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Link to the Brickshelf Folder: (URL) to my Lugnet LEGO Page about this event: (URL) hope you enjoy these pics, and that they provide a complimentary view on what others (Dave, Pics; Calum, Video) have already posted or will post later on. Thanks, (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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| | ___Calum + Wit = Funny___
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Calum + Wit = Funny ¯¯¯...¯¯¯ rtlToronto T1: Check back for more photos! Photos were taken by a number of people… with pinhole cameras made with shoeboxes! rtlToronto T2: Check back for more photos! Images … done with a box of 64 Crayola crayons, (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Swap-a-Bot Program.
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Inspired by Breakfast television, and the events that it has spawned I would like to implement a new program at rtlToronto.org Its called Swap-a-Bot. The premise is simple. One of the reason we do the regular contests is so that we can see how (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: rtlTrain4 Pictures from an obsolete DC120...
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(...) The layout looked good on its own! (imho) :) I'm very happy with my camera--I fergot the smileys--I've had the DC120 for 5 years now and at 8600 pics, it's still going strong (though note to self--ceramic floor and a fall from 4 feet high is (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: rtlTrain4 Pictures from an obsolete DC120...
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Nice work, Dave. Your shots are really quite good - don't worry about the camera. All the lower res means is that I don't have to scroll to see the other 90% of the piccy. You managed to make the layout look good :) Jeff E (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | rtlToronto show pics (was Re: Oops, fergot to post to .trains--rookie mistake :)
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(...) So what's the story behind all the containers in the bay? Something about the container crane going crazy, or was that some sort of "hey mister" activity or ?? (23 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | rtlTrain4 Pictures from an obsolete DC120...
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But it's mine and is paid for, so forgive the 1 megapixel... (URL) a boo--it was a good time! Tell me what you think.... Dave K (23 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: train4 Video
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(...) Thanks, that helps a lot! Cool mechanism. (...) It's prototypical to have a cable driven thingie to shift cars around a bit on a siding so if these cars are just for show, that would work. (Count rotations?) Put the siding on a slant so the (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: train4 Video
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(...) Yup. We mounted a single magnet inside the container at the top, and place 1x4 tiles above it. The crane utilized a second magnet, and the lift cables were actually a loop of chainlink belts. If both sides of the chain were driven (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: train4 Video
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(...) I SO want to see that video (I'm at work where mpeg's are blocked..) Oh well I only have 3 hours left at work! As for the crane, Yes magnets were used to pick up the containers. It worked quite well, when it worked. Only twice did it drop it (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: [rtlToronto] Watch Chris and Calum make fools of themselves
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(...) Yes it did (URL) downloaded it last night, It was quite huge(74 meg) but it was worth it) I can burn it if some one wants it... :) Way to go Steve! (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: train4 Video
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(...) It's a CG crane. It was all done in post. :-) Derek (23 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: train4 Video
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(...) Way cool! Well worth the download. Can anyone post more details about the container crane? (around 00:56 footagewise) Is that a magnet or something else picking up the container? (23 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: [rtlToronto] Watch Chris and Calum make fools of themselves
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(...) I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and blame the time of day.... but still. your normally a very well spoken media relations person for rtlToronto. When you started to tell the producer off camera that it took 37 hours of nortel time to (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: train4 Video
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(...) Try saving it to your hard drive (right-click the link, hit Save As..."). (...) Not really, a couple of hours... Iain (23 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: train4 Video
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"Calum Tsang" <tsangc@mie.utoronto.ca> wrote in message news:H8zs2F.DG8@lugnet.com... (...) train4 (...) jerky. (...) vibration (...) Great movie! Iain will be admiring this one. -- Bob Fay (URL) (23 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: train4 Video
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(...) I got to see a portion of it...like the first 3/8ths of it before my explorer window (crappy XP) started going funny. From what I seen of it, it was quite excellent despite not getting the camera mounted on a camera car, nor taking a lot of (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: [rtlToronto] Watch Chris and Calum make fools of themselves
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(...) Thanks Mario and Allan! Before the show, the head producer asked how we met, and I said, over the Internet, etc etc etc. Somewhere along the way, I quipped, "And he said he was a good looking girl! What a lie!" The guy then said "That's (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: [rtlToronto] Watch Chris and Calum make fools of themselves
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I too have to say congrats...even though I couldn't watch it... don't have cable and don't have a strong enough antenna from where I am to get it. <sigh> ...its not like I watch that much TV anyways. :) Wow...that is quite a bit of exposure in the (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | rtlTrain4 - Couldn't post Sat night...
