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Re: TSRR #500 and the Texas State Railroad Project
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.general
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Fri, 5 Jan 2007 21:01:46 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, John Neal wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, Anthony Sava wrote:
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As I said, she’s not finished. I want to swap out the cab roof with curved
slopes, and I want to put some train-roof slopes on the front of the boiler
to sink those jumper plates. Plus there are a lot of color issues that need
to be fixed.
Anyway, if you’ve made it this far, thanks for reading! I hope you like
what you see.
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Hey, Tony-
This is a smart looking engine. What I like best about it is that you’ve
nailed the proportions very well-- this is the most important design
consideration when building a prototype IMO. One thing I saw that you might
want to consider altering, although to the naked eye it looks perfectly fine:
the cabin of the proto isn’t flush with the bottom of the tender as yours is;
it sits pronouncedly higher. It might be too involved to rework, but maybe
when you are tinkering around with all of Ben’s suggestions, it might be
worth a looksee:-)
I look forward to progress pics!
JOHN
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Thanks, I’m glad you like it! I did a lot of planning and surfing the web for
pictures. This is the most un-photographed locomotives the TSRR has, but I was
FINALLY able to get a profile shot of it so I could do some serious layout
planning. I took some liberties, I’m afraid, in lengths here or there to make
designing and track operation easier.
As for the cab vs tender, if I take Ben’s suggestion of changing the tender’s
base color to green, it’ll drop the overall look of it down a plate. The tender
is actually one plate lower than the cab, but yeah, it’s not the same as the
original. I’m afraid that’s a result of me using LEGO’s train wheels versus
BBB’s, LEGO’s wheels have that taller-than-necessary housing. I could also
raise the cab’s floor up a plate, but I’m a little concerned about fitting an
engineer and fireman in there. I suppose I could always just have the two
sitting.
I’ll be sure to post finished pics when I’m finally able to afford to get that
far. I’m really looking forward to being able to put on the TSRR logo (I hope
they don’t mind) and locomotive numbers. In the meantime, I do have four other
locos to consider...
Thanks for the reply!
--Anthony
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