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Re: FRED- flashing rear end device
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 17 May 2007 17:48:00 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Benn Coifman wrote:
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FRED- Flashing Rear End Device
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I like this idea - it adds a nice bit of realism to modern train consists! Too
bad Lego lighting wasn’t smaller, but for what you had to work with, vool job
for sure!
And I just saw a History Channel show on trains and they said that trainmen who
were losing their jobs as cabooses were being phased out and replaced by FREDs
apparently referred to the Flashing as another famous F word to show their
displeasure... :-O
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| (...) Solution: don't put the light on the end. Put the light interior to the container, and pipe it to the end using a fiber-optic piece. The size of the flasher (about the size of a stud) would then be more correct, and it could be hidden about as (...) (18 years ago, 19-May-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | FRED- flashing rear end device
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| (URL) FRED- Flashing Rear End Device (URL) Full Gallery> (once moderated) Inspired by one of John Neil's hopper cars with an integrated FRED, I set out to build my own for the double stacks. It took me a while to actually get one of the smaller (...) (18 years ago, 17-May-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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