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Re: 8 wide Super Chief (Kjeld was right!)
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Date: 
Thu, 28 Feb 2002 03:32:10 GMT
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John wrote:
About the MOC:

Since I haven't received my 10020s yet, I wasn't able to use any of the
special parts created for it, so what you see is created from my
"pile";-)  I took some design cues from the 10020 because I wanted to
compare them, but basically I modeled from pics and schematics from
books.  I may leave this MOC intact and build another from kit-bashed
10020 parts; I haven't decided yet.  Both headlights work and there is
also a cabin light-- I'll have to take some pics in the dark to show
those off.

Looks great John!  Can you shed some more details on the windscreen
construction?

-chris



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  Re: 8 wide Super Chief (Kjeld was right!)
 
(...) Thanks, Chris. The windscreen idea came from Dan Siskind. Here is a pic from our last show of an Amtrak F45 he did: (URL) was really made possible by the advent of a new Racers piece, a red 2x4 angled plate used as a spoiler in many of the (...) (23 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)

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  8 wide Super Chief (Kjeld was right!)
 
This project came as a result of a story told by Brad Justus at BricksWest 2002. I'll explain. A while back, Brad was in Billund, and he was showing off to Kjeld the pre-production 10020. As Kjeld was "Oohing" and "Ahhing" over the model, he said to (...) (23 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains) ! 

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