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I'm starting to figure out how my digital camera works and have been posting pix of some of my Train creations from the past six months / year. Highlights for 8-wide include EMD SD90MAC locomotives, double door box cars, a 110 ton ore hopper, (...) (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains) !!
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| | Re: Exporting images from Track Designer
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(...) Ummm, I actually prefer to use JPEG or PNG rather than GIF, because of the Unisys patent (read about it at (URL) There are libraries available for converting to / from these formats. Regards ROSCO (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) It's not quite the same thing. Unlike the PrintScreeen option I had to write code to support this feature! When you do want to save a lot of images you don't want to have to edit them each time. I did think about a Save As Image function but (...) (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Bridges(Re: The Limacion track design is BUILT!)
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where do you get a Pitsco/Datca catalog (...) (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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| | Bridges(Re: The Limacion track design is BUILT!)
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"Brad Hamilton" <bhamilto1@home.com> wrote in message news:G7spqq.H3E@lugnet.com... (...) of (...) I finally got my 2001 Pitsco/Datca catalog and it shows several books on bridge design. I don't own any of the ones shown but if anyone out there (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: train tracks
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"Daniel Staudt" <dstaudt@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:3A786AE1.1081DB...ail.com... (...) Old train tracks are the same lenght but for the rest very different. One stretch of 12V track is build from two rails and three sleepers (2x8 plates (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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question: are the train tracks of old (late 80's early 90's) the same size as current tracks? do the tracks fit together? to the cars fit on the tracks? thanks in advance (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: O Winston Link passed away
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(...) This is quite a shame as he was a remarkable photographer. Recently in some magazine (the New Yorker?, Vanity Fair?) there was an article about the surprising number of great 20th century photographers who are still alive though quite advanced (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: I'm looking for ideas...
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"James Powell" <wx732@freenet.victoria.bc.ca> wrote in message news:G80uIn.5JG@lugnet.com... <snippage> (...) up, 2 (...) You couldn't give me some more details about this so that I can look up the incident on the 'net. Quite an achievement to lose (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | O Winston Link passed away
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Most famous for his photography of the N&W railway, along with sound recordings of the same, O Winston Link has passed away. (for those of you who don't know about him, he took flash photographs at night of railway scenes. For these photographs, (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: MOC update: improved roundhouse (SNIR?)
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(...) That building technik got even an own name recently: - SNIR-technik for "S"tuds "N"ot "I"n "R"ow. Has that been used in Lugnet before? It was just a fun mention in the German www.1000steine.de forum, but now it's used there more and more and (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: MOC update: improved roundhouse
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Very cool, I especially like the layering and pushing the limits of lego geometry by angling stuff, like here with the tiles. (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: MOC update: improved roundhouse
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(...) of (...) I have continued my work on the roundhouses interieur: New pictures are to be found from this site on: (URL) Regards, Ben (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: I'm looking for ideas...
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(...) Nothing beats the Germans though. They lost a electric loco. It showed up, 2 power systems away, in Italy. Oops. And it was a _major_ headache to retreve. But, it took them like 2 _years_ to notice that it was missing. James (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Great observation! This is true, at least in the US, for all large industrial concerns, but especially so for capital intensive industries like rails with large physical plant, and long lived assets which are so numerous that it is easy to (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: I'm looking for ideas...
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Thing that jumps out about rail yards for me is that rail yards and stations are a evolutionary process. -Moved sheds(or just the posts) to disused rails that are unconnected and overgrown. -Heaps of rails and ties, parts of cars, engines and (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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The Station should have lots of garbage cans, most of the stations i've been to allways seem to me messy, seems like they don't have janitors or something. Maybe even a few hobos or bums... Josh (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Americana - new building for PDX GATS
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North Americana! (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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(...) They're beautiful - Feel like sending any up north for Supertrain2001? Perhaps it would be easier to get some construction details to JamesB and he could replicate them locally? I think he still has room to fill. (...) They're even (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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| | Re: Exporting images from Track Designer
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(...) Umm - Isn't that essentially the same thing? You're just using <Cntl> C instead of <Cntl> PrintScreen. I suppose it might save a bit of editing out of screen edges, but really a "Save As Image" function along the lines of a print preview would (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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