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Re: Box Cars
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Tue, 10 Aug 1999 12:47:44 GMT
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JOHNNEAL@USWEST.ihatespamNET
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I have a few of those doors on boxcars, but not used in the sliding capacity.
Used as regular doors, they for me make good reefer doors.

--John

"Thomas P. Rafert" wrote:

I built a box car awhile back using those doors, never scanned the car
although.  I don't think I still have it together. :-(  I'm sure I wasn't the
first, but when I showed another PNLTC member he hadn't seen that door used
that way before.
There are some other pieces that slide well in those rails.  Can't think of
them of the top of my head right now, I'm at work.

Tom

In lugnet.trains, Frank Filz writes:
I haven't noticed this one yet (but someone has to have discovered it before
me), has anyone else noticed that the 3.5x4x5 rectangular doors (which hang
on the 1x1x2 brick) work in the sliding door rails? I'm going to build a box
car using these. They're a little narrow for a single door, but look nice as
a double door.

Frank



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  Re: Box Cars
 
That's how I was going to use the doors in the first place but then decided to try them in the rails. I've got to take some time to build some freight cars. Lately I've been busy building scenery and a couple of new diesels, but first I need to (...) (25 years ago, 10-Aug-99, to lugnet.trains)

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  Re: Box Cars
 
I built a box car awhile back using those doors, never scanned the car although. I don't think I still have it together. :-( I'm sure I wasn't the first, but when I showed another PNLTC member he hadn't seen that door used that way before. There are (...) (25 years ago, 10-Aug-99, to lugnet.trains)

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