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Subject: 
Re: ATSF Super Chief Project
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Tue, 1 Feb 2005 03:10:26 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke wrote:
> 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
> > 
> > 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!

Not completely mine! lots of ideas from others there.
> 
> But please let me correct you in one point: Bruno's (=legocastle's) cars are not
> 8-wide. Those are definitely 6-wide

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 there was.

> and have been running at the 1000steineland
> 2003 and 2004 without trouble due to overlength.

Cool. how far inboard are the bogie pivots? That was key for me, having them as
far in as I could.

> Of course the grey wheelsets
> are modified with a scalpel as usual...

Mine too. In fact I had some trouble photographing some cars, they kept rolling
away. So that's a good sign!



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  Re: ATSF Super Chief Project
 
(...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains)

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