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I having been working on and off on my 8 wide Hiawatha loco since last winter and have finally finished it:-) It is an Atlantic 4-4-2, the original engine to have pulled Milwaukee Road's famed Hiawatha train which ran between Minneapolis, Minnesota (...) (25 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build) !
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| | Re: New Pics of my Hiawatha Locomotive
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(...) And what a engine it is! (...) Yep, even if it is 8 wide :) John, a really nice job of making this loco. What are you using as the driver wheels though? It looks right nice as far as a loco goes, even if it is bigger than my creations (such as (...) (25 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: New Pics of my Hiawatha Locomotive
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(...) *Impurity Warning* ;-) The drivers are the wheels from the 5571 Monster Rig <gasp> cut in half. Then I had to <gasp> file down one of the flanges on each wheel. Finally, in order to get the thing to run properly, I <gasp> glued washers onto (...) (25 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: New Pics of my Hiawatha Locomotive
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Just beautiful. Love the contouring on that front end! Gotta run. later, James Mathis (...) (25 years ago, 20-May-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: New Pics of my Hiawatha Locomotive
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Sweet job. I especially like the black rail that runs around the top of the engine. It adds a very nice detail. How well does that thing round corners? I have found that with the longer wheelbase you sometimes run into coupling issues. Any insight (...) (25 years ago, 20-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thank you. (...) Cornering, of course, is the rub when creating larger locos because of the unnaturally tight curvature of the track. We are trying to design something that works yet in real life is impossible. So compromises are inevitable. (...) (25 years ago, 20-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New Pics of my Hiawatha Locomotive
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John Neal <johnneal@uswest.net> wrote in message news:3926EE0B.9E36BF...est.net... (...) Is that John Neal, the man who puts 4 wide trains on HO trucks, 14 wide on G scale trucks and recently tried to convince others to forsake Lego track (...) (25 years ago, 22-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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