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Suz, My Lego FD has SUV type vehicles for six of its seven chiefs (6643 style). One has a sedan. The San Francisco Fire Department uses big Expeditions for their battalion chiefs. The higher chiefs like the division and assitant chiefs have (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.town)
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Hi all, my lego cheifs drive around in sporty wagons. while the real ones where i live (Queensland, Australia) get around in sedans Aaron "Suzanne Rich" <suz@baseplate.com> wrote in message news:H6nzvz.Go8@lugnet.com... (...) here. (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.town)
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My Chief's still drive the old reliable Chevrolego Malibrick, but may soon be replaced with SUV's. All the real departments around here seem to be driving them now anyways. Tom D (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Hi Suz, My chief is chauffered around in this squad vehicle. (URL) is equipped with tools and such. It is a few years old and may get an overhaul soon, but it will remain the same type of vehicle. Here in NYC, Battalion Chiefs are chauffered (...) (22 years ago, 5-Dec-02, to lugnet.town)
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I looked through some AFOLs' FD MOCs to answer this question for myself. (The concensus seems to be: SUVs, over the traditional red car.) But there are *so* many FD sites (!), I thought I'd just ask the question here. The reason I ask is, my brother (...) (22 years ago, 5-Dec-02, to lugnet.town)
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This is a fun little diorama I did of my crazy family, but their LEGO version. (URL) a sneak pic: (URL) christmas tree is an adapted version of a new set.. i think it is 10069 or something like that. It is cute, cheap, and an excellent source of (...) (22 years ago, 5-Dec-02, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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This is my second LEGO train model, a modern light rail vehicle (LRV). It is inspired loosely by the new vehicles that have recently entered service for the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) in Santa Clara County, CA. Like the VTA (...) (22 years ago, 3-Dec-02, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.build) !!
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Dear fellow AFOLs! I have added a few new models to my pages: (URL) the link on the front pages og see "creations" Now, maybe someone could help me with the text for the manor house before I add it to the ISCC. My problem is that I cannot describe (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: The "return" of Town in 2003
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James Stacey wrote in message ... (...) I had a lot of Britains farm machinery when I was a kid too, although it has long gone, who knows where. I loved it at the time and played with it a lot. They are still producing it, too, right? There are a (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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Here is a small train station I built for a layout under our Christmas tree. (URL) the small space available, it had to be significantly more compressed than my usual MOC's and there was no room for interior details. However, I did include a front (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build) !
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Steven lane" <steveroblane@aol.com> wrote in message news:H6Cq0B.EM0@lugnet.com... (...) a (...) every (...) them (...) hubs (...) I still have a large Britains farm set in the roof. It seems odd Lego have never really done much (outside Duplo) (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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(...) I agree. Even if there were farming sets for Town, I suppose they'd enjoy great acceptance. I would surely buy some - and I'm a city-boy, not a farmer :-) I do recall going to the UK once and noticing that there were a number of farming toys (...) (22 years ago, 1-Dec-02, to lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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(...) Yes, they do. The tractor was my first technic set, and my third all-time favourite, behind the space shuttle and the 8860 car chassis (my second technic set). ROSCO (22 years ago, 1-Dec-02, to lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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(...) ITTTAPG! (I think that they are pretty good!) I love the arch detail on the fire station, and the ornate detailing on the old bank captures gold rush extravagance. NB: There has been some discussion about how slow Brickshelf is of late. Your (...) (22 years ago, 1-Dec-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town)
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(...) connectors to put snotwise detail on vertical surfaces. Just gorgeous. In terms of images, I definitely favour smaller files and faster load times in my own images, aiming for a 50k max (alright, maybe a 60k absolute max) and I keep upping the (...) (22 years ago, 1-Dec-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town)
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I have finally got around to putting up some images of two historic facades I have done recently: (URL) in a magnificent display of patience waited until the brickshelf folder was moderated before posting this message, so no need to post deep links (...) (22 years ago, 1-Dec-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town) !!
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(...) So, be welcome to join us. You'll see that even if many are writing in the Shakespeare language, many are non english native. Do you have some pictures of your town, it's always interesting to see what others are doing. And sometimes it gives (...) (22 years ago, 1-Dec-02, to lugnet.town)
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(...) There are certainly less farmers. The FFA has renamed itself to, well, FFA, and dropped Future Farmers of America. In a typical club nobody will actually grow up to farm--much like Boy Scouts won't actually need to survive in the wilderness. (...) (22 years ago, 30-Nov-02, to lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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(...) I didn't say they _are_ boring. I said that I used to _think_ they were boring. Back when I was a kid. That was just a childhood memory talking. That's why I asked the question about today's kids. Sure, I think they're interesting now, but do (...) (22 years ago, 30-Nov-02, to lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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(...) No, but they say nothing about what the effective upper limit for a TLC set would be. Other than some very one of a kind specials, TLC isn't going to be interested in a trying to market a set with an audience of less than 100. Frank (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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