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Re: Via train photos
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Sun, 24 Dec 2000 17:44:42 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, James Powell writes:
> http://www.geocities.com/wx732/LegoJPG/VIA/VIA.html
> Is what I have got done so far. 3 Coaches, one Beavertail, one steam heat
> van, one ~FP7A. Nose on the FP is hard to do. To do it right, we need some
> transition curves, from one plane into another.
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> I think the beavertail is likely wrong, it should be Stainless with a blue band
> along the top- my 'Canadian' photos don't have any photos of the beavertail
> painted except like that, but for uniformity, it looks right. Also, even
> though there has been much prodding around here, it is still a 6 wide model. 8
> wide would have been much easier for some details (like I could get 2 seats
> across in each coach-that would be quite nice), but would have limited its use
> for NALUG. Height wise, it is quite tall, at a clearance of 13 from the track
> bed. If the Naboo fighter cockpits were available in a longer form, I would
> use them to create a dome car as well as the beavertail, as it stands the
> beavertail dome looks somewhat trundicated anyway, and it is only a small dome
> on the real things.
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Well james they are nice but I too agree that they are short.
When I travel on VIA I have noticed a couple of engines.
I see the FP9A (the one you did).
The VIA LRC seen here http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=24518
, that provides a different option for modeling via, but I have only seen it
around Toronto and other big Canadian cities.
EMD F40PH (seen here in amtrack:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=22768 THANKS BOB HAYES) is
the newest in the fleet and I really like it. Ask the dudes at the station
if you can photograph the engine while its turning around(at least at the
Windsor station they let you do that)
So you can see if the FP9A isnt do-able then try some other engines. The
FP9A looks good though. You can stick two 24x6 together or anything else to
get the cars that long. =)
I would have put some pictures of my via train cars(HO-not lego, more-detail
cars) and the F40PH but brick shelf is screwing up and i dont have the time
to figure it out.
kai
p.s. if the brickshelf links dont work just look in the recent gallery they
were posted at 1:45 pm.
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| (URL) what I have got done so far. 3 Coaches, one Beavertail, one steam heat van, one ~FP7A. Nose on the FP is hard to do. To do it right, we need some transition curves, from one plane into another. I think the beavertail is likely wrong, it should (...) (24 years ago, 24-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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