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Re: APT version 5
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Wed, 13 Jun 2001 02:47:37 GMT
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James Mathis wrote:
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> With some excellent comments from Carbon60 and Rob Latham, I have continued
> with my APT set.
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> C-60 happened to be working on the APT; neither of us knew the other was
> working on it! He's got his great efforts accepted to the APT-P restoration
> website:
> http://www.therailwayage.co.uk/apt/APTModels.htm
> I think C-60's got the coloring down very well. In fact, I now know that my
> chosen gray roof is the wrong color! :-( It should be white. Oh, well.
> We both would like to have dark gray train windows.
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> Rob Latham is responsible for drawing the excellent images of the various
> APT configurations shown here:
> http://www.therailwayage.co.uk/apt/APTConfigurations.htm
> These are just excellent!!!
>
> Here's my v5 APT set:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=4921
> I've doubled the powercar. As C-60 pointed out the catenary is one-way
> only, so there's two in opposite directions. Also, the text should be
> "InterCityAPT". Interesting to note that the power car graphics are not
> symmetric! One side of the same powercar states "InterCityAPT" while the
> other side is the British Rail dual-arrow-track symbol.
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> Rob told me:
> "the positioning of the passenger doors (they do not have a door in each
> "corner, just diagonally opposite ones) - not something
> "that you would have noticed on photo's as the livery continues over the door.
> " on the Trailer Brake First vehicles (next to the powercar) there should be
> no windows at the innermost end."
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> I haven't followed the diagonal door prescription, as it would require
> tossing out all of one kind of train door...say toss out all the
> "right-hand" doors! I think I'll go with using the pairs and just have two
> doors per wagon at the same end of the wagon. This way I won't have to buy
> double the qty of doors bulk paks.
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> later,
> James Mathis
> PS: C-60; I hope you don't mind that I plugged your spot on the APT resto page.
Hey James,
Of course looks good,, blah blah blah, yada yada yada[1], but since this came
up in another thread and I can see them in your picture....where did you get
your train tracks? Did you modify the color of the rails? Did they come shiny?
What is the color code for the shiny rails?
Thanks,
Chris
1. Seriously, it does look great. I don't normally get all excited about virtual
models, but this is a very nice one. She'll be gorgeous if she ever makes it to ABS.
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See some of my LEGO creations at http://cmasi.chem.tulane.edu/~lego/
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| (...) <snip APT stuff> I will address 9v track shiny color in the other thread on 9v track .dat topic. (...) A creation in real ABS is in the works. Thanks to S@H bulk packs, the train windows and doors packs in blue, and a whole bunch of sluething (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| With some excellent comments from Carbon60 and Rob Latham, I have continued with my APT set. C-60 happened to be working on the APT; neither of us knew the other was working on it! He's got his great efforts accepted to the APT-P restoration (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains)
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