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Re: Train Pics at Joe' Lego Page
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 7 Apr 1999 23:32:03 GMT
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lpien@IWANTNOSPAM.ctp.com[spamcake]
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Christopher Masi wrote:
> I do not understand what is special about the underframe. Is it just a more
> accurate representation of the real thing?
That car is a double door car.
Most boxcars have a straight sidewall. The underframe central support
member does not come out all the way to the side/edge, and the frame
member is visible from the side (it's usually a dirty brown/gray/black
color in the prototype). I often model those underframes, as do many of
the rest of us.
Certain doubledoor boxcars have reinforced frames which go all the way
out to the edge (the opening is bigger, these boxcars originated in the
1920's to haul completed automobiles, and were used well into the 1970s
for truck frames etc... therefore due to the bigger opening, the car
needs reinforcing). In some cases the reinforcing is visible beneath the
door track. In some cases, the wall has "skirting" to cover the frame
for whatever reason.
This car is a model of the latter case. I don't think anyone has ever
done a doubledoor box with sidewall skirting.
Only an Uber-geek of trains like me would even get the distinction or
think it significant.
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| (...) The Pillsbury car is excellent. This one is a definate MUST COPY (Thanks Joe!); except I do not have any of the required bricks..grrrrrr. Joe, do you have more than one? Larry, which one is the coil car? (coal car? gray one?) (...) I do not (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-99, to lugnet.trains)
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