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Future of Toy Train Manufacturing?
« on: March 15, 2014, 04:29:29 pm »
With the advent  of 3-D printers, they may be the future of Toy Train Manufacturing.
I came across this story about someone having built a Big Boy with a 3-D printer.
Very cool & wonderous possibilities!

4-8-8-4 Big Boy Locomotive by MakerBot
This is a HUGE model of the 4-8-8-4 Big Boy, an American steam locomotive used by Union Pacific Railroad from 1941 into the 1960s. A special project commissioned by MakerBot to test limits of 3D pr...
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Re: Future of Toy Train Manufacturing?
« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2014, 10:26:54 am »
And that was just a makerbot! Imagine what we could do with a Siemens Lazermetal 3D Printer that SpaceX uses to build rocket parts.
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