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Re: First true Train MOC (NELUG Boxcar).
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Wed, 7 Jun 2000 13:40:11 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Eric Kingsley writes:
> > Hey all,
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> > You may have noticed that I did some containers recently for the PNLTC world
> > record event. Well part of that discussion tailed off into the possibility
> > of doing boxcars. I don't know if the boxcar idea will come to fruition or
> > not but it inspired me to give it a try.
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> Very nice try. Lots of good detail. Since you don't have bogie plates (which
> are cheap, go get some) or a floor plate (which I feel isn't worth the money,
> doing it with regular plates is the way to go) another alternative to the
> turntable which is sturdier is to use the 2x2 tile with center technic pin
> plugged into a properly hollowed technic plate assembly in the floor.
Thanks, I will try that at some point although I don't have a lot of technic
plates to work with either. Probably enough for a couple cars but not a lot.
The 2x2 tile is a great idea I should have thought of that.
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> Re the OSHA comment on the page (I can't believe I get personal references on
> web pages, but ah, well, such is the price of fame)... your box car somehow
> (with the large "billboard" graphics, and relative shortness) says 1920s-1930s
> to me. If that's the era, there was no OSHA and ladder rungs to the roof
> leading to a vertical rod (horizontal wheel) brakewheel are extremely
> prototypical. Change to the 50's and it's a high mount vertical wheel, change
> to the 80.s and it's a low mount (reachable from one or two rungs) vertical
> wheel. So you're fine. The hobo is a nice touch.
Cool so I can let my rider get squashed and I won't get in trouble for it :-).
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> Doors don't need a recessed area so bring that recess back out flush. I know
> we're faking it doorwise, but a too thick "door" is less distracting than a
> hollow in the side of the wall. (a real door is typically about 2 inches thick
> or so made of pressed steel with reinforcing ribs.
Actually I think you are "misteaken" this time Larry, There is no recessed
area on the car :-). The black makes it hard to make out but I actually used
12 1x2 tiles with center stud turned so 1/3 of the tile sticks out above and
below the doors on both sides to create a lip that the door itself fits tightly
between. The door is held on with a 1x2 plate with 1x4 bracket with the plate
for the door attached to the bracked in the holes instead of the normal
attachement.
So the long and short of it is that the wall of the car is not recessed but I
have tried to simulate the track for the door. I really like it myself so its
going to stay. I have to take a couple more pictures of it tonight so maybe I
will try and get a better picture of the door and the simulated door rails.
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> Great work. Now do one for the Construction Site (in different colors, natch)
I was thinking about it. I need to go down there soon anyway and I was going
to ask them if it was OK.
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> ++Lar
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> Ignore John Neal about the buffers if you want, most of us use them even
> though they are indeed unprototypical for US practice. Or take his advice, he
> has worked out some very good ways to be "bufferless".
Well I did try going bufferless and I like it. Although I don't have a ton of
the 2x2 plates with rounded extensions to do very many like this and I don't
want to take a knife to my parts just yet. I did notice however that I had to
put the magnet culper un upside down so that it would line up relatively well
with cars using the buffers.
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> I was by the PNLTC last nite, dropped off some track and some rolling stock.
> Expect to see my doodlebug or a purpose built replica, my street car, a grey
> hopper, the RailBox, and my double stack car, if you come to the show.
Cool, Sounds like there is going to be a great variety of stuff running for
the world record.
Eric Kingsley
The New England LEGO Users Group
http://www.nelug.org/
View My Creations at:
http://www.nelug.org/members/kingsley/
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| (...) Very nice try. Lots of good detail. Since you don't have bogie plates (which are cheap, go get some) or a floor plate (which I feel isn't worth the money, doing it with regular plates is the way to go) another alternative to the turntable (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains)
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