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Subject:	Re: Anime inspired container train for Soren Roberts containers
Newsgroups:	lugnet.trains
Date:	Thu, 30 Mar 2006 02:52:55 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Timothy Gould wrote:

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That locomotive is beautiful. Have you built it in real bricks? I may build something quite similar if the articulation works well- the wheel covers look like they might be a bit close to the grey center section but I’m not experience enough to know off hand. For a space layout, I wouldn’t even mind the overwidth body.

PS. The car’s tray design is copied straight from Soren’s tray. All I changed was the wheels. I really liked the idea of a container standard and a tray standard as the ultimate in industrial transport.

The container is nice, but seems a bit part-intensive to be buildable in quantity by many builders. At least in the Space community.

Tony Hafner
www.hafhead.com

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		Re: Anime inspired container train for Soren Roberts containers
(...) Not yet and probably never. If I'm ever going somewhere with a spacetrain layout I might build a copy but I doubt it would make the clearance. (...) That's something I'm not sure about either. I know the clearance is enough for a six-wide (...) (18 years ago, 30-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)

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		Anime inspired container train for Soren Roberts containers
Hi all, Recently Soren Roberts came up with this (URL) excellent truck> with a really nifty container format. I dug it a lot and reverse engineered it with some help from Soren for the purpose of making a train to go with it. Anyway, to cut to the (...) (18 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.space, FTX) !!

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