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Re: New MOC:TGV in Orange
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Mon, 7 Jun 1999 17:26:23 GMT
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They named a train after my home town? Wow.
Does "grande vitesse" imply anything in French other than "very fast"? If
it doesn't, I think Grand Rapids should get a refund on The Calder.
Steve
See
<http://www.artnetweb.com/sculpctr/isctest/documents/scmag98/calder/sm-caldr.htm>
for more on Calder. Maybe they'll someday learn what "hyperlink document"
means.
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999 18:34:01 GMT, "James Mathis" <jmathis@arctic.nmt.edu>
wrote:
> Since the Halloween buckets came out last year, I have wanted to build
> something modeled in orange.
>
> Several of us seem to be on the same page these days to model passenger trains,
> specifically TGVs! :-) This is excellent.
> I'm am enjoying seeing all the great work.
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> Orange...TGV...
> I've put up on my web site my attempt to model the French SNCF TGV PSE in its
> orange, black, and white colors.
>
> It's only four cars long: two engine units and two simple passenger cars.
> Each of the cars is coupled by means of LEGO yellow rubber bands, which allows
> all four cars to be close-coupled.
> The two passenger cars, at their union, share a common two axle bogie. The
> bogie can pivot independently of either passenger car. This shared bogie also
> free-floats between the two cars with in-line translation on tiled "tongues"
> that fit into slots in both passenger cars.
>
> Pictures are worth more than my feeble words. See this model of the TGV PSE in
> orange at:
> http://www.ee.nmt.edu/~jmathis/legopage.html
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> Thanks for looking.
> later,
> James Mathis
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| James, you are to be commended!! Bravo, if Lego would only make decent sets such as yours... Carrie (...) trains, (...) allows (...) also (...) in (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| Since the Halloween buckets came out last year, I have wanted to build something modeled in orange. Several of us seem to be on the same page these days to model passenger trains, specifically TGVs! :-) This is excellent. I'm am enjoying seeing all (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.trains)
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