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Re: A side view of Wheels of Time busses
« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2008, 10:28:41 AM »
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Did you see Lashedup's photos of the samples displayed at Trainfest here?

http://therailwire.net/smf/index.php/topic,16950.0.html

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Re: A side view of Wheels of Time busses
« Reply #2 on: November 27, 2008, 10:56:04 AM »
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Yes , thanks . Now we need an Art Deco depot , but it isn't mandatory . I think there is room for more busses , like an updated version of that bloated Scenicruser . But its nice to see that our buses has finally come in , oddly , all at once . Busses are to passenger trains , as trucks are to freight trains .


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Re: A side view of Wheels of Time busses
« Reply #3 on: November 27, 2008, 12:24:06 PM »
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Busses are to passenger trains , as trucks are to freight trains .

Indeed. I intend to model a railroad in 1950. At crossings there will be milk trains passing stopped milk trucks, passenger trains passing buses. "The times they are a'changin'".

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Re: A side view of Wheels of Time busses
« Reply #4 on: November 28, 2008, 01:23:54 AM »
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Anyone know the prototype?

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Re: A side view of Wheels of Time busses
« Reply #5 on: November 28, 2008, 06:39:43 AM »
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I believe they are a Mack product.

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Re: A side view of Wheels of Time busses
« Reply #6 on: November 28, 2008, 09:45:53 AM »
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Built by Mack, with deliveries starting in 1954 to Seattle.

See here: http://www.geocities.com/~buslist/MC_49.html

A good start and an attractive bus, though I still think a Fageol would have been of wider utility.

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Re: A side view of Wheels of Time busses
« Reply #7 on: November 30, 2008, 12:11:13 AM »
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We can get a bus painted for the MBTA but not a Comet II? This scale sucks!
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Re: A side view of Wheels of Time busses
« Reply #8 on: November 30, 2008, 03:57:39 AM »
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Comet II? As in the de Havilland airliner?

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Re: A side view of Wheels of Time busses
« Reply #9 on: November 30, 2008, 07:55:40 AM »
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Comet II? As in the de Havilland airliner?

I remember those and the Caravelle's . A landing path was directly over my house then .
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