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Re: Santa Fe El Capitan Hi-Level
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Thu, 23 Dec 2004 03:40:55 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, James Mathis wrote:
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Happy Holidays to everyone!
For several months I’ve been working on a new train construction book based
on the Santa Fe El Capitan Hi-Level set from 1956.
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I’ve tried to build into these hi-level cars a degree of detail on par with
the Super Chief cars: lift-off roof, lift-out upper level seats, spiral
stairs, kitchen stoves, and a dumb-waiter (elavator for the food service).
In some ways I’ve tired of pushing toward another construction book,
page-count, layout, print-publishing. And, in other ways I feel a bit
distracted from simply enjoying this hobby. To this end, I would like to
introduce this El Capitan Hi-Level design immediately and (hopefully)
conveniently via this crude
You Can Build it! Hi-Level El Capitan web-page generated by PowerPoint (I’m
no webmaster).
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And, thank you for checking out this El Capitan Hi-Level set design, I hope
you enjoy it-- if you should wish to build it and can find the pieces
necessary to build it!
later,
James Mathis
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James,
These look great. I’d love to be able to build the whole consist. I was
curious if you were planning to release the MPD files? I find these come in
handy for trying to figure out what parts I don’t have via Peeron. For example
I would upload a limited set list to Peeron with just the Santa Fe sets that I
own and then I would do Peeron’s “build a MOC with your sets” thing with your
MPD file. It would then tell me immediately what additional parts I need beyond
what I already have in my Santa Fe sets. Not sure if anyone else does it this
way. I used this approach to build your Santa Fe B-Unit. I setup my inventory
to just be two 10020 sets and then I used your MPD to figure out what additional
parts I’d need to make my own “B-Unit Kit” (later obtained via Bricklink
purchases).
Thanks for sharing these creations and the detailed presentation for building
them. If I knew I had the parts I would already be building these as we speak.
They look really cool. I was just thinking that I hadn’t notice you posting any
new MOCs lately. I was hoping your absence meant you were working on another
batch of official sets to be released by TLC. Maybe freight cars for the BNSF
or something. Now I see it was this project which is just as cool but, alas, a
bit harder for me to have for my own.
Curious about the bufferless trucks. Is there a reason that you didn’t go with
them completely? Do you like the ones with the buffers better? Are there
running problems with the bufferless ones? It looks like the cars would have
slightly less space between them which I suspect would look more prototypical
but may have issues in the tight LEGO curves.
Thanks!
Paul D’Urbano
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: Santa Fe El Capitan Hi-Level
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| (...) SNIPPY Hi Paul, I've been having some very good results using slack action coupling using technic 1 x x plates which are used in car axles. By using multiples of them, you can join the cars so close together that they actually touch- on (...) (20 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | Re: Santa Fe El Capitan Hi-Level
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| (...) Wow! That's a really good way to approach getting the parts you need. The part acquisition has always troubled me. I want people to have as easy a time building the model as possible, and making an MPD file available to assist this process (...) (20 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Santa Fe El Capitan Hi-Level
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| Happy Holidays to everyone! For several months I've been working on a new train construction book based on the Santa Fe El Capitan Hi-Level set from 1956. Please check out (URL) Brian Clough's Santa Fe El Capitan Hi-Level page> and his (URL) of the (...) (20 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX) !!
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