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Re: Old Peter Witt Tramway from Turin
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Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:50:28 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Luca Giannitti wrote:
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Hi train friends!
I’m going to show you my last LEGO creation. This is another tramway from
Turin (Italy), my hometown, but this tramway is an historic car. It was
designed with the ideas of Peter Witt and it was built in the 1932-33 by
FIAT.
Peter Witt was a famous person from US that designed a very new type of tram
cars in the late ‘20. The most famous Peter Witt trams are in San Francisco
and Milan, but many other cities have them. Turin is one of them.
Ok, stop with the history, now say some more about the LEGO model. The LEGO
model is made in 1:37 scale, like the other tramways that I’ve built in the
last years (Tram type 5000 and 7000:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=63616 and
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=189494 ). It has about 600
parts and can be motorized with a standard 9V train motor. I build the inner
side too, not just the outer shape.
The livery is green and light green but I had to make this last one white
because there aren’t many light-lime parts :-(
So enjoy the pictures here:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=276509
Cheers,
Luca
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Luca,
May I be the first to congratulate you on an excellent design. You’ve captured
the characteristic shape of the tram very nicely. I think that I rode on one of
these - or at least, a similar model - when I was in San Francisco on their ‘F’
line. (It was brought there from Italy, too!) Yours looks like the real thing!
-Jordan
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| (...) Many thanks, Jordan! You're right, in San Francisco on lines "E" and "F" run Peter Witt trams from Milan. They are very close to the one of Turin, except for the livery: orange in Milan, green/light lime in Turin. Cheers Luca PS: more pics of (...) (17 years ago, 19-Sep-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| Hi train friends! I'm going to show you my last LEGO creation. This is another tramway from Turin (Italy), my hometown, but this tramway is an historic car. It was designed with the ideas of Peter Witt and it was built in the 1932-33 by FIAT. Peter (...) (17 years ago, 19-Sep-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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