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Re: Whose Snowblower?
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 8 May 2002 04:02:40 GMT
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John@{avoidspam}TCLTC.org
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, John Neal writes:
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> > And: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=2822
> > :-)
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> Well, ya, but the less said about that one, the better. (it just goes to
> your head, J2, it just goes to your head...)
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> Seriously that one is nice because it's closer to the proper length... it
> actually has two trucks. I've not seen a one truck rotary in US practice
> (that does NOT mean it doesn't exist).
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> Did y'all know that some early rotaries had tenders? Yes, because they were
> steam powered and needed enough fuel to actually do some good.
Actually, I was a little hesitant to even offer that one up. I built it 4
years ago, modeling from a USA Trains catalog, and it's not very good
(although at the time I thought it was the cat's meow;-) That is basically an
example of a really early one where they just slapped the rotary blades onto a
box car. I didn't even know better back then than not to create gif from a
scanned photo rather than a jpeg:-/
I am planning on building another as operated by the Milwaukee Road. I have
some great reference material, but many coals in the fire and the plow
unfortunately is down the list a-ways....
-John
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> ++Lar
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| (...) I'm positively amazed: really 4 years old (from the stone age of Lego modelling)? And I have to disagree: it is a very good model. I really like it and it looks perfectly like the "rotary" that has been in those years in the "Maerklin" (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Well, ya, but the less said about that one, the better. (it just goes to your head, J2, it just goes to your head...) Seriously that one is nice because it's closer to the proper length... it actually has two trucks. I've not seen a one truck (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-02, to lugnet.trains)
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