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Re: See Double Decker Commuter
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 10 Aug 2000 18:16:47 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Frank Buiting writes:
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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.
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> 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. :-)
If ever I can afford to buy multiple blue soccer busses, then this is a
possibility because I really like the "buffalo" train set!
> > http://www.ee.nmt.edu/~jmathis/yellowdutchengine.html
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> Great! I recognised it immediately (I travel a lot in the 'real thing') Also
> the 1700 series engine looks great!
Thank you. I think my version of the 1700 engine is too short, but LEGO
modeling suggests compression.
> 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...
Maybe next year?
> > I am happy that there are now blue soccer buses.
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> The most of today's double deck cars in the Netherlands have blue windows
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> http://mercurio.iet.unipi.it/pix/nl/electric/emu/dd-irm/8467.jpg
> (BTW. the engine on that picture is nicknamed 'buffalo')
This looks great.
<snipped all the cool links to the European Photo Gallery to the commuter
trains in The Netherlands>
I would really like to see a more modest, less 1x2x1 trans light blue
thinwall window element intensive, upper deck window treatment for these double
deck commuter trains.
later,
James Mathis
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| "James Mathis" <thakius@nmt.edu> wrote in message news:Fz1nsF.7By@lugnet.com... (...) commuter (...) modify (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 10-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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