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  1. ivanlan9
    I agree, let's have some closeups of those engines. It's very nice to see some lesser-known prototypes!
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    BTW, Sergio, did you know that The Brothers Brick have headlined you? https://www.brothers-brick.com/2022/10/16/ashes-to-ashes-rust-to-rust/
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    @SérgioThe viaduct my brother saw was not the aquaduct in your picture, which is, of course, gorgeous. It seems to be a bridge for people to walk on, and it has a big yellow banner/sign on it that says "Aeri de Montserrat." If you PM me I can send you the brief movie my brother shot that shows it.
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    Great video! I think I'm in love. ...
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    Ha! I'm with you on steam, Sergio. But as usual you exercised your Sith Lord powers and created something magical. Good job. BTW, my brother was just in Barcelona and rode the cable car in Montserrat, where they saw a viaduct that reminded me of the spectacular scenery I've seen your pictures.
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    Earlier, you say, "first showable design of the front (there were more before but all ugly ;-) )" And I say, "How could you tell?" Seriously: very very nice build. I'm impressed. I'm a lousy seer, but I wouldn't be surprised if this is the winner, at least if you bring the same quality to the 1944 version. We have no reason to think otherwise.
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    She's gorgeous! Oh, and the engine ain't bad, either.
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    Do you know about an article by Willy Ley in the June 1956 Galaxy Science Fiction magazine entitled, "Mutant of the Iron Horse"? It's about the Wupperthal monorail in Elberfeld-Barmen, and also has some information about propeller-driven railcars and monorails. Interesting stuff! (The pictures aren't very good, considering the article and phototechnology are 66 years old.)
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    I'm in awe. Both at the Soviets* for creating the prototype and at you for finding & choosing it. This promises to be amazing. *Re Soviet, um, "ingenuity." Many decades ago, during one of the 5-year plans when quotas were being handed out to all kinds of concerns, such as factories, farms, department stores, and so on, a certain chandelier factory was given its first quota. The factory happily complied, and churned out the entire years' quota in a matter of weeks (or perhaps days). The fixtures were manufactured in lead, as the quota had been set by weight.
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    I think I'm one of the people . I have some friends who live in Portland who want to take pictures, but they caught covid and weren't able to carry through yet. They're recovering, however, so I'll bug them again.
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    Wow! I'd never heard of the prototype. It's amazing! I think your design so far is pretty close; it's an unusual prototype with *extremely* tricky angles. I'm looking forward to seeing how you proceed.
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    Nice loco. Totally adorable! I watched the video. How come you put an "Adult Content" flag on it? Good thing I had an account!
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    I was all set to post that I STILL didn't understand how the trucks work. Then I looked at your render one more time, and I finally saw that there are TWO trams side by side, one pushed out ahead of the other, in the side view. Oh, well, duh, that explains the bogie offsets--they're not offset. Argh. I still like the green & yellow one best. They're all nice, though.
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    I don't understand how the trucks (bogies) work on the first set of trams, the Tatra. It looks like the sides are offset???? Couldn't have axles if that is the case. I looked this up on Wiki, which wasn't any help. Do you have pix of a prototype for these offset sides? My brain hurts.
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    They might be ignorant of the value of Lego, but lying and framing a little kid? Absolutely no. Fire them. I once had a house-sitter when we went to Brazil for three weeks. He was recommended as the good kid of a good friend's friend. When we got back, a cursory inspection seemed fine, so I paid him & he went off happy. Next day, we discovered that instead of walking the dog, he let her poop all over the entire living room carpet. A few small things were broken. And then when I checked the turntable on the stereo, I found that one of the sound-isolation legs had been replaced with a wooden drawer knob that just happened to be the right height. He'd cleaned up the carpet the night before we came back, but he never did own up to the broken stuff or the drawer knob. I wanted to demand my money back--what I paid him would have just barely covered the cost of the turntable--but my wife said no, it would have caused trouble with the friend. I wouldn't have gotten my money anyway--I'm sure he either drank or smoked it all up immediately. We moved the next year, and I found still more evidence. A little bit of care and a smidgen of honesty would have made all the difference, but he kept his mouth shut, took the money & ran. This is what happened to you, and will happen again if you don't deal with it.
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    UP 4015 is an SD70M, built in June of 2000. Athearn makes an HO model of this engine; it's kind of important to make sure you're modeling the correct prototype, as the SD70 series is long and varied: the radiator grills at the rear of the loco are diagnostic. The latest is the SD70ACe-T4, which has very wide and flaring radiators, and meets T4 emission standards. The SD70M was built from 1992-2004. I think the number of all SD70 variations is around 5700 and still growing, although sales of new locos have dropped dramatically since around 2015 or so, enough that GM sold off EMD to Caterpillar, and GE sold its loco business to Wabtec. Both make only a few engines a year, and most of those are export. Here in Salt Lake City, I drive by the UP yard and I can see roughly a 2km length of stored SD70s that UP draws upon instead of buying new ones. This is all due to PSR, "Precision Scheduled Railroading," a railroad management system that management loves and railroaders hate. It cuts costs to the bone while hurting people. Be glad it doesn't seem to have reached Europe yet. ...
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    Oh, I love the green chopper-nosed one. Marvelous. If it were a City set I'd buy it. As opposed to the official, very boring, City train sets (see? "Trains" is not even a theme now, and hasn't been for a *very* long time). The blue & grey one is very nice too, but would never run on my layout.
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    Standard disclaimer: I'm not a fan of steam. But I still bought & enjoyed Emerald Night, and wish I'd bought three instead of only one. Missed out, regretted it ever since. I was hoping for an upgraded EN, but instead, we get--a big sneer. I will now officially give up hope that TLG will listen to us. They haven't, they don't, and this is TLG saying clearly, "We will NEVER listen to train fans again. There is no profit in it." Buy one? Hell no. Would I take it if someone gave it to me? Yes. Spend my own money on it? Not a cent. Too bad.
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    I hope you show your solution here!
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    Thorsten's right: that's one insanely gorgeous engine. I'm very jealous!
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    Amazing! I've gotten to crawl over the one that used to be, and maybe still is, at Ogden Union Station here in Utah. Gotta admire the things, impractical as they were. I agree, bogieman, you're in the major leagues.
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    Oh, stop it, Sergio. Just stop. You're making all the rest of us look like kindergarteners.
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    Sweet! I'll take several of the 6-wide ones in Santa Fe red, please. You could always provide stl files for those of use dumb enough to try to print them ourselves.
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    You even said it wouldn't run on radii much smaller than R104! I didn't miss it, I forgot it. Argh. I finally sprang for the book about the M1000* units, and I'm looking forward to it.
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    You're the triplex guy? You're nuts, you know that, right? But I guess that means your gorgeous M100005 squeaks through the R40 curves. ...
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