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(...) Actually LEGO has offered at least one 4-wide train and that was in 1965, prior to the introduction of the track: set 323. The 1966 trainset 111 (with track) has already 6-wide plates, but the engine is 2-wide with a 4-wide cab ;-) Niels (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) front (...) the (...) well, you can only sit on that kind of inspiration for long. Here it is... the motorized version (beta .01a) Vose Inspection Car. (URL) Vose is powered by a custom fitted drag wire connected micro motor housed in the (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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What's "The Tin Men" about? Never heard of it. Tin Men (URL) a train movie but very funny all the same ... why did aluminium become cheap in the US at that time? In the 1950s. Steve (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) <grin> (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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hey thanks... i didn't want to use the snot on top, but without the top of those long wedge slopes, there was the option of making it work, or buying the parts off bricklink. In the end i'm not sure but I think that the studs only in the middle is a (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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hey Shaun, thanks for the cudos. I have to say that I've been wanting to build train for real ever since seeing the article where lego gave you props for that awsome steamer you made. So know that you had a great hand in the inspiration of this MOC. (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yep--Larry hit it on the head--the isolated section is so there isn't one set of wheels on one polarity, and the other set of wheels on the reverse polarity-- (see if this font is really courier ;) ) ###...### Track TTTTT O O ###...### Track (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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(...) The latter I think... by having a truck long gap, the motor coasts across the gap but never shorts out from one wheel set to the other, once it hits the powered side again (even though the polarity is reversed) it just continues on. This is (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yeah, I hadn't thought about that. And I made a slight error in my observation; I kept thinking your observation was closed-end, not open end. In which case the manufacturer would be K-Line for O gauge. They have the same effect though. (...) (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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Cool inspection car! Definitely captures the look of the original, especially with the use of the curved wedges. It's hard to use those in a prototypical model, but you definitely got it. As for powering it, I don't know where you could stuff the (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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