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Re: A castle fan's Train plan
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:38:33 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Anthony Sava wrote:
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So would anyone be so kind as to describe or give LEGO examples of what a
typical undercarriage of a (steam era) passenger car looks like? Has anyone
attempted the built-in stairs that descend below the train base?
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Anthony-
Here are a couple of styles of built in stairs in train cars I have built. I’m
not the first to do any of these, but they can work well, especially the one in
the passenger car:
There several other creative methods that have been used for built in stairs,
including recessing stairs into the base of the train (by not using a train
baseplate), building wider so the bogies don’t hit the stairs on corners, or
inseting the bogies from the ends of the cars. Insetting from the ends of the
cars is probably most prototypcial, but it requires prototypcially long
passenger cars to still look good in Lego and long cars lead to problems on
short radius track.
-Matt :)
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| (...) Here's my suggestion for stairs. Black or grey these: (URL) SNOT'ed so the open top points out. Either a single vertical row creating an L, or horizonatal pairs for a shape. Remember that other than photos and show-n-tells, few people are (...) (19 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| I never thought I'd have to ask this question, but hey details are details, right? Is it common for there to be very little between the bogies underneath a passenger wagon? I've been studying the Lionel toy version of the Polar Express, and thats (...) (19 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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