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Re: New train
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:47:12 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Ben Fleskes writes:
> All this talk of modules and standards inspired me to actually build • something.
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> http://www.geocities.com/ben_fleskes/royalblue.jpg
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> It's a Baltimore and Ohio Royal Blue 2-6-2 steam engine circa, late 1930s • early
> 1940s.
Chairs as skirting!! Wow is that cool. And using the LL928, what a great touch.
Makes me want to go out and blow a hundred just to get a copy of that
sticker/brick (I forget which)
We're starting to see a nice variety of "steamroller steamers", my newly coined
term for steamers that use flangeless main drivers that extend back into the
interior of the engine.
Anything that uses solid or boxpox drivers is a good candidate for this
approach.
Nice work, Ben.
I guess plywooders DO know how to build (rolling stock, anyway). :-)
++Lar
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| (...) touch. (...) ben>> It's a brick. (...) coined (...) ben>> Larry, would you please elaborate. I do not know what you mean by boxpox drivers? Would those be drive wheels that do not have spokes? (...) ben>> Thanks Larry! Is it save to say that I (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| All this talk of modules and standards inspired me to actually build something. (URL) a Baltimore and Ohio Royal Blue 2-6-2 steam engine circa, late 1930s early 1940s. Not sure if the wheel arrangement is correct since the leading and trailing truck (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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