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Re: Soo Line GP9 and a Tanker
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 2 Jul 2008 16:22:41 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Benn Coifman wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, Matt Hamann wrote:
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Here is a Soo Line GP9 and a US tanker car I recently built. The GP9 is very
similar to my Burlington Northern GP9 but the cab is much different. I used instructions
that Benn Coifman included in the second issue of Rail Bricks for the first
Reverse Engineering Challenge. I had to modify it a little so that it would
fit in with the other SNOT I have going on in the nose and hood, but the
design is still his. The use of viking wheels on the tanker was inspired by
Jonathan Lopes’ water tank he posted about a year ago.
Brickshelf folder for the
Soo Line GP9
Brickshelf folder for the
Tanker
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The cab windows might be from REC, but the rest of it is all you. Both are
very nice builds. The GP is clearly the next refinement in your Soo
locomotive roster (all of that snot has to give you a headache). You are very
stubborn to get that red curve on the cab just so. Only suggestion, if you
have room on the GP, you might want to drop the exhaust stacks by one plate.
For the tank cars, it looks like you wouldn’t want to put them at the front
of a long train, but who cares, it is still a good build and I might borrow
it myself.
Benn
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Thanks Benn. The row of 1x4 bricks with 4 studs on their sides above the “SOO”
prevent me from dropping the exhaust stacks down a plate. Perhaps I could
replace a few of them with 1x2 technic pins with 2 holes and pin them in place
with technic pins, though. The tankers are actually much sturdier than they
look. There is a pretty complex technic core in the middle (covered by the 1x3
curved slopes) and a frame of technic axles around the bottom to which the
trucks attach, so it would take a bit of force to split the tanker in half. I
guess we’ll just have to wait and find out what it will really do at the State
Fair.
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| (...) The cab windows might be from REC, but the rest of it is all you. Both are very nice builds. The GP is clearly the next refinement in your Soo locomotive roster (all of that snot has to give you a headache). You are very stubborn to get that (...) (16 years ago, 1-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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