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Re: Center Beam lumber car
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 5 Nov 2001 14:51:06 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Steve Barile writes:
> By standing on the shoulders of giants I created a Center Beam lumber car.
Very nice, Steve. Sorry I didn't respond sooner-- reading LUGNet through the
web interface is still new to me and I end up missing this thread:-/
It reminds me of a design Conan and J-1 built a few years ago. I'm not aware of
any decent pics of it, but here is a glimpse of it in blue (they also made a
yellow one):
http://www.gmltc.org/gallery_show_detail.asp?id=104
As you can see, they used the arches studs up. Both designs say "center beam
car" very well! At 7 studs, you edge closer to the dark side>;-D
I must, however, scold you for going through so much effort at realism on your
car and then go and put <shudder> *buffers* on it! 5 lashes with a section of
turnout track! ;-)
-John
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| That looks 6 wide??? Whas up? :) JohnG, Conan(like he'll answer ;P ) Was the center beam held in by 1/2 offset plates on the bottom oriented side-to-side and 1/2 offset plates on the top end-to-end; studs into plate tubes? SteveB (...) (23 years ago, 5-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| By standing on the shoulders of giants I created a Center Beam lumber car. Clearly Jake McKee and James Mathis came up with the oval opening that inspired me to build this model. Some of the obstacles left to solve was, creating and mounting the (...) (23 years ago, 3-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains)
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