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Hello everyone, After about two months of work, I figured I'd go ahead and post my monorail stuff. I've been trying to assemble a monorail that uses no monorail parts. Unfortunately, it hasn't met with much sucess. Design #1: (URL) one seems to work (...) (23 years ago, 16-Mar-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| | Re: MichLTC to display at Curious Kids' Museum - St. Joseph, MI
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(...) Oops maybe the url would be helpful. (1) (URL) the main Curious Kids' Museum Page: (URL) Spears MichLTC/MichLUG (URL) (23 years ago, 14-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| | MichLTC to display at Curious Kids' Museum - St. Joseph, MI
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Short notice, I know, but we only found out for sure this afternoon. MichLTC will be presenting a modest 12' x 6' layout. This will take place during the Curious Kids' Museum LEGO CONTEST! (More information on this can be found at the bottom of this (...) (23 years ago, 14-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.org)
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| | March Meeting Report Up
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The March Meeting Report is now up on the website. A full debrief of the meeting, along with pictures of a couple of great creations. (URL) Spears MichLUG - (URL) Page - (URL) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.loc.us.mi)
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| | Chicago Elevated
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This hasn't been mentioned yet, I don't think (URL) other pics near it) show a prototype that David Kohrman has been developing for some Chicago Elevated track and cars. This came out really neat! The cars have the Chicago look, although they're a (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.michlug) !!
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| | March 1st meeting pics, also update on Brickshelf
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Great meeting everyone! My brickshelf pics from the meeting are public: (URL) The elevated train is Davids - The white and smaller black spaceships are stefans - The larger black shipand modified 4x4 are Andrews I have several of my sons mocs (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| | N de M QR-1
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Howdy y'all! My latest, and, IMO, greatest engine has finally been photographed. It's a Níagara-class 4-8-4 dual service engine, owned by the Mexican National Railways. There's prototype pics at the bottom. On the details side, there are (...) (23 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.announce.moc) !
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| | MichLUG Meeting on March 1st
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Agenda: Show off MOCs and talk about general club business Time: From Noon till ~1:30: Club Business (Club Members Only) From ~1:30 till ~5:00: Open Discussion and MOC sharing (Guests Welcome) Directions: to Rick's Church: 2931 West Herbison Road, (...) (23 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.loc.us.mi)
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| | Wrap-Up - MichLTC Display - January 25-26th, 2003 Novi Expo Center - Novi, Michigan
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To All, MichLTC’s third display in three years at the Great American Train Show (GATS) in Novi, Michigan, at the Novi Expo Center, on Saturday January 25th & 26th was a great show! With a huge layout, a kids building table, numerous train loops, and (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.us.michlug) !!
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| | New MOC, Kalamazoo County Courthouse
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I unveiled my newest MOC at last weekend's MichTLC GATS layout, the Kalamazoo County Courthouse. It is based on a now demolished 1880s building that once stood on Bronson Park in downtown Kzoo. My main Brickshelf gallery isn't moderated just yet but (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town) !!
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| | Re: MichLTC to display at Great American Train Show
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In lugnet.org.us.michlug, Jason Spears writes: <snip> It was a pretty good show! We had 9 trains/monorails running at the same time throughout much of the show. Paul Janssen's mountain/church was the hit of the show, I would say. A non LEGO(r) (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| | MichLTC to display at Great American Train Show
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MichLTC will be presenting a 20' x 40' layout with 5 independent loops. Our large building table with thousands of bricks will be there for all to play with. (Bricks must stay at the show.) Kids will be encouraged to build and then run a train car. (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.events, lugnet.org)
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| | MichLTC upcoming show mentioned on lego.com website
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For the news page: (URL) the news item itself: (URL) will need to log in to the club first (23 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Sumo-bot Four scheduled and new official rules posted.
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You have been challenged to a sumo-bot wrestling match that will occur on Saturday, January 25th., 2003 at 2:00 PM. The location for this event will be in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The official sumo-bot rules have been updated to reflect recent (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.us.lrgoaa, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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| | Re: MichLTC Show Report from Toy & Hobby Expo 2002
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It doesn't look like I'll be able to go to GATS. Ugh. Amy (23 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| | Re: MichLTC Show Report from Toy & Hobby Expo 2002
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(...) Stefan, Thanks. No I haven't always had the layout image as part of the report. It is something I have been wanting to get in there, but never really got around to doing. Larry reminded me this time, and was very prompt in getting me the (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| | Re: MichLTC Show Report from Toy & Hobby Expo 2002
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Nice report, Jason! I like the direct link to the layout image. Have you always had that? Very informative. -Stefan- (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: MichLTC Show Report from Toy & Hobby Expo 2002
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(...) Well the layout plan was Larry's, but obviously it was the hard work and great creations of our members that made it nice. The show report is my doing, I had started on the html version of the show reports a few months back, but this one I (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| | Re: MichLTC Show Report from Toy & Hobby Expo 2002
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(...) Another great-looking layout, and the show report also looks good. I need to get to one of these shows. How did the crowd compare in age/enthusiasm/size to the GATS shows? Amy (24 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| | MichLTC Show Report from Toy & Hobby Expo 2002
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MichLTC had another great show the weekend of Dec 27-29, at the Toy & Hobby Expo 2002. It was in the Novi Expo Center in Novi, MI. It was our first 3 day show and it went off great. We had a 20'x20' display featuring Larry P's mountain, Ken K's (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.announce, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains) !!
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