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| | | Hi! My version of an eight wide Santa Fe is online (URL) engines section. My Santa Fe on brickshelf: (URL) Meier "Rollingbricks" (23 years ago, 10-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: Santa Fe 8 wide —Mattias Martensson
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| | | | | Hi Dirk Congratulation to an impressive 8-wide version of the F7 Diesel. The nose and the front window are the difficult parts to model - you have succeded very well. I wish you could explain how the front windows (which are standard train windows I (...) (23 years ago, 4-May-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | Re: Santa Fe 8 wide —Reinhard "Ben" Beneke
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| | | | | | (...) Dear Mattias! I have seen the half built frond end of that engine at our FGLTC Lego meeting in Mülheim. Dirk has used the 2x4x3 sloped window frames from Lego Basic. In result he had to attach them only rotated in 1 direction (while it would (...) (23 years ago, 4-May-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: Santa Fe 8 wide —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) Very nice, Dirk! That window arrangment reminds me of a Baldwin "babyface". (URL) (that first pic is a Centipede but the cabwork is the same for the babyface...). I had trouble finding other pics but the babyface got its nickname because it (...) (23 years ago, 4-May-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Santa Fe 8 wide —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | Here's a better picture of a centipede which shows the strong cab window resemblance, at least to me: (URL) out all those wheels. Centipedes never wore warbonnet I don't think, Baldwin seems to have better penetration among eastern roads. Now if we (...) (23 years ago, 4-May-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Santa Fe 8 wide —John Neal
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| | | | | (...) perhaps if he did the same idea with older 2x4 classic windows? (...) lol Ross had started a shark nose about 3 years ago using those gray inverted boat bases: (URL) , but he quickly tired of the project. Perhaps because the element locked (...) (23 years ago, 4-May-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Santa Fe 8 wide —Harvey Henkelman
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| | | | For all you potential railfans out there, the Baldwin Centipede was purchased by only three railroads. Owners were Pennsy, Seaboard Air Line, and NdeM (National Railways of Mexico) UP had considered an order, but unfortunately declined. Interesting (...) (23 years ago, 4-May-02, to lugnet.trains)
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