8 They're also huge. The Great Lakes touch Canada, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Combined, the length of all five shorelines is about 44 percent of the Earth's circumference.
1 Spindle (textiles) , a device to spin fibers into thread. 2  Spindle (tool) , is the main rotating part of a machine tool, woodworking machine, etc. 3  Segmented spindle, a spindle consisting of discrete elements that can be assembled and disassembled on the fly.
The Doodlebug is made from a Standard Heavyweight car which represents a 72' car at 1:29 scale. The Doodlebug uses larger wheels than the heavyweights. A Standard Heavyweight uses wheels with a diameter of 1.16. The Doodlebug has 1.375 wheels which represent 40 wheels at 1:29 scale. Few railcars used wheels this large, but Aristo probably used them to match the wheels on the diesel power brick.