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 | | Re: Remote Switches & GMLTC main lines
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| (...) Mike, it depends. Are you a lego purist? (...) Space to protect LEGO purists (...) If you are not a lego purist, then open up the back of the point and hack off the tab. I know that there is at least 2 web pages with descriptions of the (...) (25 years ago, 26-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Transporting large setups.
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| PNLTC, I think, tears down and builds anew for each show (but they're on tables, except for a module or two) GMLTC has a custom trailer that takes custom racks mounted on large casters. The modules ride on custom lipped tables with folding legs and (...) (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Hardest Piece to remove? Final Answer
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| That's my vote too. There just is NOTHING to grip. and if you are not careful you can bend or break the antenna or the housing, it's a pretty fragile part. Plates can always be gotten off with those gray things, you know, the things you use to take (...) (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LEGO trains...The Future of Model Railroading?
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| (...) I'm sensing a little hostility here... (...) Well, no, I don't believe I said using decals is totally wrong. I just said that one cannot make the argument that one is totally pure if one uses them. This hobby, when we are considering it (...) (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: CFD: Subgroups for lugnet.org.us & lugnet.trains.org
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| (...) I'd say no. GMLTC still doesn't offically have one. It had a soft opening but... and it was in existence for years without having one, without having a name, even. (...) Again, no. GMLUG has never met. But it accomplishes good things in the (...) (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: LEGO trains...The Future of Model Railroading?
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| (...) <much good stuff snipped> (...) <more good stuff snipped> The GMLTC layout, if you haven't seen pictures yet, is about 13.5 feet by 19 feet. We estimate around 750,000 bricks. 175 or so feet of track, three different independent rail lines (...) (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LEGO trains...The Future of Model Railroading?
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| Jim Rorstrom wrote in message ... (...) junk. (...) a (...) at (...) the (...) Well, the cost depends very much on whether you require all the scenery to be LEGO pure. The GMLTC layout would be far more expensive to create than a similar quality HO (...) (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LEGO trains...The Future of Model Railroading?
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| (...) Sorry Frank Deeppockets Filz, (you always outbid me on eBay!) but there is at least one other who is making modules - me. I am trying to get people in California to have an LTC here, but have been too busy at work to really push it right now. (...) (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LEGO trains...The Future of Model Railroading?
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| I'm going to toss in a few more pennies out of my pocket, I am not a lego purist. I cut up lego to get it to fit. I use RS switches, and Tech 2 powerpacks. I use PVC pipe for Pnumatics. I have a battery box that has had major sugery done to it to (...) (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: More Questions from Another Train Newbie
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| (...) The track is flexible enough that you can adjust the alignment - and if you're trying to mount everything down to baseplates you're going to have to get creative in the corners anyway... John1, GMLTC (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LEGO trains...The Future of Model Railroading?
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| (...) I disagree. We are all here because we enjoy LEGO. Trains just happens to be one theme in the LEGO family. Why should we rush out and bring in non-LEGO material? For instance, I hear plenty of grumbling in .SW about the lack of blasters, but (...) (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | CFD: Subgroups for lugnet.org.us & lugnet.trains.org
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| Watching the recent discussions in lugnet.org and lugnet.org.us has been a lot of fun. The groups are serving their purpose well as venues for sharing ideas on formation and nurturing of regional user groups/clubs. But I think there is still much (...) (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.org, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp, lugnet.loc.us.dc, lugnet.loc.us.ut.slc, lugnet.loc.us.wa, lugnet.loc.us.ga)
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| | Re: LEGO trains...The Future of Model Railroading?
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| (...) What exactly did you have in mind? The president already told the GMLTC that what we were doing was just as valid as what anyone else was doing at the NMRA convention and personally invited all of us to join the org. (...) Very unique. In (...) (25 years ago, 22-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: More Questions from Another Train Newbie
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| (...) If you open one up, you'll see it's nothing that fancy. A loop of metal, perhaps magnetic, that the 9volt wire wraps around once. I'm guessing it has something to do with RF interference, but that's a complete guess... John1, GMLTC (25 years ago, 22-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LEGO trains...The Future of Model Railroading?
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| (...) The ones I met during my shifts at The Fair were more bemused at what we had accomplished. I talked extensively with one guy who had already decided to look into LEGO trains as a cheaper alternative to the Lionel he currently collects, and as (...) (25 years ago, 22-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | GMLTC at GATS in St. Paul
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| Hi, I was very happy to have had the opportunity to see the GMLTC setup in St. Paul. I only regret that my kids weren't with me to see it as well. I guess my biggest impression was not that their display had the biggest crowds, or the most comments, (...) (25 years ago, 15-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LEGO trains...The Future of Model Railroading?
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| (...) You are right. And that is only because we as AFOLs have decided that we will build with LEGO exclusively which, IMO, severely limits our bargaining power. They know we will keep coming back regardless of what they do. But that is *our* (...) (25 years ago, 22-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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