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Subject: 
Re: New Shorter Metrorail
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.trains
Date: 
Tue, 12 Feb 2002 05:50:54 GMT
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While it is disappointing to lose the prototypical appearance of three pairs of
doors on each side of a car, and the visual effect of the longest subway cars
in the world (or so), these new editions are a fair compromise between
authenticity and operability on a layout. The final touch might be some
underbody detail. And for the true sticklers, a fourth car!

Constantine

In lugnet.trains, Kevin Loch writes:
The Wamalug show last weekend saw the debut of the new shortened metrorail
car.  I deleted one of the mid sections to make the car more managable.
The new version is just uner 40 studs in length:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=117337
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=117336

Here's the original, full length version:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=95669
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=5707

A nice side benefit is that by converting two long cars into
short cars, I had enough spare parts for a third short car!

KL



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The Wamalug show last weekend saw the debut of the new shortened metrorail car. I deleted one of the mid sections to make the car more managable. The new version is just uner 40 studs in length: (URL) the original, full length version: (URL) nice (...) (23 years ago, 11-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)

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