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Re: New MOC:TGV in Orange
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Thu, 17 Jun 1999 02:26:22 GMT
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James, you are to be commended!! Bravo, if Lego would only make decent
sets such as yours...
Carrie
In lugnet.trains, Steve Bliss writes:
> 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:
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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 the great work.
> >
> > 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
> >
> > Thanks for looking.
> > later,
> > James Mathis
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| (...) Just some new comments about the orange TGV. I have had some time to revise the shared bogie coupler between the passenger cars. This newer design has no extra pivot pieces, as the older design did. The only built-in pivot is on the bogie (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.trains)
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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 (URL) for more on Calder. Maybe they'll someday learn (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jun-99, to lugnet.trains)
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