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(...) Thanks. My main goal for this, other than having a working crane, was to have it fit in nicely with the rest of the train. It's a bit taller than I would have liked, but as my wife pointed out, "It's an old machine. It's supposed to be big." (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.adventurers, FTX)
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Now that the Thomas Weekend event at LEGOLAND CA is over, thought I'd start posting images of my engines and cars. First up is Trevor the steam traction engine from the Thomas and Friends railway series. It uses old style wheels. With almost the (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX) !!
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(...) The boom hinge is held in place by gravity. The boom itself is on friction pins, so in reality it's held in place by the Hand of God (i.e., if I keep my finger under the boom, it doesn't generally drop anything). I had wanted to put in a worm (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.adventurers, FTX)
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(...) Hi James, Thanks. LOL I feared I might have had my levels a little off. It's meant to be orange (there is real red on the top). I have to say a lot of credit goes to Soren for the containers. The train is just a prop for it. Tim (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Round house, not hose. Got it. Jonathan (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
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(...) That round hose IS very nice. Love the windows. Also, I like the use of green click hinges on the trees. Great work! Jonathan (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
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(...) (snip) (...) That is really nice! A great original-looking loc to go with those spacey containers. I love it! I really like the red/gray two-tone look and bulging engineer cabs. later, James Mathis (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) In which case it might be interesting to answer: How much more would you (or your club) be willing to pay for 9V track and accessories? ROSCO (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) The resolution argument actually doesn't hold up. When I added printing support to LDView in Windows, I made it generate an image using tiling that was at the printer's resolution (or maybe I maxed out at 300DPI; that was four years ago, so I (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) One more. Tim from RichLUG wrote: (...) No and no (at least not right away). We only do about 3-4 public appearances each year. Amoung our group, we have a significant amount of track, motors and controllers - enough to continue to run large (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) ... (...) This is a truly amazing work of art. Thank you for sharing it with us. -David (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.space)
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(...) photos snipped (...) I'm a member of the SCLTC, and I have to say, this was a great event. The park had over 13,000 people attending on Saturday, and near that on Sunday. Needless to say the layout was swamped by kids and adults. (URL) (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
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(...) I really like this. i feel that for freelance models of engineering items you really have to think about how it would work, get i this mechanicals right and it will look right. The way it moves along the car is nifty,it reminds me of something (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.adventurers, FTX)
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(...) I really like this. i feel that for freelance models of engineering items you really have to think about how it would work, get i this mechanicals right and it will look right. The way it moves along the car is nifty,it reminds me of something (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.adventurers, FTX)
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Hi all, Recently Soren Roberts came up with this (URL) excellent truck> with a really nifty container format. I dug it a lot and reverse engineered it with some help from Soren for the purpose of making a train to go with it. Anyway, to cut to the (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.space, FTX) !!
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| | Re: [rtlToronto] rtlToronto21 Tentative Ruleset Published
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(...) I dunno...I'd rather go 2lbs. As much as I abhore agreeing with Steve's suggestions...it is a good idea. :) Calum (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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The time for LEGO has reached an all-time low. My enthusiasm for my chosen hobby is still high, but between work and adding everything else I want to do (especially spending time with the better half) leaves me extremely little time to pursue my (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Steve has made a number of them for different LEGO sumo events (his first version was named "Reactor", followed by things like "Chernobyl"). Actually (depressingly for me) they do better than almost any RCX "intelligent" sumobot they've gone (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) nothing. I was just trying to give you more information to make your decision. (sorry I didn't think about this page sooner) A 1lb limit won't be an 'easy' challenge. (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Oh dear Chris, you seem to have picked up kg disease from Steve, and reversed it... maybe you're a matching pair? ROSCO (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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