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Subject: 
Re: New Train car MOCs!
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Fri, 10 Aug 2001 21:33:00 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, David K. Z. Harris writes:
> > Intermodal Car(s)
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=5664
> 
>  Wow! I like these a LOT! I've seen some modified cars around the SF
> Bay Area that have the raised clamping bit on the ends. While they
> don't have the angled sidewall (you used low-slope roof bricks
> for that part), I really like the look, and it puts the clamps at the
> correct height.

As promised, here is the main photo I worked off of:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=61746

I also had a series of other shots that helped, but this was the best one.

>  The design also makes good use of the shared truck between
> car bodies. But, why do you extend the weight towards the coupler
> on the end-trucks? I found that a center-of-the-truck mount seems
> to work better for mine.

Just trying to match what I saw in the photos actually. That's one of the
reasons that the uprights and the shared wheelsets are spaced like they are
too. I was trying to get as little space between them as possible, but still
allow the cars to turn thru the curves. All in the name of realism.

>  Nice job Jacob! :-)
Thanks!

Jake

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Jake McKee
AFOL
LUGNET Member #211



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(...) Bay Area that have the raised clamping bit on the ends. While they don't have the angled sidewall (you used low-slope roof bricks for that part), I really like the look, and it puts the clamps at the correct height. The design also makes good (...) (25 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)

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