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Well, let me be the first to post after the event, and let me begin by saying... I had a Great time!!! Derek's modules were just inspiring--the detail in the buildings, the roads and stuff, even right down to the custom built table that held up the (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: [rtlToronto] Watch Chris and Calum make fools of themselves
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(...) Thank you. WOW, we brought a TON of stuff, and in the end the producers just picked one or two items. once the Camera goes live it gets "weird" (for me at least) when we all gather for dinner we can regal you all with the tales of things you (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: [rtlToronto] Watch Chris and Calum make fools of themselves
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(...) Chris, Calum, I thought you guys did extremely well, given the limited amount of time and table space you were given. It's kind of too bad they couldn't have booked 'gadget guy' for another day... and given some of his lengthy spot to you. It (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: [rtlToronto] Watch Chris and Calum make fools of themselves
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(...) Well I just saw it live... very nice job guys. Congratulations! Mario (23 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: train4 Video
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Wow, Calum! We *were* only kidding when we said you had to be done before Monday. Tuesday would have been fine... I especially like the closing shot from inside your station. When we set the layout up again, we need to have some photo op time with (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | train4 Video
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I put together a short clip of some of the trains running around the train4 layout: (URL) mostly just trains driving around-the onboard footage was REALLY jerky. (ie, jerky enough to cause data errors on the tape-probably due to vibration from the (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | [rtlToronto] Watch Chris and Calum make fools of themselves
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Hey folks, For those of you in the Toronto/Ottawa/Ontario area with access to CHUMcity stations like the Pulse24, NewVR, CityTV, the NewRO (we think), we'll be making an appearance on BreakfastTV, a regional early morning television show, tomorrow (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: if I'm late.
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(...) WHAT a Glorious day. for the first time in a while I've had more then 4 hours sleep in a row. I can leisurely make my way to another RTLToronto event. (sigh) :) Chris (23 years ago, 18-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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You'll know why now. Goddamned trains :) Calum (23 years ago, 18-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Saturday
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 If anyone needs: 3084 8466 4x4 offroad 4107 1 empty 4107 tub or 3432 NBA please contact me offlist. I will be by Saturday afternoon. Angelo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Oh I'm tired...
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I could just put my head on my desk and fall asleep right now... Dunno if I'm gonna make it to 5 p.m., and then the ride into the Big Smoke. Oh well... 70 more minutes... Stay awake Dave. Maybe I'll go out to my truck and haul in a few train cars... (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: bridges, flags, and pipe racers.....
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(...) your right, some of these are very cool looking. (...) this is probably VERY true. our idea of a bridge game evolved from the 2 things... the recent (then) junk yard wars episode of bridge building, and because we don't do anything half a$$ed, (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Have Fun
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Hey guys, Hope you all get some sleep tonight and have a great time tomorrow! Relax, enjoy, take lots of pictures. :) Off to the windy city... Iain (23 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: bridges, flags, and pipe racers.....
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(...) Hey, I'm here...and i'll be there. I got your e-mail, thanx! See you then, --==Richard==-- (23 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | bridges, flags, and pipe racers.....
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So I found this website, and saw some amazing similarities to some of our recent competitions. rtl11: A brick too far, ie. bridge building (URL) by capture the "flag": (URL) the proposed rtl14: pipe racers: (URL) you click the "5012" link beside the (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Request for some parts for Saturdays show
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(...) nod, John is brining all of it... but It may be a good idea to have extra wires et al, incase we need to extensions... (...) Lucky.... I'm thinking of taking tommorow morning off, I have meetings in the afternoon... (...) :) Building before (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Request for some parts for Saturdays show
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(...) I'll give Chris mine tonight, you might have to mod it slightly for your cam but it shouldn't be too much. Iain (23 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Request for some parts for Saturdays show
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I built an impromptu car for it at our get-together in August. I went with an 8x24 *baseplate* as the bottom of the car; I was able to reinforce it with a technic beam along either edge. It rested on the tracks - gave a slightly bumpy view of the (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) <snip> (...) ' (...) e (...) ) (...) ) (...) Egad! We need cameras! I didn't sweat bullets to build camera clearance in, only to be foiled by NCC! Jeff E (Whose video camera car would look like a russian Soyuz transporter - 2 tracks and all.) (23 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Request for some parts for Saturdays show
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I can bring the motor and wire; as you know, I lack the liftarms. I'm trying not to stay up all night, because I want to be somewhat together on Saturday. I did take two days off this week to try and catch up. My fingertips are shredded - I've worn (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Request for some parts for Saturdays show
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(...) (URL) got to be low to the track (ie, lower than the club car train plate) AND leave the camera under 15 bricks. Also, has to be only at most 8 wide. Note the viewfinder sticks up a bit. This is very hard without the actual camera in your (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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