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Re: Wheel Car
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 28 Aug 2000 18:19:27 GMT
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Chris,
Nice wheel car. What's the red panel? Needs more wheels. Did you damage
the wheelset or sideframes when you separated them?
"Christopher Tracey" <ctracey@envirolink.org> wrote in message
news:39A87BC1.C0774876@envirolink.org...
> For a tension tamer before the first week of classes, I dug out a lot of
> the lego that has been packed away for several weeks due to my move and
> built this wheel carrier car.
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=1188
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> It was inspired from a reference picture that I saw in an
> Erie-Lackawanna color guide. The prototype was an old 40ft gondola that
> was had its sides cut down. I couldn't find a good way to simulate the
> vertical ribs on the model- any suggestions? The red thinwalls
> simulated the primered steel from an unfinished repair job... ok- i
> can't find the rest of my black thinwalls. :)
>
> Does anyone know anything more about these cars. What does the bed of
> the car look like? and how are the wheels(the ones being carried)
> attached/secured? "wheel car train" is a difficult search to get
> applicable results. :/
>
> -chris
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| (...) Hi Tom... The red panel is what happens when you run out of black thinwalls in your sorting bins and sorting through several gallons of unsorted brick is too time consuming on my new limited schedule. :) The wheelsets just pop right out the (...) (24 years ago, 28-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| For a tension tamer before the first week of classes, I dug out a lot of the lego that has been packed away for several weeks due to my move and built this wheel carrier car. (URL) was inspired from a reference picture that I saw in an (...) (24 years ago, 27-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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