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Subject: 
Re: New Cowcatcher Design
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Sat, 20 Jul 2002 02:19:14 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Shaun Sullivan writes:

John, you can rest assured that this is just a *scale* prototype; the one used
on my new engine is significantly larger.  Although the engine started out at 8
wide (and in fact, the boiler still is 8 wide), fellow NELUGgers convinced me
that my new engine is, indeed, 10-wide.  Pictures of that are forthcoming ...

Please LMKWYT

Very clever, Shaun-- I can hardly wait for the rest of the engine!  But 10
wide???  It's bad enough to have scale drivers for 6 wide let alone 8! We
really need some drivers that are the size of the 5571 hubs IMO.  I look
forward to your solution:-)

-John



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  New Cowcatcher Design
 
Well, here she is: In working on my latest steam engine, I needed to find a cowcatcher design. After a day or two or working almost exclusively on that problem, I finally came up with something that I am happy with. I've been holding off the (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)

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