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Re: spyshot of my next MOC
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 17 Jan 2005 00:02:30 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Samarth Moray wrote:
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Ah, I see you have gone public:-)
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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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This is very interesting info, Samarth. I’m actually curious-- what is the
actual gauge of W? The reason I ask is kind of ironic. Because the trucks on
the WDM-1 are so wide in comparison to the engine chassis, it makes the engine
look narrow to me-- closely resembling most 6 wide LEGO trains (the irony is
that you have constructed it 8 wide:-)
LEGO track is actually a wide gauge for 8 wide; it is about the perfect gauge
(standard 4’ 8.5”) for 10 wide.
As I told you privately, I’ll say publically: nice work and attention to
details. You have really captured the spirit of the proto!
JOHN
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| (...) IIRC, it's 5 ft 6" or a little more. I found the page I was looking for, with reference to the guage, here it is: (URL) (...) This is interesting. I'm not good (read horrible) at math, would you mind telling me what the feet-to-stud (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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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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