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Re: Water/Coal Tower
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Thu, 22 Oct 1998 04:57:01 GMT
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Steve Berry wrote in message ...
> Hi!
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> I'm not sure if I'm using the correct steam-era lingo, but has anyone
successfully constructed an authentic looking water tower? How about a coal
tower? I'd like a place for my 4-4-0 to stop for refueling. I've looked at
various pictures of water and coal towers in Model Railroader, but I've had
a hard time figuring out how to build them with LEGO bricks. The rounded
nature of the water towers present a bit of a design challenge.
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> Anyway, I thought someone might have tried a project such as this before.
My idea for a coal tower includes some kind of motorized feature, where coal
would be dumped into my tender.
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> For pictures of the 4-4-0 and my budget retrostation, be sure to visit my • home page! (http://users.codenet.net/steveb/index.htm).
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> Thanks,
> Steve
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Nice Pics....
I have only a mild interest in Lego Trains at the moment, but I used to work
for a
company that does Train Loadouts - or modern versions of coal-towers. I
built a rough model of one of these about 4 years ago. I thought I would
give
a link to a few pics I posted on my site - just to show how overboard you
could go
with it. :)
Man what I could do with this idea, the RCX, a few Micro-motors, and alot of
time. :)
Just thought you might be interested.....
http://www.caro.net/~donfor/htdocs/lego/index.htm
The pics are in the October 22nd update - second half....
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Don Forth ( Klaatu )
email: dforth@caro.net
Home Page: http://www.caro.net/~donfor
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