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Re: Crane Car
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.trains, lugnet.adventurers
Date: 
Sun, 26 Mar 2006 22:38:52 GMT
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In lugnet.adventurers, Elroy Davis wrote:
   While getting ready for NELUG’s upcoming train show, I was rebuilding my Adventurer’s Train. The question always comes up about how Johnny Thunder and crew unload their vehicles track-side if they are traveling through the tundra.

The answer to the question is a Steam Crane:

[snip]

   The crane can pivot 360 degrees, allowing it to reach the flatbed cars coupled on either side of it. The body of the crane is mounted on a gear rack, allowing the crane to move along the base of the car in order to reach the far sides of the flatbeds.

For transport, the boom of the crane folds in half, and the stabalizers flip up out of the way.

Hi Elroy, always great to see different LEGO cranes, and I like this one! Has got that adventurers “feel” to it - I especially like the steam greebling. All the important elements of a useful crane are there, in a slightly different way than I’ve ever seen before.

Well done!

ROSCO



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(...) Thanks. My main goal for this, other than having a working crane, was to have it fit in nicely with the rest of the train. It's a bit taller than I would have liked, but as my wife pointed out, "It's an old machine. It's supposed to be big." (...) (19 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.adventurers, FTX)

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While getting ready for (URL) NELUG's> upcoming train show, I was rebuilding my (URL) Adventurer's Train>. The question always comes up about how Johnny Thunder and crew unload their vehicles track-side if they are traveling through the tundra. The (...) (19 years ago, 26-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.adventurers, FTX) !! 

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