wides coming around soon —Christopher Masi
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| | | | | (...) My containers are pretty big. The 40' long containers are 32 studs long (1 stud = 1.25 ft), 6 studs wide, and 5 bricks and 2 plates tall. I make my containers a little shorter than my truck trailers. My 40' truck trailer is 32 studs long, 6 (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | Re: 8-wides coming around soon —Josh Baakko
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| | | | | | (...) Not sure... I thought it was longer, ... But anyways, if i build a 50 foot boxcar I'll go with a longer mesurement. My major problem is the containers & the huge cars 7 locos (SD90MAC & 89' auto haulers). I'd like to build the containers the (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | Re: 8-wides coming around soon —Christopher Masi
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| | | | | | (...) snip all my previous comments (...) Yeah, those long cars are going to be a problem. I want to build an autorack,[1] and like you said, they are 89'. By my scale that would be 71 studs (gulp).I'll have to scale that down a bit (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | Re: 8-wides coming around soon —Josh Baakko
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| | | | | | <snip> (...) Yeah I'll be starting soon, I like that 70 stud Idea, and the container cars are close to the length of a SD40-2. The well is 48' on most mordern well cars (In the USA). I figure 12-14 studs for a 20' container. Josh (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | Re: 8-wides coming around soon —Christopher Masi
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| | | | | | (...) <snip> (...) My 20 footers are 16 studs, so 12-14 would be good...of course I would lean towards the 14 side ;) I made my wells just big enough to fit my 40' (32 stud) containers so I cheated and made my cars a bit shorter than they should be. (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | Re: 8-wides coming around soon —Josh Baakko
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| | | | | | (...) Well the older well cars have 40' wells. Josh P.S. I promise you will hear more about my SD90MAC soon, and I may be using Chris's 3 axle truck design. (23 years ago, 7-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | RE: 8-wides coming around soon —Bram Lambrecht
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| | | | | (...) My latest truck trailer was 8x50 studs x9 bricks :) (URL) Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu (URL) (23 years ago, 5-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: 8-wides coming around soon —Holger Matthes
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| | | | Hi Josh, René, the webmaster of (URL) build a container train for our Meeting in Braunschweig just after Christmas 2000. His train is 8-wide and the containers are build in SNOT-technique using the white Ninja-Wall elements. See pictures at: (URL) (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains)
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