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Re: Canadian National SD40-2 Diesel Engine V2
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 9 Oct 2002 16:44:59 GMT
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"John" <John@TCLTC.org> wrote in message news:H3pzx6.F2B@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.trains, Dean Husby writes:
> > I am very pleased to announce the completion of my Canadian National • SD40-2
> > Diesel engine.
> > http://www.akasa.bc.ca/tfm/trains/CNv2engine/index.html
> > (This gallery includes comments on each page)
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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?
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 harriy trying to
get just the right size. The size on the front top on the 1x2 45 degree red
slopes was an HO for the rear. There was only one and I had to pick up an
extra decal set to get the other one. :-)
> My only nit (aside from the usual 8 wide ranting;) is that you call it an • "SD"
> (for "Special Duty") and use a 4 wheel truck configuration (SDs always • have 6
> wheel trucks). You could easily call it a GP (General Purpose) which used • 4
> wheel trucks and be more accurate in that respect.
Really? Belive it or not I'm not a huge train buff. Not to the detail some
of you guys know anyway.
So a general purpose is exactly the same design just two wheel sets less? I
have a wheelset that has a floating middle wheel but found it looked better
with all motors. (It can also pull 10 cars at power level 3). I the LEGO
motors permited I would have added the third wheel.
> Either way, you've built one fine choo-choo! Congratulations on your 1st • place
> finish-- it *is* a winner:-)
Thank you, everyone, for your kind words, it was a labour of love.
Dean
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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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| | Re: Canadian National SD40-2 Diesel Engine V2
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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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