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Re: See Double Decker Commuter
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Thu, 10 Aug 2000 17:02:21 GMT
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"James Mathis" <thakius@nmt.edu> wrote in message
news:Fz1nsF.7By@lugnet.com...
> I post this in response to some discussion concerning double decker • commuter
> trains.
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> This is a fairly old model. I built it back in March or April.
> It is still a version 1 model as I haven't had time nor inclination to • modify
> it further.
I like it very much, hope you pick it up and make more cars and perhaps a
new version with the improvements you mentioned in your post. :-)
> It is loosely based on the double decker commuter train cars in The
> Netherlands. It lacks the slant blue stripes typical of the real paint • scheme.
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> http://www.ee.nmt.edu/~jmathis/yellowdutchengine.html
Great! I recognised it immediately (I travel a lot in the 'real thing') Also
the 1700 series engine looks great!
> What I'd change if'n I could:
> 1) "real" yellow train window frames with trans light blue train glass • inserts
> (where's the yellow soccer bus?) :-(
Yeah, I also hoped for a yellow soccer bus... I already had plans to use
them... now I have changed my LEGO train company's colour scheme to blue
with white windows...
[snip]
> I am happy that there are now blue soccer buses.
The most of today's double deck cars in the Netherlands have blue windows
too
http://mercurio.iet.unipi.it/pix/nl/electric/emu/dd-irm/8467.jpg
(BTW. the engine on that picture is nicknamed 'buffalo')
> Someday I should like to
> complement this potential train set with yellow and blue-window framed
> passenger cars similar to Eric Brok's Hondekomp (sp?) "dog face" train
set.
Actually the 'hondekop' train origionally doesn't have the blue windows. The
origional cars for this train has the yellow/blue slanted stripes scheme.
The dogface trains today also pull the newer cars with the blue horizontal
stripe.
http://mercurio.iet.unipi.it/pix/nl/electric/emu/mat64/531.jpg
The blue windows are used in the 'koploper' (headrunner) ICM train and all
the newer cars:
http://mercurio.iet.unipi.it/pix/nl/electric/emu/icm/4003.jpg
A nice train to model especially when you build more to 'couple' the
engines:
http://mercurio.iet.unipi.it/pix/nl/electric/emu/icm/ns4000cp.jpg
Erik has a prototype on his page... Dunno if a completed model was build? I
would be interested to see it!
A nice picture of the 'hondkop' and ICM next to eachother:
http://mercurio.iet.unipi.it/pix/nl/electric/emu/ajp4311.jpg
hmm... good source of inspiration that picture gallery :-)
--
Frank Buiting
Visit the LEGO Lexicon: http://members.chello.nl/~f.buiting/lego/
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| (...) If ever I can afford to buy multiple blue soccer busses, then this is a possibility because I really like the "buffalo" train set! (...) Thank you. I think my version of the 1700 engine is too short, but LEGO modeling suggests compression. (...) (24 years ago, 10-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| I post this in response to some discussion concerning double decker commuter trains. This is a fairly old model. I built it back in March or April. It is still a version 1 model as I haven't had time nor inclination to modify it further. It is (...) (24 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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