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| I have been playing around with the possibilities of The Droid Escape Pod (set 7106). The 1/4 round side walls make a great tank car, silo, lighthouse or rocket ship shape. I took a stab at building a tank car out of a few of these sets. The tank (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) can'. -Harvey (24 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Nice start, but lose the wagon plate if you can. US prototypes don't have much other than a tank, maybe (but not always) a center spine, and some mount points at the ends for the trucks. They end up looking quite flimsy. I totally agree that (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) _modern_ US prototypes (those more recent than DOT 103 10 000 gal tank cars) don't have a separate frame. Older tank cars did have separate frames, and DOT 103's lasted until quite recently (and still do exist, just not in interchange (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) That's what I believe I said. ++Lar (24 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| Here is a killer rendition of an 8-wide tank car using the Droid Escape Pod parts: (...) (set (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) SRC (24 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Not bad, but I think you are a coupla months late;-) (...) (24 years ago, 20-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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