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Re: ATSF Super Chief Project
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 31 Jan 2005 22:45:06 GMT
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> For the longest time I've been wanting to do up a Super Chief *proper*. The bug
> hit bad when KleineSteine posted the work of LegoCastle here:
> http://brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=81076
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> Those are 8 wide but they are long. Long is luscious. Probably too long to be
> practical. But that's been eating at me for a year, that I ought to build some
> too.
Hi Larry,
I love the trucks of your Santa Fe coaches most- in fact a very cool invention!
But please let me correct you in one point: Bruno's (=legocastle's) cars are not
8-wide. Those are definitely 6-wide and have been running at the 1000steineland
2003 and 2004 without trouble due to overlength. Of course the grey wheelsets
are modified with a scalpel as usual...
Leg Godt!
Ben
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| (...) Not completely mine! lots of ideas from others there. (...) Cool. I could never get the builder to email me so I had to guess. But at 6 wide the trucks must stick out quite a bit. I had a version copied and I just didn't like how much bulge (...) (20 years ago, 1-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| People that know me well, know that as a railfan I have been a fan of ATSF since I could spell it, almost 40 years ago. And I've been an Alco fan almost as long. When LEGO brought out 10020 I was overjoyed to see a warbonnet set, but I knew that as (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jan-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains) !!
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