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(...) I feel very strongly that: Effectiveness is not the same as Quality. Popularity does not equal Elegance. Appreciating a fine wine for example, takes much experience and taste development. I thought The LEGO Company believed that "Only the Best (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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Well said! My LEGO Retailer friends tell me these same things all the time. Their customers are very frustrated. -Suz (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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Kevin Loch wrote in message ... (...) I am a mom, sons 4 (almost 5) and 1. My son has had no interest in Jr. sets past the age of three. He likes my town sets, from the early 90's and 80's because of the detail, like garage doors. I talk to my (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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Kevin Loch wrote in message ... (...) Larry and Todd were specifically referring to the Lego.com *website* in those messages though. From the kids I used to do "Technic class" with, they really loved the Lego website and visited it *a lot*. Between (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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LEGO would be making a huge mistake if they assumed that the things we want are different than what kids want. I hear just about every day from a very reliable source that parents and kids hate juniorized sets. They want sets with more pieces. They (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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Well, here we are with 11 days to go until entries close on Feb 15th! Right now we have 155 entries in total! We could still do with some more Dioramas, boats and ships of all sizes, and microfig scale models. There are NO macro-scale model entries (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.contests)
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(...) I'm surprised to hear that, but if it's true, then it's good news, and it would make things a lot clearer. So, what then *is* the target market for lego.com, and how were things like satisfaction measured? (...) And usability testing, of (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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I just uploaded some pictures of a train I built yesterday. Down in Orlando just west of the airport on the Bee Line there is a blue locomotive that has been sitting there for as long as I can remember. Everytime I drive past it (once or twice a (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Some of your opinions anger me Larry. I hate to say this but you also criticize other people. Maybe you should take a look at the "venome" in you. And not act like everyone is so feeble in the field of trians. (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) That's in fact the best news concerning TLC and the Lego train line I've heared during the last weeks or even months.... After the very dissapointing news from the toys fair in Nuremberg this makes me hope I will be able to spend money into (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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Thanks for the compliments. lawrence wilkes <lawrence@thewilkesf...rve.co.uk> wrote in message news:G88Cwq.9oz@lugnet.com... (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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Scott E. Sanburn <ssanburn@cleanweb.net> wrote in message news:00a701c08e49$de...default... (...) What (...) Thanks - As far as the cars, there is an interesting side-story about that. I have no problem slapping together complex MOC buildings (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hmm, I think you may have hit on why Jorn is over here on this side of the pond, though it doesn't necessarily imply TLC is going to show some trains, they may have sent Jorn because they wanted to include a senior designer, and since they (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) It was the *first* *train* summit. (...) I can't talk about future products, about demographics or web usage or sales figures, or about costs/numbers/successes for various marketing, sales or production activities, for example. There are other (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct) !
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(...) I've said it before, it is my view that 4561 is a good product for the market it is targeted at. Town Jr. is a good product for the market it is targeted at. Bionicle is a good product for the market it is targeted at, for that matter. None of (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Urp, good point In this one... sDscn1209.jpg (URL) from the left Larry Pieniazek – poly-LTC Peter Andersen - LD product manager Jorn Kristian Thomsen - Lead Lego trains designer from Billund James Mathis - PNLTC Jake McKee - Senior producer (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.people)
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(...) Great stuff! Are there plans to have such meeting again someday? It's great to hear that Lego is _really_ in touch with their community! I guess the NDA covers future products, or does it also cover other things? Please tell us for a rough (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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"Frank Filz" <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:3A7CE7D3.D83AEE...ing.com... (...) Putting 2 and 2 together, isn't it the New York Toy Fair this week? Presume that's why they were in town. Perhaps they are going to unviel some trains (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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"Brad Hamilton" <bhamilto1@home.com> wrote in message news:G87J31.40w@lugnet.com... (...) Nice one! regards lawrence (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:G87D35.EpA@lugnet.com... (...) to (...) train (...) 1st good news in a long while. Though it had better not be anything like the 4561. I wonder if they plan to have any meetings like (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Questions about 8 wide
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Hello All, I've just recently gotten into Trains and 8 wide seems to be the best for modeling but I have a few questions. 1. What's a good length for a Diesel? 2. A Passenger car? 3. A Freight car? 4. What's a good height? I understand that the (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thanks :^) ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Ahh, in other words: "Splunge." :-) (...) a total blast! Glad to hear it was fun and productive!! --Todd [followups to .trains] (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) That kind of information would be covered under the NDA so I can't specifically comment. (...) After, last nite back at the hotel, and most all day during the meeting. Train MOCs have a way of taking up the entire table, which is not prudent. (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I've been pretty impressed by LEGO stickers. They are made of a pretty rugged paper and I have always found that if a sticker was stuck on well (if not in quite the right position), that you can pretty much always lift it and re-apply it (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Awesome! I hope all of those who have been whining will think about what happened here, and think about Larry's comments over the past few months about how whining is not the best way to go about things, and consider that this meeting probably (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) My apologies everyone, I totally underestimated the power of the (LEGO)Force. I'm very glad that Trains have a bright future, this has been my lesson in faith. -Harvey (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Yea i wouldn't even think about pulling a 10 year sticker off it would be a goner for sure.I like the design however.I at one time built a building for my monorail trains to "park at night or to get repaired".I used my switch track for a lead (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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I noticed that a portion of the sticker was off the piece, so I tried to gently pull that part up. Luckily, it came right up without any damage whatsoever. Even better, it left almost all of the discoloration and dirt on the brick rather than the (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Exxx...xxxcellent. (...) So you know then? (...) MOCs at din? --Todd (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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Ah - I see that you are right. Unfortunately, I bought this set from someone else, who bought it from yet another person. It was that third person that applied the sticker impromperly. I'm afraid to change it now given that its almost 10 years old! (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yes. (...) Yes I can decisively say that. I think I did already, actually. (...) That kind of information would be covered under the NDA so I can't specifically comment. (...) After dinner the lot of us fested till pretty late, so at 2 AM when (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I agree with the color scheme it looks good.I just like the whole combination of train/monorail building. (...) All i can say is "Great minds think alike" (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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Brad & Chris & All, (...) interesting sidebits. The monorail / train station is one I have been thinking about building as well. The white and red give it a bold look. What are all those Town Junior cars for underneath it? (...) Chris, this is (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message ... (...) I am happy to hear trains will be around. I would like to know why the female part of this group was left out. I guess I shouldn't be surprised.:((((( Rose (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.trains)
