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Re: Talgo Update: Amtrak Cascadish Gull-Wing Car
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Fri, 3 Mar 2000 00:00:48 GMT
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This is an excellent likeness of this train. I have to wait for these about
once a month (usually on the southbound run from Portland), and aside from the
admittedly non-standard colours, this looks fabu! (Though I am not a
trainhead, I *do* appreciate the mechanic ability involved in creating them,
and keeping them running.)
-Cheese
In lugnet.trains, James Mathis writes:
> Even though a red, white, and black color scheme is incorrect for the Amtrak
> Cascades line in the Pacific Northwest, I have continued to develop this
> passenger trainset in the afore mentioned colors.
>
> To this end, a "gull-wing" type of Talgo end-unit car is needed to interface
> with the locomotive. Two color striping versions of the gull-wing car are now
> showing at my web site in a nearly complete 6 unit train set. The second
> locomotive is currently being built at the factory ;-)
>
> http://www.ee.nmt.edu/~jmathis/talgo.html
>
> Unique to the Talgo end-unit gull-wing car is an unshared, close-spaced,
> pivoting monoaxle. This is similar to the close-spaced dual axle used on my
> red German double-decker passenger car set. Different is the fact that the
> coupler to the locomotive is a ball-and-socket on a 2x2 turntable. The
> turntable is used to get just a little more pivot in the coupling that was
> needed.
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> http://www.ee.nmt.edu/~jmathis/bilevel.html
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> Thanks for taking a look. Modeling the Talgo trainset has turned into one of
> the most exciting (for me) trainsets that I've built in quite a while.
>
> Why not green?
> If you're silently asking me this question, I have this answer(s):
>
> 1. The red/white stripe train doors and white train-frame windows have gone
> unused in any model for a long time, so I figured I should do something with
> them. I've started, so why stop? ;-)
>
> 2. The majority of my green bricks are currently used in other models; namely
> four green tri-axle passenger cars, John Deere-like tractor, and the green
> stripe on Cisalpino train. Many Star Wars EP1 green "flash speeders" would be
> needed to get the 1/4-curved bricks in green that are used along the top of • the
> locomotive. An unaccounted quantity of green slopes and inverse slopes would
> be needed- I don't know if I have, or could get the quantities needed. Oh,
> also a couple of Star Wars Slave 1's to get 3-brick tall regular slopes in
> green. However, I rather prefer the shorter 2-brick tall regular slopes (I
> only have the 2-brick tall slopes in red and white). Green 2-brick tall
> slopes? Anyone? I'm not sure they are available.
>
> 3. Maybe someone else will be inspired to build a better likeness of the
> Amtrak Cascades Talgo line in the proper color scheme?
> I think that'd be very cool!
>
> later,
> James Mathis
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| Even though a red, white, and black color scheme is incorrect for the Amtrak Cascades line in the Pacific Northwest, I have continued to develop this passenger trainset in the afore mentioned colors. To this end, a "gull-wing" type of Talgo end-unit (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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