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SEFT-1 ....retro train probe.

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Big Boy

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Posted - August 10 2014 : 7:57:18 PM

A fascinating story, both of the vehicle and of the construction and abandonment of all those rails. Would LOVE to do what they are doing:

http://www.core77.com/blog/transportation/train_track_trek_seft-1_the_abandoned_railway_exploration_probe_vehicle_27195.asp
http://we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2014/06/los-ferronautas.php#.U-fza_ldWSo
http://www.wired.com/2014/07/abandoned-railways-mexico/
http://laughingsquid.com/seft-1-an-art-project-exploring-the-abandoned-railroads-of-mexico-and-ecuador-in-a-custom-road-rail-vehicle/

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kovacste000
Big Boy

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Posted - August 10 2014 : 8:06:37 PM

It would be pretty cool and very educational. By educational I mean teaching the people who are part of this project about railroading past in general. I wouldn't mind to do something like this at all.

-Steve

"A lot of modellers out there who go to these train shows see broken HO stuff and go, 'This is useless' when, in reality, they can still be used for modeling whether it's as a prop on your layout or a cool project to make something old new again."

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Posted - August 10 2014 : 9:02:28 PM

now I DARE someone make this in HO!
But it has to run on the tracks

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Chops124
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Posted - August 10 2014 : 9:38:42 PM

Astonishing and literate piece of work. The similarity of abandoned towns along abandoned
rail lines in the U.S. was vivid, but perhaps more intense in a country like Mexico,
which does not have extensive interstates.

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PRR 4800
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