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Re: Americanized Emerald Night Full Train MOD/MOCs
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Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:17:10 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Mike Petrucelli wrote:
   I wanted to “Americanize” the Emerald Night so I basically made a cross between the official set and the 4-6-2 Southern Crescent. I also remade the dining car with doors in the ends instead of an opening and a complete overhaul of the roof. I then made 2 more passenger cars, 2 mail cars, and a caboose. More pictures of individual rolling stock and a short video of the train running can be found on my flickr page.





Hi Mike,

Nice done. Train runs verry well as can be seen in the video. I noticed that the doughter was also enjoying it by jumping over the track :)

Regards, Ludo



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  Re: Americanized Emerald Night Full Train MOD/MOCs
 
(...) Some of the modifications I made was to fix some of the friction issues on the front and back trucks of the engine. When powered by the drive wheels with a Power Functions XL motor they are not that big of an issue. When the whole engine is (...) (13 years ago, 27-Oct-11, to lugnet.trains, FTX)

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I wanted to "Americanize" the Emerald Night so I basically made a cross between the official set and the (URL) Southern Crescent>. I also remade the dining car with doors in the ends instead of an opening and a complete overhaul of the roof. I then (...) (13 years ago, 23-Oct-11, to lugnet.trains, FTX)  

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