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Re: San Diego Coaster (Custom Livery)
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 8 Jun 2005 13:34:13 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Martin Long wrote:
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Just wanted to share some photos of my recent build:
My Brickshelf Gallery:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=131461
Firstly, all credit for the design goes to James Mathis who posted the
LDraw build on his Brickshelf pages some time ago. Interestingly, James
tells me that he has never brick-built this set before so was pleased to hear
that I had done so. In fact, this may be only the second brick-built version
to date - Robert Powell being the first.
James’ original design is based on the San Diego Coaster - specifically an
EMD F59PHI with Bombardier BiLevel coaches. My colour variant is based on
the Coaster design but I chose grey/white/green as my custom livery mainly
due to parts availability and the fact that I thought my early LDraw renders
were looking rather cool :-)
The real Coaster is typically powered by one loco but I felt a five-coach
brick-built version would benefit from a second power unit. This revealed an
interesting problem which was a slight weakness in the original design of the
nose/coupler section. This has now been reworked internally to prevent the
lead engine pulling the nose section off the second unit! James has
encouraged me to share these changes and so I’ll be putting the reworked
coupler component up in my Brickshelf gallery soon.
A personal thanks to James who provided very positive feedback on my first
photos to him - and also for the great work he does for the LEGO train
community.
Martin
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Wow! That’s such a nice train and I really like the colours. Lovely work from
both Martin and James. How far/fast does the real thing travel? It looks like a
mid-speed longish distance train.
Once again, fantastic work!
Tim
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