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Ben's LEGO 4449 Daylight train.
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lugnet.trains
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Sat, 6 Nov 1999 06:51:48 GMT
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All,
Back to the wonderful world of trains. Here are the pictures of my latest
creation, a Southern Pacific 4449 Daylight engine with a compliment of
coaches.
The engine, a 4-8-4, has connecting rods between the drive wheels that really
move with the wheels.
Let me know what you think.
http://www.geocities.com/PicketFence/1438/daylight.htm
Ben Fleskes
PNLTC
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Message has 4 Replies:
 | | Re: Ben's LEGO 4449 Daylight train.
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| Very impressive. I especially like the design of the drive under the engine. Thanks for posting your work. -- Bob Fay rfay@we.mediaone.net The Shop (URL) Fleskes <benfleskes@msn.com> wrote in message news:FKrKEC.LG7@lugnet.com... (...) really (...) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Ben's LEGO 4449 Daylight train.
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| I'm not a big fan of steam but this looks very sweet. One question I have about the drive train, the distance between the front and back pivot points needs to be shorter when going around a curve than when you're on a tangent. How do you accomodate (...) (25 years ago, 7-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Ben's LEGO 4449 Daylight train.
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| (...) To start, great train! I love late steam locomotives but, have been frustrated trying to come up with a drive mechanism that is both reliable and prototypical in appearance. My current design uses two drive moters in an articulated set-up with (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Ben's LEGO 4449 Daylight train.
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| Hi Ben, It just occured to me that you train should be able to use switching points, right? Those wheel rest on top of the rails, so they do not stick down in between the rails, right? By the way, I tried a bunch of the links on your train site and (...) (25 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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