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Re: Hiawatha
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Mon, 27 Dec 1999 19:59:05 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, John Neal writes:

John Gerlach wrote:

Then he calls my locomotive 'delicate', just because it busted apart from
falling 3 feet onto a concrete floor!  Come on John, are you *never*
pleased?

Delicate may have conveyed the wrong idea.  The design is more for show than
for stability, and so when we run it I get very nervous (for good reason;).
I can't relax when we run that baby, but at the same time it is my fav GMLTC
loco.  What adjective would you use?

JohnN aka J-2

"Better than 8-wide"?  <kidding!>

Artistic?  Curvaceous?  Streamlined?  Looking like it's moving 100mph even
when it's standing still?

John1, GMLTC



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  Re: Hiawatha
 
(...) Better than most of your work and almost all the way up to Mediocre? (1) 1 - that's not one word but hey, neither is "looking like..." (25 years ago, 27-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)

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(...) Only Old Brad Kenobi can save us;-) (...) Actually, I've never used the thing-- I got it for my kids. I'll download ldraw for them and hope they can teach me it! PCs....<shudder> (...) Delicate may have conveyed the wrong idea. The design is (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)

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