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Re: Pictures of the SCLTC at the Fullerton Railroad Days
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Thu, 9 May 2002 07:53:31 GMT
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Sorry if I dont remember you specificly, cause I tend to talk to alot of
people about my train. But its nice to see how well your train turned out.
And as you mentioned about the bogie, I started with a 6 long truck. But I
wanted to have some detail between the wheels. So I stretched it to 8 I
havent ecountered any problems running around the layout. Alought it tends
to not like the crazy mix of turns and switches sometimes. I also have
recently devised a way to aticulate the connection between the engine and
the cars. So now it has the complete closed coupled look that I wanted.
I will get some new pics of the blue color scheme and the close coupling
soon. I do have another question about the colored door look you have. What
windows did you use? Its kinda hard to tell from the pics. Are they train
windows or are they other windows with bricks around them?
Dave
In lugnet.trains.org.scltc, Thomas Michon writes:
> Dave -
>
> Funny you should ask =).
>
> I remember, when the PNLTC displayed at LEGOLAND last fall, seeing a
> wonderfully done TGV zooming around the layout. I had been experimenting
> with bogie articulations and failed miserably, so I asked the designer. The
> designer was very helpful in explaining how things were done, and in my
> inspiration I built my rendition of a futuristic high speed train.
>
> I reduced the bogie length from 8-studs to six studs, giving it more
> flexibility around curves, and managed to make the entire train rise only 8
> bricks above track level and still fit minifigures inside. I originally
> intended to have the engines share bogies with the cars, but ran into
> problems placing the electric motor.
>
> So, it's rather funny you should ask, since I've been looking everywhere for
> pictures of the TGV with the blue stripes you said you would add when we
> talked at your show.
>
> If you want, I can send you the DAT file of the condensed bogie, but it's
> done pretty much exactly like yours. =)
>
> - Thomas Michon
> Webmaster, SCLTC
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> > > The SCLTC just finished a weekend show at the Fullerton train station in
> > > Fullerton, Ca. Enjoy!
> > >
> > > http://www.scltc.org/pages/galleries/shows/02.05.04fullertonlayout.htm
> >
> > Who is the owner of the high speed train in back of this pic? Its the black
> > and blue one.
> > http://www.scltc.org/pages/galleries/shows/02.05.04fullertonlayout.htm?80
> >
> > And can the owner tell me if it is articulated and how they did the
> > articulation. I have built a train modeled after the TGV. My train can be
> > seen here.
> >
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=8898
> >
> > I will be updating soon with some new pics. Becase I have changed the black
> > sides to blue.
> >
> > Dave
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