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Re: New MOC: 4-8-4 Northern
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lugnet.trains
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Sun, 4 Jan 2004 19:58:20 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Shaun Sullivan wrote:
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Hi All,
Well, after at least 8 months of on-again off-again effort, I’ve finally
finished up my 4-8-4 Northern Steam Engine:
The most amazing thing to me was the sheer size of the engine; I stayed true
to a minifig-compatible scale of a little bit more than 1 foot per stud, and
the resulting locomotive is a monstrosity!
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Aw, man. That’s really spiffy. And from experience with the Hudson, I know it
looks even better in person than it does in photographs (black being the hard to
photograph hue it is). Not to worry about the scale--the locomotive is a work
of art in itself, and just because you chose not to compress it selectively
doesn’t mean that you can’t adapt the trainworks and stations to it. Just make
sure to jack up those foundations...;)
A question, related to the one asked about the locomotive moving: It looks
roughly twice as heavy as the Hudson, so I wonder if two motors are enough to
overcome the Hudson’s problem with proximity to a regulator. I recall the
engine being too heavy for its one motor when the voltage was attenuated! Does
the Northern have the same issue? Sure, it’s a display model, but nothing was
quite so cool as seeing the Hudson actually running.
So how long did you have to tinker with this one to get it into a shape you were
happy with, and how much time was saved with your prior experience with the
Hudson?
Boy, is that ever cool. I third, or fourth, the call for Jeroen to crank out a
new poster.
best
LFB
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| (...) Hiya Lyndsay! Great to hear from you ... in answer to your question, I'm not exactly sure. I only had it set up on a relatively small loop (exactly one dining-room-table in size), so I'd suspect it will have many of the same problems when it (...) (20 years ago, 4-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | New MOC: 4-8-4 Northern
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| Hi All, Well, after at least 8 months of on-again off-again effort, I've finally finished up my 4-8-4 Northern Steam Engine: (URL) The most amazing thing to me was the sheer size of the engine; I stayed true to a minifig-compatible scale of a little (...) (20 years ago, 3-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.org.us.nelug, FTX) !!
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