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Santa Fe locomotive - work in progress
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 29 Dec 2000 05:16:59 GMT
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Tonight I started work on a Santa Fe locomotive based on a picture in an LGB
catalog. Although I can't find a picture of the exact train on the web
anywhere, the picture in the LGB catalog is fairly close to this one:
HTTP://ARCHIVE.TRAINPIX.COM/ATSF/EMDORIG/GP60M/100.HTM (yes an all caps URL)
My efforts this evening yielded this:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=2489 (warning - pictures are
large, I used the wrong resolution)
It isn't complete, the bottom (trucks and front end in particular) need some
more work.
Mike - mike_walsh@mindspring.com
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: Santa Fe locomotive - work in progress
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| (...) That engine you're making is pretty neat. I also use dummy headlights on all my MOC's (I sell the light fixtures on Brickbay), I realise that if you can't light everything then why light just your trains if your town/layout is dark too. I've (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Santa Fe locomotive - work in progress
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| (...) Nice work, Mike. I like the way you've done the warbonnet striping. The real thing uses yellow and black striping to separate the silver and red but I think if you're going to use just one color (which is a good choice) yellow is the one to (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Santa Fe locomotive - work in progress (Rev 2)
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| "Mike Walsh" <mike_walsh@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:G6BD5E.9nD@lugnet.com... (...) LGB (...) URL) (...) are (...) some (...) Rev. 2 of my Santa Fe Warbonnet locomotive is now complete. (URL) version is six studs longer than the previous (...) (24 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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