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How about an attempt at a P-5a?
Trainz "short GG-1"
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ScaleCraft
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Trainz "short GG-1"
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Re: Trainz "short GG-1"
A lot closer, missing a main axle and the curvature of the roof line is off. Way better than the butcher job on the lettering of the NYC box cab in the other post.
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Made it race against time.
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Made it race against time.
Once I built a railroad, now it's done --
Brother, can you spare a dime?
Re: Trainz "short GG-1"
Strange.
roger
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I support thread drift.
If God didn't want women to be looked at, He would have made 'em ugly. RAH
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J. S. Bach
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Re: Trainz "short GG-1"
I wonder it the builder tried a "what-if PRR did a streamlined version" of an O-1:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylva ... d_class_O1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylva ... d_class_O1
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Re: Trainz "short GG-1"
Maybe that was the thought but it didn't quite make it.
roger
I support thread drift.
If God didn't want women to be looked at, He would have made 'em ugly. RAH
I support thread drift.
If God didn't want women to be looked at, He would have made 'em ugly. RAH
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Rufus T. Firefly
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Re: Trainz "short GG-1"
rogruth wrote:Maybe that was the thought but it didn't quite make it.
You are a very generous person..........
The owls may indeed not be what they seem but still serve an imperative function: they remind us to look into the darkness.
Re: Trainz "short GG-1"
The person that actually built the unit probably did know it was an attempt at a P-5A. It is being sold "used" as a "short GG-1" probably because most people wouldn't even know there was a P-5A.
Pretty nice work and they got a lot of the P-5A "right". Extra middle truck axle (even a "dummy") and moving the pantographs nearer the center cab would have made the model more accurate. I wonder what made him (or her) make the weird roof line. Did it start life as a kitbash of a "traditional" GG-1 shell?
Pretty nice work and they got a lot of the P-5A "right". Extra middle truck axle (even a "dummy") and moving the pantographs nearer the center cab would have made the model more accurate. I wonder what made him (or her) make the weird roof line. Did it start life as a kitbash of a "traditional" GG-1 shell?
Once I built a railroad, I made it run,
Made it race against time.
Once I built a railroad, now it's done --
Brother, can you spare a dime?
Made it race against time.
Once I built a railroad, now it's done --
Brother, can you spare a dime?
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Re: Trainz "short GG-1"
chuck wrote:The person that actually built the unit probably did know it was an attempt at a P-5A. It is being sold "used" as a "short GG-1" probably because most people wouldn't even know there was a P-5A.
Person who wrote the listing probably doesn't know there was a P-5A. Everything is a GG1 to some people.
Did it start life as a kitbash of a "traditional" GG-1 shell?
Probably.
The owls may indeed not be what they seem but still serve an imperative function: they remind us to look into the darkness.
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