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Re: Check out my Union Pacific M10000
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Date: 
Thu, 14 Jan 1999 04:39:53 GMT
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Barbara Sproat writes:
It looks like everyone has started to come out of the wood work and introduce
themselves. I figured my time is past due - at least, that's what Jeremy keeps
telling me. I've always been a fan of LEGO, and now I've started to explore • the
world of trains. (Another one bites the dust and will soon wake up with padded
walls.)

http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/7589/LEGO.html

Wow, that was fun! I liked the diesel too. Y'know, I kinda like them black and
white. It seems to add to its "age" and really promotes an art-deco feel.
Sure, you could make them other colors like the trains they are modeled after,
but IMO they look fine the way they are.

I've been to your site before, and this is a nice addition.

I wonder if James Mathis would build something like this to match his art-deco
station. Of course, if his train were white, it wouldn't be as noticeable in
the station.

-Tom McD.



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  Re: Check out my Union Pacific M10000
 
(...) Wow is that a cool engine. No one that I know of has done a US proto steam streamlined yet. It needs a tender, though. I like the black and white too! Your diesel captures the 1920s 30s "boxcab look" that was prevalent before diesels really (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.trains)
  Re: Check out my Union Pacific M10000
 
(...) keeps (...) padded (...) locomotives to ride the LEGO rails. At first I thought the top color of the loco was gray, with bottom black. I couldn't figure out where the 1/4 curve box-cross-section pieces came from in gray!? I guess its my (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.trains)

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  Check out my Union Pacific M10000
 
It looks like everyone has started to come out of the wood work and introduce themselves. I figured my time is past due - at least, that's what Jeremy keeps telling me. I've always been a fan of LEGO, and now I've started to explore the world of (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.trains)

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