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(...) I have to say, this looks pretty slick, I bet it looks fantastic in action. Clever work of the floating assembly of the fixed valve gear to drive wheels, I know that space is WAY tight! well done :) You really need some side hand rails along (...) (16 years ago, 19-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Post your bogie/truck designs
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(...) (URL) Here's one. It's an NA pasenger truck. The MPD and 2 axel varients are in my brickshelf folder: (URL) Bothe end axels "float". But changing it to a single end floating works fine as well. And you could replace a 2x2 end tile withe a (...) (16 years ago, 17-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) ... (...) And thank you Tony, like Cale you are too kind. The cylinders are rigidly fixed with the drivers (well, there's a little slop), so the whole unit rotates together. The hard part was making it small and sturdy. The end result works, (...) (16 years ago, 15-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) ... (...) Thank you Cale, you're too kind. I just wish I was at BW long enough to get a decent photo of our two N&W engines side by side. Indeed, I plan on featuring shots of the running gear off of the locomotive in the forthcoming RB (...) (16 years ago, 15-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: 7896 "Straight and Curved Rails" Set Review
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(...) The review might have been a little too dead pan if the folks at Lego lurking these dark halls take it seriously. I suspect it was purely SKU's, since most children getting the set would already have a small oval in hand, a ton of curves (...) (16 years ago, 15-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains)
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