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(...) I would love to see a General Lee! There could also be some easy revenue for Lego if they get the set designed by August for the release of the new "The Dukes of Hazzard" film. Do you think the Confederate flag on top the car would pose a (...) (20 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.town)
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(...) If you have lots of spare 2x4 bricks, then you can use the same technique we used at the 2002 GETS show: (URL) does use *lots* of 2x4 brick, and a few others, and you have to be quite careful to not leave large fractures in the structure, but (...) (20 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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(...) Joe- At SCLTC, we build tunnels and subterranean structures by stacking tables on top of each other using short legs and knobs bolted to the tops of the underlying tables. We haved stacked as tables as high as 5 levels in one place when (...) (20 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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(...) Consider GMLTC lattice. Strong, light, made of common elements and modular in that it conforms to various heights well. XFUT lugnet.trains... a search with this string "GMLTC lattice" should find you a pic of it... (20 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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For my town I took the arches from the SAH site. Imagine looking at the baseplate. I placed two going north, one going east and west on the front and then depending on where they are in the tunnel I may have a total of 8 arches two in each (...) (20 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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We're thinking about raising up half of our town, so that we can have the train run into a tunnel and be a subway train on the elevated half and a surface train on the other half (with the two halves joined by a hill). This will also allow us to (...) (20 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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(...) For the next batch of possible fake LEGO sets featuring cars from popular entertainment, I nominate the following: -- Orange Dodge Charger "General Lee" -- 1959 Cadillac Ambulance "Ghostbusters" car -- 1958 Red Plymouth Fury from movie (...) (20 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.town)
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Thomas has posted the first 127 photos of the May 7-8 SCLTC show at Fullerton Railroad Days at (URL). Here's some samples. (4 URLs) If you missed the chance to see the show in person, good news! The entire show, plus more, will also be at the 2005 (...) (20 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.town, FTX) !!
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"Larry Pieniazek" <larry.(mylastname)@...e.DOT.com> wrote in message news:IGAMnG.21G6@lugnet.com... (...) worse (...) I agree wholeheartedly. While the color changes annoys me, I have moved on. The proliferation of click hinges bugs me though (...) (20 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Me either. I am guessing this won't get ME any new fans, but I think this change is worse than the gray/bley color change, actually. (20 years ago, 10-May-05, to lugnet.town)
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