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| Howdy y'all! My latest, and, IMO, greatest engine has finally been photographed. It's a Níagara-class 4-8-4 dual service engine, owned by the Mexican National Railways. There's prototype pics at the bottom. On the details side, there are (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.announce.moc) !
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| Hi Stefan, big steamers in 8-wide+ just rocks! Your MOC looks massive and great. And, LTC, please give us black, white, grey and red large spoked trainwheels! We need them. The work-around with the Model Team Wheels is ok, but a real trainwheel (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Hi Stefan! Holger's right, I love seeing big steam engine MOCs! This looks great - some of the features I really dig are: (1) the boiler steps are a nice touch (2) working linkages - yay! (3) I really like some of the details you included on (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Start planning to come west, and watch our show schedule! We have some exciting stuff coming up (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Tell me about it... (...) With the handrails it comes out to effectively 10-wide. (...) I like the use of SNOT for the boiler on that. Very nice. Thanks for the kind words! -Stefan- (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Pretty good, considering the size. Despite being double-motored, it still seems to have a weak drawbar pull. If both motors were under the boiler, it'd probably be better. (...) I hadn't noticed the discrepancy in the cab length until you (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.trains)
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