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(...) lol BION, I'm pretty sure I never uttered the sacred phrase "8 wide" to Brad at all. In the pic where he and I are laughing, I think we were talking about one of your MOCs, Lar >;-D (...) We *almost* needed it for SteveB, though;-) (inside (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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lol The rest of the attendees have barely arrived home and the thread has already burned out;-) We did have a great time with the LD personnel and amongst attendees ourselves. I really enjoyed renewing old acquaintances and meeting others F2F for (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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Great use of technic, Mike! I think the loco looks pretty good. The only enhancement I can think is to use the half wide technic beams with no studs (URL) - they'd probably look even better! And the tie is generally closer to the centre of the (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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Robert- Welcome to trains! :-) And congratulations on your width choice;-) I will try and answer some of your questions as I have been modeling in 8 wide for quite some time now... Modeling 8 wide is approximate to modeling in O scale, or 1:48. A (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi all, This is my first attempt at modeling a train in 8-wide. I'd have to say that im still not sure which size I like better. This model is loosely based on a Canadian Pacific 4-4-4 'Jubilee' that I saw on a website. The large gears with chains (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Mike, It definitely is a product of EMD(the prototype), once you obtain the photograph, I can tell you the particular model and it's statistics if you are so interested. -Harvey (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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I've submitted this as a "large building" for the town building contest. Brad Hamilton <bhamilto1@home.com> wrote in message news:G87J31.40w@lugnet.com... (...) half-arch (...) red (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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(...) [snip] Larry, This is great news, I can't wait to see the new sets and I hope it's soon! Long live LEGO Trains! Robin Werner Greater Florida LEGO Train Club (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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That building looks pretty neat. I only recently started building 4-sided buildings myself. Almost all of my prior stuff was only 6 or 8 studs deep with no back! I took a major step forward with my natural history museum. I think it is at least 20 (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) If you could use brown, go find 5 copies of 7104 Desert Skiff. These have been seen in some K-Marts for $4. Some other good bits in that set. Ray (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains)
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"Jonathan Johnson" <lightfoot@earthling.net> wrote in message news:3a7df838.157992...net.com... (...) Exactly the reason I suggested using black. They are a little easier to come by and the pictures I have seen of Santa Fe locomotives tend to have (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains)
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I don't see buying 5 of those sets as quite in my budget at the moment... (...) Lightfoot lightfoot@earthling.net (URL) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains)
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Brad & All, (...) that. (...) built (...) to (...) Heh., I understand that. I can build some decent car / truck / space creations on my own, I have not done too much in custom building yet, outside of this I did for the train show. It is my first 4 (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Well, from what I've heard of Billund and how happy employees are to take trips to cities, it wouldn't surprise me ;) That doesn't stop me from wanting to go to Billund someday though... :-D Nevertheless, I'm impressed too! (...) I'd love to (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Well, then I'm really impressed :-) (either that or they really wanted to sample the NYC food and just figured while they were in town, why not drop in on the summit...) Frank (who wishes he was there, but figures he'd have been a duplicate (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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I've only had a train set for a few days, so I'm glad to hear from Larry that there's a future in it. Anyway, here's the DAT file for a MOC wagon that I'd built just before my very first train set (4563) arrived, a few days ago. After a quick test (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Nice switcher. It looks great. Chris (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Height...hmmm. My stuff tends to be a bit taller (1 brick at most 2 bricks) the standard LEGO stock. Length varies. I usually go 1 stud = 1.25 feet. When I am trying to copy a prototype I usually try to judge by the size of the wheels and (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I certainly do. Did any of you happen to go into the store and find out what this Revolvolution stuff is? (URL) first I thought it read "Re-volvo-lotion", and I was thinking it might be something useful for the interior of my car... however, (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) My sons are ages 5 and 7. The younger one loves to build and can easily build sets labeled ages 8-12, for instance. The worst trouble he has is finding the pieces, so I agree with Rose that the newer inside packaging into separate poly bags (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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