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Re: Basic 'bread and butter' tank cars to share with you.
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Date: 
Sun, 8 Oct 2000 23:56:17 GMT
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"Ran" <ran@netgate.net> wrote in message
news:XZUz3uUXNpcF-pn2-Fg3d1vU7Icu1@pm3-45.netgate.net...
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000 05:47:56, "Harvey Henkelman" <Harvey333994@cs.com>
wrote:


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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.

Ran


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 by in
quantity.

http://www.nclug.net/members/mw/trains/freight/freight_006.htm

Mike - mike_walsh@mindspring.com



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(...) 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)

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(...) "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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