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Re: Dalylight train, Southern Pacific Coast
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:33:34 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Benn Coifman wrote:
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Very nice, it is great to see the old consists alive again in Lego and the
Daylights were just crying to be done. The lettering looks great and I can’t
wait to see how your GS4 turns out.
So how did you manage to get the non-articulated cars so close together
around the curves, also using the spring brick?
Benn
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Thanks Benn,
I had spotted the Daylight while researching long passenger train consists a few
years ago, when working on my Caifornia Zephyr train. The DL was beutiful, but
seemed impossible to do justice at the time, how would I get all that orange,
and the red texured 1x2s. And the that articulation would be impossible n LEGO!
Then a few months ago I spotted the photos and consist data I’d saved while
rebuilding a computer and sifting though the backups. It had to be done. And
what better “California” (where I live) passenger train after completeing my CZ.
I’ll be hard pressed to match the work of other builders for the GS-4. Ben
Fleske did 4449 Engine 9 years ago, it’s beutiful. And it ran long before he
developed his large Steam drivers!
http://www.bigbenbricks.com/ben/lego/4449daylight/daylight.htm The orange
brick must have cost a fortune back then.
The non articulated connecions all use the spring brick I mentioned before. This
works well because I don’t have 4 wide vestibules on the ends of the cars.
Otherwise they might get hung up, I’m not sure. The other LEGO examples I’ve
seen had a single 4 wide on one car, but not the other. The Daylight had full
width vestibules, so 6 wide was perfect.
The articulated cars use a rubber band that is hiddin inside the cars, just
above the floor boards. You can just see it in the following photo. In the right
hand gap, just above the grey plates.
I’m standing on the shoulders of giants.
Mat
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| (...) Hey Mat, You completed the CZ??? Please share photos. I saw the D&RGW Alcos in the background, but no cars. (...) Wow, them were some impressive trains. I like the 2000 era show photos. Now jumping to your reply to Cale... (...) At least with (...) (16 years ago, 1-Aug-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) ... (...) Very nice, it is great to see the old consists alive again in Lego and the Daylights were just crying to be done. The lettering looks great and I can't wait to see how your GS4 turns out. So how did you manage to get the (...) (16 years ago, 27-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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