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(...) you have the stickers on your little tower upside down. (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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Wow ! I (we, I should say) are soooo jealous...sounds like a rush. Did ya ask if they are ever gona make proper steam engine wheels, sorta like Ben's April Fools catalogue ? ( but then I suppose ya can't talk about that, eh?) Anyway Good goin' ! (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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This is a large station servicing both monorails and trains. The main index can be found here: (URL) overall shot is here: (URL) started out trying for an Art-Deco look, but I kept slapping on my favorite strange piece, and now it doesn't really (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Awesome! (...) Ohohoo, when you say "the future of the product line," I assume you are referring to trains? If so, that sounds very encouraging! Can you say whether rumors of the train product line's demise are greatly exaggerated? Will be any (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Need 10 Red Plate, Modified 1 x 6 with Train Wagon End
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"Jonathan Johnson" <lightfoot@earthling.net> wrote in message news:3a7c6994.559256...net.com... (...) There are two red ones in the 4555 Freight Loading Station ((URL) I used black ones in my version of the Santa Fe locomotive: (URL) Walsh - (...) (24 years ago, 3-Feb-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains)
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes: <snip> Forgot to crosspost to .direct ++Lar (24 years ago, 3-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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I am under NDA so cannot go into a lot of detail, but I did want to post to say that and several other Lego Trains stalwarts have just completed the first ever LEGO(r) Train Summit. We have just spent Friday evening and all day Saturday meeting with (...) (24 years ago, 3-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains) !!
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I need 10 "Red Plate, Modified 1 x 6 with Train Wagon End". (URL) And yes they're all for one loco. :) Would anyone be willing to part with 10 or can someone tell me where I could procure them? Thanks! Next stop, Santa Fe! Lightfoot (...) (24 years ago, 3-Feb-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Since going 8-wide I am down to one engine, but I do plan on making a second SD40-2 identical to my first one someday, but I was thinking the same along the same lines. In reality two SD40-2's could haul a train much longer than I'll ever (...) (24 years ago, 3-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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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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| | Re: Attention: Jim Rorstrom
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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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I like the SD90MAC, I had a 6 wide version of the SD90MAC, maybe i should go for an 8-wide version of the SD90MAC-H. My SD90 just didn't look good, it seemed small. Josh (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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Dan, Sounds interesting. As long as you are soldering LEDs, maybe you could wire a blue one between the wheels and have it brush against contacts in the track intermittantly to create the blue arcing effect so typical of these trains. Now that would (...) (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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Great set of MOCs! It's so fun to be overwhelmed by an on slaught of MOCs. The capt'n hook handrails are great, although I don't think I can get any of those back from my prirate crazed 5 yr old son! And one on of my favorite pass times is to use (...) (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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Real men model 7 wide ;P SteveB :D (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yes, we decided to go with 6 wide for the subway cars since they're only going to viewed in profile anyway (those red windows are actually built into the side of one of the modules - you will not be able to see the subway stations from the (...) (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yeah, the doors on the sides and ends. I acutally used a lot of dirty tricks in these cars in order to get the purple trim and stainless steel look. Dan (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I just added a second picture, giving a side profile: (URL) (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) The white thing in the background is the arched roof for the subway station. It has two rows of lights to illuminate the platform and station interior. Up above on street level will be the city, which will also have streetcars running through (...) (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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Dan, Very nice! Being from Chicago, I especially like the subway cars. Now what really caught my eye is the large white structure with all the 9v wires in the roof... what is that? -BMW (...) (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Actually, it is the 'hook' minifigure hand element. Dan does nice work - we like to have him around! JohnG, GMLTC (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) will have 8 wide trains and 6 wide subway cars? Cool! --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu (URL) (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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"Daniel Siskind" <blackened@visi.com> wrote in message news:G82L2J.571@lugnet.com... (...) silver/gray/purple (...) addition (...) The driver's cab is *BRILLIANT*!!!...!!! Iain (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) in (...) Looks like minifig box wrenches from the tool wheels. If I'm right I expect to see this technique on MANY more MOCs. Will (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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Dan, I really like your 6 wide subway car. Do you have any more pictures of that? Bryan "Daniel Siskind" <blackened@visi.com> wrote in message news:G82L2J.571@lugnet.com... (...) posting pix (...) for (...) ore (...) silver/gray/purple (...) (...) (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) pix (...) the handrail stanchions?? I can't quite make out that top bit. I've had a GE Dash 8-40CW stewing in the back of my mind since completion of my GP38-2. I might just have to get around to working on it sometime soon. Nice set of cars. (...) (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) pix (...) Regards, Ben (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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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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(...) 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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"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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"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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(...) 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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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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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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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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