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Re: spyshot of my next MOC
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lugnet.trains
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Sun, 16 Jan 2005 18:55:11 GMT
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W- broad guage, Y is metre guage, Z and N are for 2 and 2 ft 6” guages. D is
for diesel, A is for electric, and CA is AC/DC current electrics. and the
last letter is for traffic, M for mixed, P for passenger, S for
shunter/switcher and G for goods. the last number is (I think), according to
the cronological sequence of locomotive production, but more recently it has
been changed to mean the horse power of the loco. To confuse things even
further, some locos have been excluded from the new classification.
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I thought there was a pattern to it but didn’t think of the different gauges.
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One of my favourite
schemes is the one for the first indegenously built WDP-4, named
baaz (eagle)
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I saw that loco. They have tidied up the external cab design considerably over
the imported ones, now it just looks wrong with the rest of the body rather than
altogether wrong!
Tim
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Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: spyshot of my next MOC
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| (...) SNIPPY Hiya Tim! Thanks for the compliment! Yes, the gap in the striping is for the loco name. The unit in question comes from a tech-transfer with adtranz, and the first three indigenously built locos are named. I've put a 'Navjagran' decal (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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