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| | | I am sorry to have missed you we had some things to do in the morning that took to much time. We still made it down to the show and I to was very unimpressed with it. I think a Lego layout would be perfect. The only scale close to Lego was not very (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.us.mo)
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| | | | | Re: Gats in St. Louis —Robert W. Green
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| | | | (...) At least I got to ride metrolink for the first time. I never really had a reason to until now. (grin) The O gauge layout they had set up (in my opinion) was rather poor. I don't belive that it made any grade changes whatsoever, along with no (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.us.mo)
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| | | | | | Re: Gats in St. Louis —Levering A. Reynolds
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| | | | (...) Agreed (...) to (...) I like this idea a lot it would promote the layout better at a 3-foot height. PNLTC has this to say about tables with directions on how to build, (URL) . They mention a table holding 9 32 x 32 baseplates witch is the same (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.us.mo)
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| | | | | | Re: Gats in St. Louis —Robert W. Green
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| | | | (...) The only real difference is clearances on tunnels and that sort of thing. (no point in tearing up a whole section to move a row of bricks by one stud. I havn't looked at that table page in awhile, I guess I need to take a look at it again. My (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.us.mo)
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| | | | | | Re: Gats in St. Louis —Levering A. Reynolds
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| | | | (...) Deffinetly 8 or even 10 studs for tunnels (...) to (...) I think we can modify the table with support underneath to carry any weight. I have been trying to find another show ether GATS or something else, Toy show etc. I think if we could have (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.us.mo)
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| | | | | | Re: Gats in St. Louis —John DiRienzo
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| | | | Levering A. Reynolds wrote in message ... (...) (no (...) I haven't built anything in 8 wide yet, but that doesn't matter, since I want to build new stuff for this project anyway. You guys can decide about the scaling, just let me know. Maybe we (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.us.mo)
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| | | | | | Re: Gats in St. Louis —Robert W. Green
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| | | | (...) Either one works for me. I began my acent from my dark ages about a year and a half ago, and just got interested in trains about 6 months ago. I havn't made up any decent MOC's yet. (I'm still waiting to get a new place for my collection. I (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.us.mo)
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| | | | | | Re: Gats in St. Louis —Levering A. Reynolds
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| | | | | (...) suprised. (...) June (...) I like this too. I think it would bring new members. And I don’t think we need to big of a layout right a way it might be better to start small and work our way up. (...) module. (...) suprised (...) This sounds like (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.us.mo)
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| | | | | | Re: Gats in St. Louis —John DiRienzo
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| | | | Wayne Green wrote in message ... (...) thing. (...) I (...) about (...) year (...) havn't (...) build (...) Well, we'll need to figure that out. I am good with the idea of starting over, I don't have many Trains built right now. I would like to buy (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.us.mo)
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| | | | | | Re: Gats in St. Louis —Levering A. Reynolds
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| | | | (...) Although I have not a lot of train track, I do have a good amount. (...) I think summer is a good shooting point. (...) I was thinking 10 x 10 to start or the equivalent Lego scale. (...) There is no reason why we can’t do multi theme areas. (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.us.mo)
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| | | | | | Re: Gats in St. Louis —Robert W. Green
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| | | | (...) Grin. I switched to town from castle as well. I figured I could only build so many castles. And I have always liked trains. I agree that scaling the whole thing to 8 wide trains (and therefore, 6 wide cars, ect) will involve a lot more work, I (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.us.mo)
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| | | | | | Club talk (was Gats) —John DiRienzo
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| | | | (...) scaling (...) involve (...) long as (...) figure (...) long, 12 (...) town (...) high (...) OK, I agree. Try to provide for 8 wide. I hope, too, that our MOCs are better than Lego's designs. I'd be embarrassed if they aren't. Perhaps I was (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.us.mo)
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| | | | | | Re: Club talk (was Gats) —Robert W. Green
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| | | | (...) I can finish the demo one that I have built and bring it when we meet. (...) Uhhhhhh... A LEGO site, trust me. :) It worked yesterday, sigh. Perhaps they are having server problems or something. That should have been the GMTLUC (or whatever) (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.us.mo)
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| | | | | | Re: Club talk (was Gats) —Levering A. Reynolds
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| | | | (...) I think it is down, I tried to get to it all day. (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.us.mo)
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