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(...) Wow, good looking stuff. Lots of new details in the railing and ladder category too. Nice hand rails, I guess you have a LOT of hookless pirates and evil adventurers now. Also, it looks like you have two SD90MAC's. I guess if you had a good (...) (24 years ago, 3-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) The curved 12v power tracks that fit in the middle of the rails will not fit on the 9v rails without a little filing. The extra sleepers on the 9v rails cause problems with some plastic bits on the bottom of the 12v 3rd rail. Also, because the (...) (24 years ago, 3-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thanks, I'm relatively pleased with it too! It actually wasn't an original idea though. Ben Fleskes used the same part (in yellow) for a Union Pacific F7. You can see it in the PNLTC gallery. Here's a direct link to the large picture of Ben's (...) (24 years ago, 3-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yeah, might not me good for me to do that hey ;-) josh (...) (24 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I like the use of the Diver's round windows for the sides, looks cool. Josh (24 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Small... Josh (24 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) The GMLTC has that covered too. My EP-2 Bipolar is 7 wide. Pictures coming soon... Steve [GMLTC] (24 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I built an F7A that is 7 wide. I suppose that counts? In fact I built two A units and a B unit, so now I can run an ABA setup. Looks really neat too! The only problem right now is that my engine set is longer than the rolling stock I have to (...) (24 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Nope, just this week. The New York Times posted the obituary today. It also retreads the marital problems he had late in life where he married and divorced a woman fifty years younger than him. He sued her saying that she essentially locked (...) (24 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I've been peeking at the pictures the last day or so as you've updated things and drooling. While I only have a 4565, I've always loved trains. The detail you've put into this is simply beyond words. I love all of the machinery you've put in - (...) (24 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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As visitors of brickshelf might have noticed, I have uploaded some new pics of the renovated engine roundhouse daily. (URL) the job is done and the roundhouse is finished (for the moment). Next step (in a few weeks) will be to motorize the (...) (24 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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"Josh Baakko" <shi_web@hotmail.com> ha scritto nel messaggio news:G83sDK.90K@lugnet.com... (...) Gianluca Morelli built at least one of those 7 wide, so now I know he's a Real Men :-) (URL) (24 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) The hook hands work brilliantly and doesn't have the funny angle of minifig hands. The side rails of the SD90 have a piece of 14 gauge copper wire shoved down the middle to help keep the shape, but it doesn't expand the tube at all. The cross (...) (24 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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John Gerlach wrote in message ... (...) I tried fitting minifig hands into the flex-tubing for handrails, and found that they are just slightly too big. Are the hooks a better fit, or do you use some method of expanding the hole in the tubing, Dan? (...) (24 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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I dont know for sure but didnt Winston pass away a long time ago. In MR there was an article about him in '98 and said he had died. (...) I dont think so, on my latest trip to Alaska we stopped at Skagway (where the yukon gold rush was started) And (...) (24 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Nope. He did take some colour photos. However, the vast majority of the night photographs are black and white photographs. I think that you probably shouldn't go wildly scanning in his images, because people get mad when you go doing that (...) (24 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I can scan some of Link's photos if anyone would like, they are in some model railroad magazines. I think he only too B&W's too. Josh (...) (24 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Got any pictures? Josh (24 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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Lookin' good! Big, powerful, well detailed. The silver grills adorning the sides of the subway car are great! The ladder on the caboose is very clever. If that's been done before, sorry I didn't notice. It looks very nice. I'm looking forward to (...) (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) It's been 3 weeks without a response, so I'm cross-posting this to reach a broader group, in hopes of catching Jim's attention, or the attention of someone who knows what's up. James (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.market.jambalaya, lugnet.people, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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