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| (...) My favorite locomotive is Green Mountain Railroad's #405, an old Alco RS1 that used to belong to the Rutland Railroad. It doesn't have a particularly nice livery (it's green with a yellow stripe), and it's not particularly nice to look at (...) (13 years ago, 28-Oct-11, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Besides replacing the old style half bushings [LDrawPart 4265a:7] 4265a Technic Bush 1/2 Type I with the new ones [LDrawPart 4265c:7] 4265c Technic Bush 1/2 Type III the only major change is the way you manually turn the pulley wheels. In the (...) (21 years ago, 20-Oct-03, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| (...) link (...) They may come visit, but their MY dragons ;) You'll have to build your own ;) (...) and to think the whiskers were after thoughts... (...) Anthony was actually just rushing through the photo shoot ;) (...) I think so too, though I (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| Here is a rough transcription from Brad's talk at LegoWorld 2003 on Saturday evening. Sorry it took me a couple of days to get net access (we're dialed in from the ldraw.org booth on the show floor at last... long story, the fast connection did not (...) (21 years ago, 20-Oct-03, to lugnet.events.legoworld) !!
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| (...) Some of the modifications I made was to fix some of the friction issues on the front and back trucks of the engine. When powered by the drive wheels with a Power Functions XL motor they are not that big of an issue. When the whole engine is (...) (13 years ago, 27-Oct-11, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| What's your favorite locomotive and livery, and have you made a LEGO version? Mine would be an EMD SD40-2 in UP livery. I made a 7 wide version 10 years ago. Wish I could find the photos. Which is funny, because of two things. Growing up in the (...) (13 years ago, 27-Oct-11, to lugnet.trains)
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| Hi all It is funny to think, that as a child there were only a few sets I did not get in certain series which I collected. Now, here they (almost) are: (URL) choose to collect the parts from BL and build the sets rather than buy them ready. It is (...) (13 years ago, 2-Oct-11, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| "Why did LEGO move to battery operated trains?" I thought it was because EU regulations state that "trains that pick up from the track are not recommended for children under eight years old." It is all to do with Health & Safety - Playmobil made the (...) (13 years ago, 21-Oct-11, to lugnet.trains)
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| Funny thing, I noticed this thread as I was looking for a newsgroup to post this to. Forgive me if this doesn't come up as a followup - the LUGNET posting system doesn't like me for some reason, so I have to do everything by email. Well, here's your (...) (21 years ago, 16-Oct-03, to lugnet.general)
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| The House of Hobbit Bilbo Since the pictures hit the internet I've been working on building this model for myself. I'm still looking for parts that match the colours of the preliminary LEGO set, and as you can see, I've come up with a red/tan (...) (12 years ago, 5-Sep-12, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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| (...) Thanks John. I've had most of the poems for a while now sitting in my PC. Back in high school 90-94 I went thru a period of artistic expression picking up drawing, oil painiting, poetry, clay modeling and some other crafts to express my (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) So how goes it?? We have all the sets ready to fly. Let me know your plans!!! We scored a life size Spiderman last week, it should hit in about 1-2 weeks at the museum. We also began spring cleaning, place is looking NICE!!! Space room is (...) (17 years ago, 20-Mar-08, to lugnet.org.us.pennlug)
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| (...) So how goes it?? We have all the sets ready to fly. Let me know your plans!!! We scored a life size Spiderman last week, it should hit in about 1-2 weeks at the museum. We also began spring cleaning, place is looking NICE!!! Space room is (...) (17 years ago, 20-Mar-08, to lugnet.org.us.pennlug)
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| Hi all, those who would like to follow our new project, please go to www.convict.lu/Jeune...sIntro.htm and follow the "Casemates project blog". The idea is to design and program a robot that can navigate through the casemates, which are sorts of (...) (13 years ago, 11-Oct-11, to lugnet.robotics)
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| From the Walmart flyer, good from Friday October 14 through Thursday October 20. 7553 LEGO City Advent Calendar $37.44. It is normally $39.99 from LEGO. ---...--- No TRU flyer this week online, but I assume it is week three of Bricktober. (free (...) (13 years ago, 13-Oct-11, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| (...) We have some of that here in Edmonton, Canada. I think 3 of our members have DCC rigs, and more have DCC-modified trains. The mainlines on our train layouts have been DCC for several years - we use the old 9V analog stuff for independent (...) (13 years ago, 12-Oct-11, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Hi Matt, welcome (back) in the zombie group.... :-) I have just tested a couple of waggons (10 new + 5 old to be exactely) for magnet power: when pulling apart a train of waggons equipped with different magnet systems I find no clear answer: (...) (13 years ago, 19-Sep-11, to lugnet.trains)
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