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Re: Just how sturdy are your trains?
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:28:45 GMT
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Christopher,
Just a quick question kind of off the subject. But on your pictures of your
SD40-2 there were some black and red wires
(http://cmasi.chem.tulane.edu/~lego/trains/Engine%20gallery/EMD_SD40_2/bulge
.htm). What are those for?
James
Christopher Masi wrote in message
<38DB335C.B5F154D@cmasi.chem.tulane.edu>...
> Let me say that this is NOTmeant to be derogatory in any way.
>
> I just checked out Ben's "a Baltimore and Ohio Royal Blue 2-6-2 steam
> engine"
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> http://www.geocities.com/ben_fleskes/royalblue.jpg
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> and it got me thinking. Ben used a stud forward building technique along
> the length of the engine, and I wondered to myself, "If the engine were
> picked up by that section would it break?"
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> The better looking my models get the more frgile they become. I could
> grab my early engines and rolling stock from any where without fear, but
> I have to be mor careful with my better stuff
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> My SD40-2
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> http://cmasi.chem.tulane.edu/~lego/trains/Engine%20gallery/EMD_SD40_2/emd_s • d40-2.htm
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> can only be safely grabbed right below the radiator bubble, luckily, the
> radiator bubble is right in the middle of the train. Grab any farther
> forward and you will knock out the blower housing, and any farther back
> you risk ripping the doors off.
>
> My car carrier (which I am happy to say I was able to finish thanks to
> MA12 [1]. It looks great, but there are no new pictures yet.)
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> http://cmasi.chem.tulane.edu/~lego/trains/rolling%20stock/rolling_stock.htm
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> cannot really be grabbed anywhere since the plates are only half
> connected.
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> So, what do you do when you go to a show. Make certain that everyone
> knows the weak spots and hope for the best, only run your fraglie models
> yourself, or throw caution to the wind and let your fellow LTCers or
> LUGers go wild without any advice?
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> Just thinking out loud,
> Christopher
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> [1] Now all I need is 150 more 1x4 gray plates and I can put my monorail
> back together.
>
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| James The wire is for the light that is behind the 1x1 clear rounds[1]. I had[2] it wired so that a LEGO wire coming from the working engine, an engine with a motor, would connect to an electric plate at the back of the dummy, SD40-2, engine. The (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| Let me say that this is NOTmeant to be derogatory in any way. I just checked out Ben's "a Baltimore and Ohio Royal Blue 2-6-2 steam engine" (URL) it got me thinking. Ben used a stud forward building technique along the length of the engine, and I (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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