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Re: My Big Hook is back
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lugnet.trains
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Sat, 14 Oct 2000 10:05:53 GMT
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unless the flange on the middle
> wheel was trimmed off (which I've never tried, BTW). Anyone else try *that*
> old model railroading trick?
>
> -John
My dad did, with my new loco...oh, wait, that's not lego :)
(The engine at
http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Speedway/2049/Steampics/Y2K/GHLS1.html
in the first 3 photos. He kind of had a accident with it, and it went down to
the ground...broke the flange off one wheel, so he turned the flanges off both,
and it now has a set of "blind" wheels. This isn't too big of a problem, he
says it goes just as well, if not better, because it now doesn't bind up on one
of the tracks...)
James
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| (...) Fair enough. Of course, my Hiawatha is 8 wide:-) I just wanted to chime in the fact that one could move them apart and still have them work in turns. One full stud apart doesn't work, however, unless the flange on the middle wheel was trimmed (...) (24 years ago, 14-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains)
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