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Subject:	Re: Basic 'bread and butter' tank cars to share with you.
Newsgroups:	lugnet.trains
Date:	Sun, 8 Oct 2000 21:18:23 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Ran Talbott writes: > On Thu, 5 Oct 2000 05:47:56, "Harvey Henkelman" <Harvey333994@cs.com> > wrote: > Train-newbie question: has anyone done tank car MOCs using "facet" > bricks? I picked up a few, with an eye to doing something similar to > the Twin Tank Transport, but it occurs to me that they > might look okay if built into a long horizontal tank, instead of > sphere-ish vertical ones. I don't have enough bricks to try it, > though. Not sure about other folks, but Michel Magnan has done some that look pretty cool... http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=15759 James

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		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)

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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)

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