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Re: Wild West Trains posted!
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Sat, 11 Dec 1999 19:12:27 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <38525C1B.30A76C15@voyager.net>...
> Dan wrote:
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> > Hello everyone!
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> > I stayed up real late last night and took pictures of the Wild • West theme
> > trains I have recently built (and am still building). Tonight I stayed up • real
> > late and posted the pictures and did a little re-modelling of my • Brickmani
> > site. Please feel free to check it all out and post any feedback to
> > lugnet.trains. Thanks for your interest...
Nice. That stock car actually looks pretty good. I could make a pink one...
I like the water tower also. The flatcar with stakes looks good also.
> They're cute. I'm assuming that since the locomotives don't have
> flanges, you have to keep a car coupled in front of them to keep them
> tracking (the car in front and the tender behind provide guidance, the
> tender behind provides driving force). Neat idea. And having the car in
> front be a troop flat means you're on guard against indians or bandits.
Actually, if you look closely, you will see that Dan is using two pulleys
for each wheel. The inner one has a tire on it. I hav thought about doing
this, but wonder how well it goes through turnouts/
> These are more toylike than I care for (1) but there's artistry in them.
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> I just am not a big fan of using the 1x6 handrails in any side
> application, they always look wrong.
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> 1 - oh, the irony! A toy is too toylike! :-)
> --
> Larry Pieniazek larryp@novera.com http://my.voyager.net/lar
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>
> NOTE: Soon to be lpieniazek@tsisoft.com :-)
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| Sorry about the last "blank" post... had too much coffee this afternoon... (...) Yes the drive wheels on the locomotives are made with stacked pulleys, with rubber "tires" from the Twisted Time Train keeping it on the rails. One side has 3 pulleys (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) They're cute. I'm assuming that since the locomotives don't have flanges, you have to keep a car coupled in front of them to keep them tracking (the car in front and the tender behind provide guidance, the tender behind provides driving (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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