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Re: New Shorter Metrorail
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lugnet.trains
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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:
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=117337
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=117336
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> Here's the original, full length version:
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=95669
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=5707
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> A nice side benefit is that by converting two long cars into
> short cars, I had enough spare parts for a third short car!
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> 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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