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Re: My opinion on drivers...
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Mon, 4 Nov 2002 04:06:48 GMT
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> 56K...sucks, don't it? Thanks Kevin for posting the pics, interesting
> solutions with both.
I got unplugged ~1 year ago, from cable-phone. It sucks. (moved too far out
for ADSL/cable, so phone it is)
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> Umm...fluting? All the side rods I know of are flat, with the lip on the
> edge (like a wrench). Is there another kind, exclusive to euro prototypes,
> perhaps?
No, nearly _all_ that I could quickly check (NYC J2, Niagara, Pensy K4, U2
SAR25, DoG, A1, Castle) have fluted con rods. A quick glance through CN Power
showed about 1/2 of them having fluting. (including some from the 1919 merge to
form CN). Plus, if you do it right, you can have a fluted and a non fluted
side, and they can be reversable. (it shouldn't matter which end the con rod
is facing)
Think of why you use a I beam in construction- and realize that most NA locos
were putting out ~200 000 lbs of force at the piston rod...
> > I'd rather dark red (maroon) than the primary red. Just a personal thing, I
> > guess.
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> Interesting. You're the second person to suggest that, so I was beginning
> to wonder if perhaps there was another common color of driver.
Have you ever cleaned a steam loco? Lets put it this way- neither of mine have
gleaming wheels...you can tell that Caribou has white edging to the wheels- but
that's about it, behind the layer of steam oil & bits of grass that are stuck
to it. Brit doesn't have such features (save for the grass stuck on!)
That's why I'd prefer a dimmer red than a bright one-about the only colour that
I think you could represent accurately from a railway is strodly's improved
engine green (use yellow bricks, and it is a fair approximation!)
James P
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| (...) If you're saying you want maroon to simulate dirtied bright red rather than because it's a prototype, I strenuously disagree. For the most part LEGO(r) has always been about shiny clean stuff. So if the wheels are bright red, bright red is the (...) (22 years ago, 4-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) 56K...sucks, don't it? Thanks Kevin for posting the pics, interesting solutions with both. (...) I think I know what you're talking about. Like the technic plates Shaun Sullivan has on his German loco, right? I was not aware that was what the (...) (22 years ago, 3-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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