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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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(...) For what its worth this is one thing I have asked specifically about and have yet to get an answer. If there were a really good rechargable battery would that make a differance. My feeling is that it depends on the following. 1. Pulling power (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Particular products may be "no longer available", but the *system* is still available. Just because the friendly N-scalers at the next layout are running a locomotive that was last sold in 1985 doesn't change the fact that there are hundreds (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Ummmm Timbort, if you're gonna jump in on a thread, you better be darn sure you get yout facts straight: (URL) were probably tricked by the shading on the reply quotes - unfortunately on Lugnet, matching colour does NOT mean matching (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Todd- IR is cheaper and easier than R/C. R/C requires regulatory approval in many places (like the US) and frequencies must vary with country. IR can be the same everywhere and requires no approvals. Of course IR has the disadvantage of being (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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"Todd Thuma" <thumat@gactr.uga.edu> wrote in message news:Iwus58.yn2@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) Bluetooth would have been the right answer! Mike (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I asked other members of RichLUG to respond last evening so we could reach consensus. So far Rich and Dustin have responded: Rich - I don't believe that our club would disband over this. If it was a decision by consensus to use the new train (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I don't think it has to be. My friend made me a parts list from MLCAD and it was arranged alphabetically by part description. I think it would make the most logical sense to sort a parts list by part number. Russell (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) So what are you saying? 0.0737087601KG in G is about 73 G. thats means, (useing your chart) with 3 motors, and 1 rcx, you have 73 grams left. with 73 grams, you can have 1 lx, one touch and one rotation sensor, (20 g) that leaves you with 53 (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Just a thought question from this: What do folks think about the fact that almost every other model railroad displayed at a train show displays obsolete, no longer available products? How about the American Flyer folks, or the vintage Lionel (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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First photos of SCLTC's Thomas the Tank Engine display at LEGOLAND California on March 25/26 are now up (URL). (6 URLs) The weekend was an enormous success for the park which enjoyed two of its four highest attendance days ever! -Ted SCLTC (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.org.us.lugola, lugnet.build, FTX) !!
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(...) (URL) (1) (1) all weights in g, not kg (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Based on these results, and adding a third old gear motor, I get 0.8375 LB So, that leaves 0.1625 LB (1)(2) for sensors and parts. (3) the more I see it, the more I LIKE the 1 lb rule! beams and parts are not all that heavy, so 2 oz should be (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) This is a good point which bears repeating in my mind. If TLG thinks that we as LEGO train AFOLs think this will somehow be a BETTER system, then they are (again) sorely mistaken. As Mark said, however, TLG is a toy company, so the point may (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) All masses in pounds (stupid scale): RCX with batteries = 0.56 - 0.60 (depending on batteries) Two light gearmotors = 0.13 Two "old" gearmotors = 0.185 So an RCX with two motors is between 0.69 and 0.785 pounds. Not a lot of room in there. (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) 1. I would not show LEGO trains in public ever again. This is because my trains are bigger than 8-wide, and I would be ashamed to mislead the public by displaying an obsolete product. I'm not prepared to change my sales pitch from an (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Steve: (wrong): (...) Lar: (correct): (...) You're clearly quite confused. HTH, HAND. (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Chris Magno wrote (a while back): (...) Actually, this is exactly the reason I had it drilled into my head all through undergrad that you never write a number like ".453"; instead, you always include a leading zero, so (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Pezzi arancioni su ebay
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So che gli appassionati di autobus sono perennemente in cerca di parti di colore arancione: ci sono alcune aste su ebay che potrebbero interessarvi: (URL) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug.market)
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There are a number of cities incorporated into the photos in this thread, many of them inspiring, though. NOTE: *** there are quite a few curse words in the threads of the page linked. *** There is actually a bright blue building in there as well. (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.town)
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(...) I think the drug of choice is meth in Indiana: (URL) 5. And yet, your still king of the MUPpet's? I for one... Calum (20 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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