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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> But I go 4 wide to be compatible with TLG stuff. Most of their
> containers are 4 wide. Would that it were not so. My articulated
> doublestack well cars and my spine trailers are designed to take 4 wide
> containers that are 16L. I don't have enough parts to make good 6 wide
> containers, although it's tempting. Desigining a 6 (or 7) wide
> articulated doublestack that could take 6 wide containers would be very
> very challenging, and then I could go to 6 wide tractors which would
> look better.
I have a feeling I'm going to go with 6 wide. TLC is making more and
more 6 wide trucks (now if only they'd make some truck wheels suited for
double wheel arrangements other than the 2x2 hubs - technic or
standard). I only have a few of those container doors, so I'd be doing
something different for a door in any case, possibly no door at all,
just use some 1x1 bricks with recessed side stud to put a little bit of
detail on the ends or something.
I may also use the 1x3xX doors which are similar to the car doors
(though I don't have many of those).
Of course for 4 wide I do have a bunch of those flip up equipment doors.
> When I say plug compatible I am referring to how the containers mate
> with each other top to bottom (and mate with the trailers and railcars),
> not the hitching mechanism.
>
> However I adopted the 4549/maersk hitching mechanism, which is why my
> 2150 tractor had to have frame modifications.
Is that 2150 a misteak, or am I missing something?
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| Frank catches me in an apparent error... (...) 2148 is what I typed. Trust me. Nefarious forces must have incremented it by two at some point. :-) (24 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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| I made some 6 wide trailers way back when I was first playing with train LEGO. But since then I have been mostly 4 wide. Not because it's right. It isn't. IRL trailers and boxcars are almost exactly the same width, (10' 6" I think) and 6 wide (...) (24 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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