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Re: Santa Fe caboose
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 5 Mar 2002 00:09:55 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, David VinZant writes:
> Hey Larry I did find this one picture. It may not be as dramatic of a curve
> but it does have an arc to it.
> http://www.walthers.com/prodimage/0140/01400000005394.gif
It sure does. In fact that's the rounded end from a "pressed steel" roof.
They (the car manufacturers... Pullman Standard, American Car Foundry and
others) took big pieces of steel and put them into huge 200++ ton presses
and formed ribs and raised/lowered areas into them for strength. They
rounded the ends so that the welds that joined the roof to the sides would
be overlapped instead of butt welds (I think... that part I am hazy on).
But I'd argue that at LEGO resolution that rounded edge should be lost in
(wait for it... ) "rounding error". (crowd groans) given the size of it
compared to the size of one stud or the height of one brick.
YMMV of course but that radius is nowhere as large as a PRR "cabin car" roof
rounding.
But what the hay, it looks cool anyway.
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| (...) I'd agree that the rounded edge is too small to model, but the overall curve of the roof can still be done. I like to have (in six-wide at least) a plated roof, with the middle four studs raised by one plate. This isn't my best example of (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Hey Larry I did find this one picture. It may not be as dramatic of a curve but it does have an arc to it. (URL) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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