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Re: Acela ver2: Magnetic nose coupler
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Wed, 1 Nov 2000 00:10:43 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Holger Matthes writes:
> Hi James,
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> just checking the news before I will leave tomorrow....
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> > I have wanted to do this ever since modeling the TGV. It is tough enough to
> > get a few orange pieces. Even tougher to get enough orange for the TGV that • I
> > built. Then, to want to build a second orange TGV! I'm sure some LEGO fans
> > have many more orange pieces than I have. My 5-car orange TGV consumed 5
> > Target Halloween buckets, two Star Wars EP1 Pod Racer sets, and 6 Star Wars
> > Snow Speeder sets. And, this doesn't count the window elements nor the gray
> > roof elements.... I digress, sorry.
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> What could I do with 2 Snowspeeders, 4 Pumkins (all bricks are 2-wide ;-(( )
> the artic headquarter and the superb Podracer Set?? I think I have to work it
> out!!
I wanted to buy the 3171 Pumpkins set from S@H, but seeing that all bricks are
2-wide, I have hesitated. That is good, because I should not spend the money!
Just look for good real life objects colored orange ;-)
I have seen Maerklin models that are orange. Particularly a switch engine.
With orange "left over" pieces, I tried this:
http://www.ee.nmt.edu/~jmathis/orangeswitcher.html
It is terribly simple. Almost ugly and painfully plain with respect to other
switch engines that I have seen others create.
Is there a German DB commuter train that is white with an orange stripe?
> > Picking an easier color, one can make more similar trains to put • nose-to-nose.
> > Dave VinZant chose an easier color for his TGV: gray, blue, and black. The
> > latest version of his TGV ran at the PNLTC world record track length event.
> > Here's an old picture:
> > http://members.nbci.com/legotrains/tgv.htm
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> Thanks for the link! I remeber the blue-grey TGV: I Think there is also a
> double-decker TGV???
Yes, there is. It looks very beautiful. I saw it last year when in France
during my honeymoon. I did not get to ride on it. :-(
> Like your red DB double-decker (I use such a train twice
> a
> day - good feeling for a comuter-train!!). But I don't like the LEGO-Train
> nose! I looks to much like LEGO-Sets to me...
> I have seen a tilting LEGO-train somewhere. Is that the dutch page?? I will
> check it later! And DB runs some slower tilting trains too! But they hat much
> much trouble with the tilting technology!! I think it's an italian technology?
Yes, Eric Brok's is a Dutch page.
I believe it is Italian technology. I think I read that fact a few days ago.
I rode the Italian "pendular" set as the Cisalpino from Milan, Italy to
Montreax (spelling?), Switzerland. Again, a LEGO model I have built, but
without the complexity of the tilting mechanism. :-(
> > For you and me, I do not propose a tilting train. Rather, I address your
> > question, "ICE 2 or ICE 3"?
> > I have seen pictures of the ICE "T" (tilting ICE) and ICE diesel. They look
> > very similar to the ICE 3, but are not so sharp at the front.
> > Maybe you would like to model the ICE "T"?
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> I thought of the ICE 2 which is run as nose-to-nose train. Comeing from two
> different dirctions and leaving for the same direction!! It's so smouth when
> the real ones get together!!
Go for building the ICE 2 if that is your preference. You may not like the use
of a LEGO "train nose piece", but I am wondering if LEGO's next train set might
use a new special-use train "nose" piece. But, this begins speculation and
leads to discussions of "what is the future of LEGO trains?"...a topic for
another post that is exhausting.
later,
James Mathis
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| Hi James, just checking the news before I will leave tomorrow.... (...) What could I do with 2 Snowspeeders, 4 Pumkins (all bricks are 2-wide ;-(( ) the artic headquarter and the superb Podracer Set?? I think I have to work it out!! (...) (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains)
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