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> Many thanks to you two for sending your trains. I don't suppose
> you'd like me to "store" them for you on a permanent basis? 8-)
You can have them until about ~20th May or so :).
> I too was pleasantly surprised that the VIA stripes lined up, but then
> I realized what JamesP said - it's a fortunate natural outcome of the
> brick and window spacing/sizing. I didn't think JamesP's blue engine
> quite looked like a VIA engine, but it was the only blue engine we
> had, so... As for surviving the trip, very little of it did survive intact,
> (similar with Zonker's, but not as bad) but I was able to reconstruct
> almost everything. (I'm sure glad you used all those zip-lock bags.)
> That all-SNOT VIA engine was beyond me though - especially without
> an idea of what the intact engine looked like. :-) It's too bad Kai
> didn't send his VIA engine. http://news.lugnet.com/org/ca/nalug/?n=556
_bad_ experience taught me to use the Ziplock bags. The first show I went to
(hey, the only one I _have_ been to :( ) I took a bunch of stuff, including my
passenger train (based on Metroliner)...unfortunatly, it didn't survive the
trip over in the Turbo Beaver to Seattle very well. I spent ~3 hrs rebuilding
everything from an assortment of pieces, that I didn't know what belonged to
what. Fortunately, I was about to dismantle most of the stuff anyway...
As for a photo, I thought I had posted some...(goes and checks)
(http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Speedway/2049/LegoJPG/VIA/VIA.html)
I normally include a bunch of photos with stuff like that...doh!
(and yes, because it is SNOT, it is not a intuative design at _ALL_. A lot of
it does not make sense, until you realize that it is indeed SNOT construction.
It is a shame that there is no way to make the compound nose shape out of Lego
(or at least, I didn't come up with a decent way :)
(that's for the FP7, the Class 25 is far more normal in its construction, and
has quite a rigid body. The FP lacks a real rigid body, and it shows...I could
flex in the sides a ways, and there was no easy way to cure that problem once I
had built it. Next time, I have some ideas I will incorporate into it, and I
can Ldraw it up)
James
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| (...) In lugnet.org.ca.nalug, James Powell writes: (...) Many thanks to you two for sending your trains. I don't suppose you'd like me to "store" them for you on a permanent basis? 8-) I too was pleasantly surprised that the VIA stripes lined up, (...) (26 years ago, 21-Feb-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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