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Subject:	Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains
Date:	Fri, 4 Dec 2009 18:57:14 GMT
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In lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, John Neal wrote:

Here is a little trolley that I built yesterday to run around the Christmas tree this year:

In-home, floor level use is probably fine, but if you ever run that on a layout you better hope that it doesn’t take a spill, or the silver paint is likely to get uglified. I was never really sure if they were painted or not, but recently I was cleaning some silver-tone parts that I had on cars that were displayed in Owosso, and after a bath in warm soapy water followed by getting scrubbed with a toothbrush, when I went to reassemble the cars I discovered that I’d scrubbed a noticable amount of paint off of the cheese wedges and grille tiles.

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		Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool)
(...) Whoa, thanks for the heads up. Our tree is in a carpeted room, and I doubt I'll ever run the thing except around Christmas time. It'll probably spend most of its life on display. Sad to hear about the scratching issues, Dave. I will remember (...) (14 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, FTX)

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		Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool)
Here is a little trolley that I built yesterday to run around the Christmas tree this year: (URL) Aside from the WOW factor of seeing a MOC completely in a rare color, it was a pretty straight-forward build. The only tricky part was the fact that I (...) (14 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, FTX) !

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