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Re: Lucnyville---The Story of a city that could
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Thu, 11 Apr 2002 02:11:51 GMT
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In lugnet.org.us.lucny, Ed McGlynn writes:
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> It's not shown in your pics, but there's one of the last existing Marconi
> towers to the right of the train station that I'd love to model in LEGO too,
> partly because it's so easy, and partly because it makes people ask "what's
> a Marconi tower?" Hmm - glad you asked - Marconi set up demo sites for
> train companies for his new wireless radio transmissions to compete with
> telegraph, and one of those sites was the Binghamton train station. That
> would be cool on a club layout.
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> Thanks,
> Ed
Ed et All,
When I said in some thread back (don't have time as I'm babysitting and
holding up the phone line) that local color and history brings a layout to
life. This is a perfect example. I'd love to see this Marconi Tower in
Bricks. :) This may be a good project for our next meeting. Design and
build a landmark from your area. Could get really interesting. :)
Anyways, Got To Go,
-John "I've got dibs on the Monument in Clinton Square" Rudy
www.geocities.com/tjjohn12
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| Yeah, great idea, but I'm not even going to attempt Utica's gold dome bank ;) Perhaps I can do the train yard where they stash all the old crashed train cars and wagons. Give me a place to put all my rolling stock experiments which didn't quite work (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.us.lucny)
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| (...) curved side should be a challenge too... ...and I better start modeling older houses so your employees can live there! It's not shown in your pics, but there's one of the last existing Marconi towers to the right of the train station that I'd (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.us.lucny)
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