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| | | As Christina mentioned, Tom Cook and I will be hosting/coordinating the train room at Brickfest. Tom and I are leaning toward the idea of a layout that we can take our time constructing and enjoy the process. We're encouraging a free-form layout (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: Trains at BrickFest —Frank Filz
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| | | | | (...) Of course 4.5v can run on any track... I'll be bringing some 12v and 4.5v (7735, 7720, a 7715 constructed from my parts bin, a 7719 constructed from my parts bin, and a 7740/7715/7719 styled club car). I will probably bring a small bit of blue (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | | | | Re: Trains at BrickFest —Christopher Tracey
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| | | | | (...) Greg, Is the layout going to be 8wide compatible? Also, of the train people coming to brickfest, is there anyone who models 8wide trains(1)? -chris 1- not implying 6widers are not as good as 8widers by any means. (23 years ago, 30-Jun-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | | | | | | Re: Trains at BrickFest —Stephen F. Roberts
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| | | | | | | (...) ...I was talking to Rich this weekend. he's going to be bringing his giant mountain tunnel MOC. Its 8wide compatible through the strait-aways, but on the corners he says its barely 6wide compatible :-) ...In either case (not to speak for the (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Trains at BrickFest —Jake McKee
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| | | | | | | | (...) I am playing with a way to mount my video camera to a car so we can film the view from the cab, so to speak, a la rtlToronto. I *loved* what they did and would like to see if we can re-create the effect. The problem with that is the 15 high (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Trains at BrickFest —Rolf Redford
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| | | | | | | | ebay has lots of those "spy" camera thats very small. you can mount em anywhere. heh will be good to see such videos like driver's view of legos tracks. -- And they said 'Computers will never be in general use' "Jake McKee" <sink@countersinkdg.com> (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Trains at BrickFest —Daniel Staudt
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| | | | | | | | exactly what i plan to do once i have the *gasp* budget for it to go along with my fish tank car "Rolf" <rolf.spamlovesyou.r...fords.net> wrote in news:GFuuFu.87q@lugnet.com: (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jul-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | | | | | | Re: Trains at BrickFest —Greg Kramer
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| | | | | | I responded to Chris privately, but missed this public post: (...) Since we are creating the layout during the 'fest itself, we should be able to accomodate 8-widers with no problem. There may be some routes around the room that can only accomodate (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | | | | Re: Rail Racers (was:Trains at BrickFest) —James Trobaugh
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| | | | Greg & Tom, I pretty much have the Rail Racers system ready to go for the fest. I don't if an area has been layout for the them yet. The drag strip will pretty much take a space of about 4'x 20', so I don't know if the plan is to keep it in the (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jul-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | | | | | Re: Rail Racers (was:Trains at BrickFest) —Stephen F. Roberts
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| | | | (...) ...Does it need a table or can it run on the floor? And do you need any spare parts (other engines, any special pieces that cant normally be found in random piles... that kind of thing)? --- wubwub wubwub@wildlink.com www.sitcatsit.com <-- a (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jul-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | | | | | Re: Rail Racers (was:Trains at BrickFest) —James Trobaugh
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| | | | (...) It can run on a table or the floor, of course a table makes it more comfortable, but no need to waste good layout space for it. I will be bringing everything needed for the race track(track, controls, computer, ext cords), plus a couple of my (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jul-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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