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Hi all! I think I cannot be the first one to have built it, but the amout of postings made me giving up - usually I read everything at lugnet trains but the amout of postings during the last week was too much for my free time ... Anyway: maybe you (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Ben, Nice work on the B unit, I plan on doing the same kind of thing soon. And I 2nd you on the amount of posts, I can't read them fast enough! Maybe we need a lugnet.trains.superchief newsgroup:) Build on... Robin Werner - www.gfltc.org (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Looks good to me Ben. So basicly the B-unit cost twice as much as the A-unit?! Hmmmm, how are the B-units supposed to be a good deal for the railways :) jt (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Interesting ... At BricksWest, Brad Justus said several times that B-units should have three round windows on each side. Yours has two, but it's faithful to the Lionel model you were basing it on. I wonder if the Lionel kit or Brad was wrong? (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I'm wondering about the supposed B-unit service pack. It seems like it would have a lot of parts I'd like, personally. Has anything more explicit come out on this, besides what's in Ahui's transcripts? The possibilities that surround having (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Um, they're not. It just took some stubborn railways a while to learn that. (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Bill, Check out (URL) to that article, the different number of portholes is based on the actual locomotive. FT A and B units had 4 portholes each, F3 A and B units had 3 portholes each, and F7 A units had 2 portholes, while F7 B units had 3. (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) 3 is right for most "B" units. If you want specifics, get appropriate copies of "Extra 2200 South" (IIRC, that is the correct title, the railfan's Diesel spotter mag) (...) Ya, the real ones would have doors in the nose. My F has a simulated (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Union rules. Back when, anything with a number was a loco. Since a B unit had no number, it was not a loco, hence not needing a crew... That's why you see 300F, 300A, 300 B, 300C for example on a ABBA arrangement of F units (IIRC, that was (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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