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  Re: Basic 'bread and butter' tank cars to share with you.
 
(...) "Simple" can also be "awesome": if I were a Mega-bloks product manager looking to start a Trains line, I'd consider a design that could be inexpensively produced, using only existing basic elements, to be pretty "awesome". I like the (...) (24 years ago, 8-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains)
 
  Re: Basic 'bread and butter' tank cars to share with you.
 
(...) Not sure about other folks, but Michel Magnan has done some that look pretty cool... (URL) (24 years ago, 8-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains)
 
  Re: Basic 'bread and butter' tank cars to share with you.
 
"Ran" <ran@netgate.net> wrote in message news:XZUz3uUXNpcF-pn...ate.net... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) I built this a while ago. The biggest problem with this design is the reliance on yellow 45 degree slopes which can be somewhat hard to come (...) (24 years ago, 8-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains)
 
  Re: Basic 'bread and butter' tank cars to share with you.
 
Yes, I like these bricks for a tank/airflow covered hopper look. Lar built a nice one quite a while ago: (URL) , and I myself have built one even longer in an 8 wide version, but no pics as of yet:-( -John (...) (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains)
 
  Re: Basic 'bread and butter' tank cars to share with you.
 
(...) These were done eons ago using Nebula Outpost supplied thinwalls. From my freight cars page: (URL) started out trying to make a tank but when I got done it looked more like a covered hopper to me so I gave it roofwalks and some slopes at the (...) (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains)
 
  Remote controlled 9V points by using 12V remotes
 
Hi guys! This weekendI was looking at my newly optained 9V switches and my older 12 automatic switches, and I think that it might be possible to use the 12V swithcing unit to control a 9V point. 1. it seems to me that the "stick" moves the same (...) (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains)

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