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| Say whaaa? (...) (25 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| (...) Mebbe. Fait accompli may be better though. PS, (to all) don't EVER walk out on an ore dock, it is a terminally stupid think to do. Very dangerous. ++Lar (25 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| snip> (...) Never doubted you for a sec ;) (...) I stand corrupted :) (...) I was working on a 16 ore car, it would look good either way, whatever design has the most obtainable parts. (...) GO right ahead, I have too much work with the ore dock, (...) (25 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| (...) I went to Da Tech... I don't forget what ore docks or jennies look like. (...) I've NEVER seen a white ore boat. Taconite dust would turn it pink in a NY minute. (...) Not saying the chutes have to line up with the jenny bay openings, just (...) (25 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| Dave! & All, (...) NO, no, no! No eavesdropping!!! (J/K) (...) No apologies necessary. : ) Scott S. -- (25 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| (...) They should be black or brown (canadian national colors *i think*). I have seen some other colors. I was hoping our friend to the north, Josh Baakko, could give us some insight on what he sees at Marquette and the surrounding area. (...) It (...) (25 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| (...) I saw some discussion Amy's church and decided to eavesdrop. (...) My apologies--I didn't mean to seem like I was chewing you out about it. Dave! (25 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| (...) Silly boy, I only go in churches for weddings and funereals. We're both married already, thanks, and I have no plans of attending anything else. :-) But ya, that would be neat. (25 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| Dave & All, What are you doing in MichLUG Dave!? ; ) (...) I never said you could not, I just offered my observations on debate to the audience, as it was, in light of what happened last week. People from MichLUG can attest to that before, and my (...) (25 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| More ore dock thoughts. If this goes forward, we will need a lot of essentially identical small ore jennies (slang for what the small hoppers are called). Although the prototype hoppers are 4 axle, they are very short and a 2 axle design may be the (...) (25 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| (...) In fairness, though--the religious debate arose out of a question regarding the tragedy. If one cannot discuss religion at such an ultimate moment, when should it be discussed? And anyway--I thought you didn't read OT.Debate anymore? 8^) (...) (...) (25 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| Amy & All, (...) We still don't have our TV hooked up, outside of movies and video games, but Lynn ordered Something today, so I get History Channel back at least. It's funny to see how endless cycles go in LUGNET, in pacticular, debate, it is back (...) (25 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| (...) I would say make a larger test segment before you draw that conclusion... (...) That's a good question and I would defer to the folks talking about the dropped section for the authoritative answer. IIRC when they said "22 bricks" they were (...) (25 years ago, 16-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| (...) I can stick with 2 tracks since that is what the one in Marquette has *I think* I also think one track won't look as good as two tracks. As for the grade, I wanted the track to come down to the ore dock from a hill like the one in Marquette, (...) (25 years ago, 16-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| (...) I can see two, although I would argue it will be plenty dominant with just 1. But 4 tracks is way too many. The throat will take up too much space. Remember, selective compression... Why do you want to widen it? Docks often have slight grades (...) (25 years ago, 16-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| (...) If it is too tall then I will shorten it due to the fact I want to be able to run my ore cars on there. But one thing for sure is that I am going to have to widen it to accommodate 2 or 4 tracks. (25 years ago, 16-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| (...) Looks pretty good Kai. One suggestion though, try saving the picture in a picture editor to decrease file size. 618K is a really big, a 6 min load for me at home. As far as specifications go, I think 27 bricks is already to high. I am pretty (...) (25 years ago, 16-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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