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Re: Newbie Question about train parts
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 25 May 2000 02:55:31 GMT
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johnneal@uswest.net#spamless#
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Up until the recent advent of the Soccer buses, train windows were extremely
hard to come by. And even *with* the buses, you will not get "true" divided
train window panes. So the easiest colors suddenly now become red, yellow,
blue, and black, and white. Gray will be the hardest, and most all train
doors will cost you about a gallon of blood each. Hopefully LD will solve
that shortage...
-John
"David M. Jones" wrote:
> I know that I have heard all kinds of horror stories about trains and
> finding parts, etc....but how hard is it to find the train doors and
> windows? (Run-on sentence, what?) I''m not necessarily looking for a
> particular color or anything, but ingeneral, are they THAT hard to find?
> I'm starting my train collection now, and want to build (mainly) passneger
> cars, thus I would need doors & windows. Also, what colors are
> hardest/easiest to find?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
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| (...) It's interesting that most folks seem to consider only the divided glass panes as 'true' train windows. If you are building modern trains then the divided glass might be an irrelevance as they have sealed windows. I could also add that they (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| I know that I have heard all kinds of horror stories about trains and finding parts, etc....but how hard is it to find the train doors and windows? (Run-on sentence, what?) I''m not necessarily looking for a particular color or anything, but (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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