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(...) I was having traction issues with previous versions, but the added weigth of the finished trailers made it possible! So for you I built this test strip. I tried a few times before taking photos and it worked everytime! Corners were no problem (...) (22 years ago, 7-Apr-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Town scale Road Train with steering trailers
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(...) Play well, Jacob (22 years ago, 7-Apr-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.town)
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| | LEGO Cable-Stayed Bridge
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Hello, Here is a link to pics of the 30,000 piece cable-stayed bridge I built 7 years ago after the suspenson bridge. The first two pics show as it appeared in my basement. The remaining three pics show how it appeared in the front window of the (...) (22 years ago, 7-Apr-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.us.pa.phi.har, lugnet.loc.us.fl.tam, lugnet.loc.us.va.ric, lugnet.loc.us.de, lugnet.loc.us.fl.tam) !
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| | Re: 3 wheel car & monster truck
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(...) That's a great idea! (...) Best regards, /Tobbe (URL) SPAM when e-mailing) (22 years ago, 7-Apr-03, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Town scale Road Train with steering trailers
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(...) In Australia, I think B-double and triple usually refers to trains where each trailer has a fifth wheel on the back axle block. Road train generally refers to trailers with yoked front axle, similar to horse drawn carriages in the old wild (...) (22 years ago, 6-Apr-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: walled garden
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No wonder I've never seen it. Thanks for the info. -Stefan- (...) (22 years ago, 6-Apr-03, to lugnet.town)
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Cary, Looks great! I love to see large parks like this and I think that parks and greenery can really add to the feel of a town. I think my favorite part are the grey flower baskets hanging from the red archway. (part 2145) Nice work, -Kevin (...) (22 years ago, 6-Apr-03, to lugnet.town)
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E.g. this one (URL) Garcia <sastrei@netscape.net> wrote in message news:HCxs8o.17I3@lugnet.com... (...) a (...) (22 years ago, 6-Apr-03, to lugnet.town)
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Very cool. The lion sculpture/head/fountain(?) thingy is interesting. Where did that dog come from? I've never seen that piece before. -Stefan- (...) (22 years ago, 6-Apr-03, to lugnet.town)
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I recently acquired a few UCS Yodas (with Mike Walsh's help -- thanks, Mike!) and ended up with a bag of 2x2 corner plates in sand green. Here's a garden wall built with those plates: (URL) (22 years ago, 6-Apr-03, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Town scale Road Train with steering trailers
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"Gerard Steenbeek" <interdutch2000@hotmail.com> skrev i meddelandet news:HCvsA0.1zyL@lugnet.com... (...) Something like this is used in the 'trains' in amusement parks (and other places, we have one here in Eskilstuna driving from the station to the (...) (22 years ago, 6-Apr-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Town scale Road Train with steering trailers
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(...) connect (...) What I built is a B triple, those seem to be rare, more common are B doubles. (URL) that photo they have 2 B doubles together. In north america you sometimes see B doubles as well. Mine also pivots at the end of the trailers to (...) (22 years ago, 6-Apr-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Town scale Road Train with steering trailers
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(...) Hi Gerard That looks really interesting! I've never seen road trains with axles like that - all the ones i've seen just have a standard trailer first, and the following trailers have a steerable axle on the front with a yoke to connect to the (...) (22 years ago, 5-Apr-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.town)
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(...) mechanism (...) What I built is better than a convetional B double or triple. A B double or triple still cuts corners, but not as mush as a dolly setup. A B double or triple just eliminates a joint. I quiclky built a B double to make sure I (...) (22 years ago, 5-Apr-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Town scale Road Train with steering trailers
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(...) Theirs nothing wrong with this system, although you seem to have added complexiy where none is needed. I think what you have tried to create is a "B triple". This is 1 normal trailer following two other trailers that have their own fifth wheel (...) (22 years ago, 5-Apr-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.town)
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| | Town scale Road Train with steering trailers
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This is townscale Road Train. They use Road Trains in Australia since the distances are so great there. Road trains usually have steered trailers to cope with intersections at teh outskirts of cities. (URL) will notice that the second and third (...) (22 years ago, 5-Apr-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town) !
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| | 3 wheel car & monster truck
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Here are two MOCs I built using my own 'travel set', which is my bucket of pieces made up of (2)sets of (URL) (2) sets of (URL) use my 'travel set' if I'm going somewhere & I don't have a new set to take, or i wanna play around with pieces without (...) (22 years ago, 5-Apr-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Horseless Carriage
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Very cool. I missed the original because I don't always read .town. Bruce (22 years ago, 5-Apr-03, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Horseless Carriage
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In responce to Manfred's urgings.. i feel compelled to offer my sincere opinion about how cool this little carriage is! my only criticism would be to use the old-school castle wheels (URL) , to give it even more of the 'horse-less carriage' look. (...) (22 years ago, 5-Apr-03, to lugnet.town)
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Hello all, In my opinion, this MOC by Allister McLaren is severly underestimated: (URL) give the poor designer some attention well deserved. With freindly greetings, M. Moolhuysen. (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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