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Re: San Diego Coaster train
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Date: 
Sat, 5 Apr 2008 02:11:40 GMT
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Mathew Clayson wrote:
The San Diego Coaster.

<<http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/impact1/TRAINS/Coaster/coaster101sm.jpg>>
After moderation <http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=166503>

My hero ;-) But there are 5 carriages, not 3!

I ride this every day to work, and I've been wondering how on earth to
turn it into a MoC (which I'm terrible at in any case).  I just wonder
if you modeled the interiors differently - there are maybe 4
different layouts all with different numbers of bike racks and of course
the very last one has a engineer compartment.  Yes, I know this
amount of detail will be very hard in Lego ;-)

Now you just need an abandoned car for it to run into like it did
on Tuesday :-(



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  Re: San Diego Coaster train
 
(...) Thanks Peter, seeing images of James' design really went a long way. He didn't have instructions when I built mine, and I never did look at the Ldraw files, but reverse engineering was half the fun. He got to see it in Portland last year, and (...) (17 years ago, 5-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains)

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  San Diego Coaster train
 
The San Diego Coaster. (URL) After moderation (URL) The engine is a F40PH-2C, and the cars are Bi-level coaches by Bombardier. It's been modeled before, but I wanted to use a more accurate color (dark turquoise ) and build longer cars. The train was (...) (17 years ago, 4-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains) ! 

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