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Re: 8 Wide Dual Engine Shed
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Mon, 17 Apr 2000 02:52:57 GMT
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johnneal@uswest.net^antispam^
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James Powell wrote:
> John N uttered:
> > Pretty basic, actually. I took a few more pics showing the doors and the
> other sides of the shed. At the suggestion of some off-line folk, I added a
> circular window in the front. I hope to locate some of those arches in red
> soon.
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=326
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> John, what strikes me as funny is the side door is _much_ too small for the
> engine shed. It looks comical
That part is intended as an office room or so I thought; perhaps Lar can shed
<sorry> some light on it's function. I was modeling from a few protos from a
Walther's catalog-- perhaps I can get a few scans.
-John
> ...mind you, it could be that I am thinking of a
> English engine shed, where the opening would only be 10'6" or so, vs a NA one,
> but the height clearances were not all that much more over here than the UK
> ones (width...well...thats different!). The only really good pictures I have
> to scale off of are of the Taly-llyn railway, which is 2'3"(+the width of a
> thumb), and has photos of one of the drivers in the doorway of the engine shed.
> The engine door looks to be about 10' at the middle or so, so that is what I
> am kind of scaling off of. Darn'd Lego scale, but I would think of leaving off
> the side door/building alltogether.
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> The tall windows look good, I used the same idea on my coal mine boiler house.
>
> James
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| (...) Right. If it is wrong, I'm wrong too, as I have a much lower shed like appurtenance on the side of the car shop I did in blue/grey on the GMLTC yard module. I tend to agree, offices may well be single story while the main car or engine house (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| John N uttered: (...) other sides of the shed. At the suggestion of some off-line folk, I added a circular window in the front. I hope to locate some of those arches in red soon. (...) John, what strikes me as funny is the side door is _much_ too (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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