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Re: GMLTC going 8 wide
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lugnet.trains
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lugnet.trains.org
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Tue, 31 Oct 2000 15:08:26 GMT
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johnneal@&stopspam&uswest.net
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John Gerlach wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, John Neal writes:
> > Believe it or don't, I had absolutely no input to the decision for the GMLTC
> > to go 8 wide -- in fact, as you well know cuz you weren't a stranger to
> > dishing it out, I took all kinds of heat and ridicule for my 8 wide MOCs....
> > Then Conan saw the light....;-)
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> EXCUSE ME????? What sort of revisionist history rewrite is this????
:-)
> John Neal whined for months for the GMLTC to go 8-wide instead of 6-wide.
> And after we couldn't take his whining anymore we broke down and voted 'yes'.
(I stuffed the ballot box;-)
> And NOW he wants us to run train cars that are 60 studs long -- even though
> the REST OF THE GROUP agreed that 8-wide x 44 studs long was a workable and
> realistic maximum size...
For most cars. J-1 refers to my impressive but long passenger cars, but hey,
I'm modeling an 80 foot long train car here! Even at 60 studs I am compressing,
so I will continue to "whine";-)
> John Neal won't be happy until we're building at
> 12" = 1' scale. (That's *life sized*!)
Now *that's* an exaggeration! 14 wide will suffice:-)
> Methinks John Neal needs some more ventilation in his print shop, he's
> obviously been breathing too many fumes again...
Reality is setting in....I need to get back to the "shop";-)
-J-2, FUT train.org where we can air out our club's proverbial dirty laundry;-)
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> JohnG, GMLTC
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| (...) EXCUSE ME????? What sort of revisionist history rewrite is this???? John Neal whined for months for the GMLTC to go 8-wide instead of 6-wide. And after we couldn't take his whining anymore we broke down and voted 'yes'. And NOW he wants us to (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains)
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