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Inspired by this loco--
http://www.railpictures.net/showphotos.php?locomotive=EMD%20SD70ACe
I made this:
Have a look at the rest of the pics and, if so inclined, let me know what you
think!
http://sparky.i989.net/ltrain.htm
Few things--I start the project with the trucks, just to see if I could get a 3
wheel truck functioning and looking reasonably decent. That took a bit,
especially throwing in the ‘will it work on corners’ issue.
After that, proceed on, thinking that I have lots of 1x2 white corrogated bricks
for the grates and vents, ‘cause I have so many 1x2 corrogated in every other
conceivable colour. So when time came for me to work out my first vent, I look
for white...
White? Hello white? Where are you?
Turns out I had all of four white 1x2 corrogated bricks.
Eh, so I faked all the vents using grill plates.
As well, I don’t have any 1x6 train ‘fence rails’ in white for the front and
back of the loco--so I used my black ones.
Oh, and the trucks on the real engine are blue, but I don’t have blue train
wheels :)
This was a fun project that took Friday night and most of Saturday. There are
many areas for improvement, and I’ll probably keep updating the loco as time and
inspiration permits. I’ll also make the identical loco in the red/black colour
combinarion that haunts the rest of my locos. But that’ll be at some future
point :)
Dave K
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