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Re: French BB63000 series diesel locomotives
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Date: 
Thu, 3 Mar 2005 02:00:13 GMT
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Didier Enjary wrote:
                 Hi,


The BB 63000 series diesel locomotives are famous in France. They have existed
since 1953 and more than 800 have been constructed. More than 600 are still in
use.

[snip]

http://www.6studs.com/bb463981/bb463981-eng.html

But a very popular livery is "Arzens livery" (Arzens a french designer) made of
brown and orange. Orange is quite a rare LEGO part color, but  Pascal finally
obtained the parts he needed:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=117364

I love his MOC so much that I've asked him for a MLCAD file.....unfortunately,
Pascal does not have any CAD skills. But, surprisingly, he has taken a series of
pictures :

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=117403

The pictures were enough for me to be able to create the MPD file for MLCAD and
building instructions that I can share with you :

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/dickydidier/BuildingInstruction/Train/BB63000/p000.jpg

After moderation : http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=119428

[snip]

Didier Enjary

Hey!

Cool engine. I am intrigued by the trucks (bogies). Are those skirts
around the trucks or are they some other kind of stucture?

Thanks for sharing,
Chris



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  Re: French BB63000 series diesel locomotives
 
(...) I'm pretty sure that the panels Pascal put both sides of the bogies are just to make the trucks look good in 8-studs size. (URL) there are no skirts or specific structure in the real engine. In my previous post, I wrote : "The motor is the 12V (...) (20 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)

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  French BB63000 series diesel locomotives
 
Hi, The BB 63000 series diesel locomotives are famous in France. They have existed since 1953 and more than 800 have been constructed. More than 600 are still in use. These locomotives have four liveries : the older one is called "green livery" (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.inst, lugnet.trains)

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