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I am very pleased to announce the completion of my Canadian National SD40-2 Diesel engine. (URL) gallery includes comments on each page) Voted "Best Train" of the show at the Northwest BrickCon! The special features of this engine are as follows 4 (...) (22 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc) !
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(...) I can see why! (although the pedant in me requires that I point out that it ought rather to have won "Best Locomotive" or "Best Trains Themed Model" rather than Best Train (1) ) (...) Sweet! Whoa, she's a beat. Very nice! Hubba hubba. (...) (22 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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"Dean Husby" <nntp@akasa.bc.ca> wrote in message news:H3oyHF.46p@lugnet.com... (...) SD40-2 (...) have to take first place now. Well done! Bob Fay (22 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Just one short word: Impressive! And thanks for the cool navigation through your gallery: well done. Regards, Ben (22 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Very nice engine. The decals and electrical tape really add a lot. Also the use of black tissue paper, ingenous! The turning fans on top - very impressive. Great work, Jason +---...---+ Jason Spears MichLUG - (URL) Page - (URL) (22 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Really nice, Dean! A very clean design and good scaling. Also your pics are very effective and present the MOC well. The decals add so much-- I missed the reference so I'll ask here-- did you use S scale decals? My only nit (aside from the (...) (22 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Dean, I'm guessing that you are pulling the electrical power for the lights from the track (thus allowing you to turn on only the direction needed), do you have an detail shots of how the lights are mounted? Looks good, congrats on the award. jt (...) (22 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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"John" <John@TCLTC.org> wrote in message news:H3pzx6.F2B@lugnet.com... (...) SD40-2 (...) are (...) missed the (...) A combination of HO and O scale decals. The company (Microscale) doesn't make S scale in the decals I used. At times it was pretty (...) (22 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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"James J. Trobaugh" <james@ngltc.org> wrote in message news:H3q1BJ.J1z@lugnet.com... (...) Yes, pulling power from the electrical AUX connector, splitting it to the motor and the lighting system. I can get you some pics of the rear and a quick (...) (22 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Not *exactly* (the main difference would be number of fans on the top), but close enough. Even *with* the "incorrect" number of fans (which is not to say that that particular configuration could have existed with modifications, which happened (...) (22 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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"John" <John@TCLTC.org> wrote in message news:H3q8IE.Fus@lugnet.com... (...) an (...) always (...) which (...) some (...) I (...) better (...) but (...) say (...) which (...) frames (...) your (...) simply (...) arrangement (...) and (...) So what (...) (22 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) It depends. Which model? There have been dozens of models and dozens of configurations. If you really want to know, there have been published drawings of many models, but it may require purchasing back issues of Model Railroader or whatever. (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) As Lar mentioned, there isn't any definitive version (keep in mind that the GP is an evolving entity itself, so your question is *really* vague). Generally, a number following the letter indentification indicated the horse power rating; so a (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) The most fun is when you display a LEGO moc train at a train show (GATS, NMRA, Greenberg, etc...) and you have a "real" model railroader come up and identify the make/model of locomotive you built. That's when you know you did a good job! And (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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"John Gerlach" <john.gerlach@bestbu...ospam.com> wrote in message news:H3rwKK.3Ly@lugnet.com... (...) Mine (...) that (...) wheels per (...) he (...) is (...) and (...) Here's a question for you all, Should the fans be gray as they are now or BLACK (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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In lugnet.trains, John Neal writes: <snip> (...) The *only* problem with that is TLC made their 9V electric train motor with 2 axles and not 3. I have seen some pretty good MOCs that get around this issue, but none of them seem to sit right on a 6 (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Silly answer: Try it both ways, and see what looks best! Serious answer: I think we're really modeling the fan housing, not the fan itself. Usually, it is the same color as the top of the locomotive. So for your CN, black would probably look (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) That's certainly true, and I want to point out that for my 40 class, I used the round, printed tile from the Millennium Falcon set to achieve that grilled look (light gray). -Harvey (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) BTW, wait until you see Ross' latest-- a BN GP50... it literary astounded me when he showed it to me for the first time. Possibly the finest diesel loco I've ever seen modeled in LEGO. When he finishes putting on the final touches, I'll take (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I don't think it will ever come, and I hope it never comes, and here's why: To design a 6 wheeled truck, you need to make the spacing between the wheels pretty short in order for the truck to negotiate the tight LEGO track curves, a la the 12 (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) If it was anyone else posting the above I'd let it go.. or just post a "yep, well said" because most of the points are valid. BUT, since apparently J2 is identifying himself as a nitpicker, I have to point out that there is almost certainly a (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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With my SD40-2 (Rio Grande) I kind of took the middle road and put 6 wheels in the back and used the 4 wheel train motor in the front. I know it's not exact, but we do have to work with in the limits of LEGO parts. I did try match the fans and side (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) You're referring to the Seaboard Air Line ALCO RSC2's which were retrucked from A1A-A1A to BB, I believe the Milwaukee Road did the same... (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) trucks for both the front an back and putting the motors on the first car behind the engines to push? If you didn't I was wondering why. If you did were there problems you encountered with the pushing. Also did the 3 axel trucks have problems (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Eric, That funny you asked that because I am currently working on some Rio Grande livestock cars to do just that. I'll let you know how it works out. As far as trouble with 3 axles, they work fine in the turns. I don't have any space between them, (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) GMD1's. (URL) at least some GP's and SD's have also changed over...most likely SD's to GP's. There isn't _that_ much of an advantage of such a change though, because a 6 axle loco can be used for the most part interchangeably with a 4 axle (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Interesting challenge. I would be willing to bet that there isn't an example for the reasons you stated and others. It would certainly *look* odd, with large gaps from truck to steps and so on. Let's bet lunch on it and keep an eye out for (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I've seen weirder... A Henschel prototype built in the late seventies was converted from Co'Co' (2 bogies, 3 axles each. 3 motors/bogie) for Dutch Railways into the type 3'1A1' (that's two bogies with 3 axles each. Only one motor, driving the (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Actually the Hiawathas were 4-4-2 Atlantic types, so John wasn't that far off... (URL) (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) *Actually*, the Hiawatha was initially pulled by streamlined Atlantics (numbers 1, 2, 3, 4), but after a few years they switched to streamlined Hudsons, and the Atlantics were downgraded to branch line service. I have modeled the Atlantic: (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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"Eric Kingsley" <kingsley@nelug.org> wrote in message news:H3s3B8.1yM@lugnet.com... (...) wheels (...) not (...) to (...) SD40s (...) axel (...) did (...) One word pretty much. POWER. I need juice for my lights and fans. Also I can do a trick with (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Ahem! Well it's a good thing we don't have any *real* rivet counters here. :-) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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That Atlantic is incredible, never saw it before until now...-Harvey (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thanks, Harvey. Those pictures were taken a few years ago with a video camera that captures stills, so the quality isn't so good. It's a delicate design that still needs improving for smoother running; I have actually made some upgrades and (...) (22 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) There is a site that has pictures of various GP40's here: (URL) of info, pictures, etc of SD's, GP's, etc. Enjoy. Play well. Tim Strutt (22 years ago, 15-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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