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Re: High Speed Diesel Locomotive
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Fri, 11 Apr 2003 15:07:31 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Bob Hayes writes:
The more that I look at the box art for the new passenger train
(http://www.iltco.org/sneakpeek/boxart/?image=1), the more that I dislike
the engine.

I wonder how far "out" the nose swings beyond the edge of curved track?
Maybe not too much since the nose tapers to 2-wide?
When I first saw pictures of this new passenger train set, I thought the
loc's front canopy window was direct from Alpha Team, but I see now that it
is a slightly different taper at its base.  I will like the trans-gray/black
thin-wall windows.

Any way, since we don't have a lot of electrified track here in the US, I
have built a fast looking diesel locomotive -
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=371668 (sorry for the poor
quality image) to go with the new cars.  Yes, that is the front canopy from
a Jack Stone jet - see http://guide.lugnet.com/set/4620

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=1858

Bob, I like your loc.
What strikes me most is that the painted JS stripes and graphics don't line
up directly with standard LEGO(R) plate thickness.  I like the white
turntable(?) bases on the roof-- cool.

later,
James Mathis



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  Re: High Speed Diesel Locomotive
 
(...) The dark windows will have lots of uses. (...) When I first held the JS canopy, I thought that the strips were plate thickness and plate aligned. Only when I tried to put it together did a relize they where not. Thet were white turntable (...) (21 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)

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  High Speed Diesel Locomotive
 
The more that I look at the box art for the new passenger train ((URL) the more that I dislike the engine. Maybe it is the bird beak front, or the canopy windscreen (does it come with an ejection seat?) I just noticed that the sides are only four (...) (21 years ago, 10-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)

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