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I know someone built a pneumatically driven car... Anyone in lugnet.technic remember who it was/where the pics are? Duq (23 years ago, 27-Apr-01, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains)
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(...) discussion since I'm mostly a space head) I worked for Colorado Railcar last year and they build specialty dome cars. Mostly diners and galley cars. You can see examples at their site. (URL) this helps sombody out... -Duane (23 years ago, 27-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) No. Bi-levels are not "dome-nature" (for example, the METRA commuter cars, or the GO cars, or the Southern (UK) railway cars(1)), but are simply a way to get more people into the space available. Fortunately, railways have not taken this to (...) (23 years ago, 27-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Sticky tape. The blue 2x2 macaroni pieces are from the cement mixers in 4565, and then the tape is carried (perhaps was :), around the back of the cars. The cars were rather fragile, the bogie's are only held in place by a 1x4 plate, and the (...) (23 years ago, 27-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New Train - KT203 - Opening the box - first impressions
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(...) Ben - how many do you think we can shift through e-Bay before their backorders start being filled in America? ;-) And can any of you continentals beat 10:00 GMT 25/04/2001 (09:00 UK local time)? Jason J Railton (23 years ago, 27-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Would you characterize "bi-level" as "dome-nature"? My impression has been that bi-level cars are fully bi-level (and pretty darn tall), but then I haven't ever really studied passenger trains much (actually, I tend not to be too much into in (...) (23 years ago, 27-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Sort of. Oh boy. Books can be written on this topic. Many books HAVE been. Go read them for more detail Pardon my terseness, I am in Houston between flights, enroute to San DiLego for the (non)Wedding Fest. Railroads tend to order custom. So (...) (23 years ago, 27-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) That's an awesome rendition of the Kriegslok! To bad I can't build like that, my V188 doesn't come close in the level of detail that his BR52 displays. But then again, not many diesels do anyway. -Harvey (23 years ago, 27-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)
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New to me is this orange TGV showcased among many other great MOC's. I always love seeing new European stock passenger trains. Well done. Lots of Halloween pumpkins? (URL) Mathis (23 years ago, 27-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) contours in the subtle shadows of an predominately dark-colored locomotive. <snipped highlights> (...) Brilliant. (...) Just that it is so cool that so many folks are building stunning steam locomotives. :-) later, James Mathis (23 years ago, 27-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Very nice VIA train set. Nice yellow nose. What did you do for the yellow stripe curving around the tail-end of the last car in the set? Is that sticker-tape, or is there a yellow curved plate? later, James Mathis (23 years ago, 27-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yep. Like: (URL) last photo). And yes, we did steal the idea from the same place :) James (23 years ago, 27-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) snip lots of useful information (...) Lar, What is the difference between a dome car and an observation car? Is a dome car just an observation car that fits in the middle of a train? By my interpretation even though both the "Club Car" and my (...) (23 years ago, 27-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) stream liner (not me). Chris (23 years ago, 27-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) Jeepers Creepers!! Can you leave half a dozen availabe for the Americas?? Please, please? We would like to have some too! Katie (23 years ago, 27-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) My Big Black Loco with Tender, plus my light set arrived late yesterday. The light set consists of a standard train light brick, a sliver reflector, an ordinary 1x2 black brick, a 9v cable (20cm?) and instructions on how to build it into all (...) (23 years ago, 27-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Passenger Train Consists (was: Re: brick/plate height ruler...)
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(...) I just happened to be surfing looking for some Hiawatha info the other night, and came up with this URL: (URL) has scanned an original, full brochure on the Milwaukee Road's Olympian Hiawatha-- what a cool primary resource:-) -John (...) (23 years ago, 27-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.org.ca.nalug, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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(...) Here is a typical(1) consist for a 15 or so car train from the heavyweight era that I just made up, but which ought to be fairly representative. Starting from the front: -baggage -baggage -Railway Post Office -Dormitory -Coach -Coach -Coach (...) (23 years ago, 27-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.org.ca.nalug, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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(...) 25? (...) Or we Europeans have ordered too much stuff after the prices and pictures have appeared at Lego.com. ;-) I myself have ordered not more than 4 copies, but nearly every friend around has done the same. If you know xTI@AN: that guy has (...) (23 years ago, 26-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) And Canada... It must be in a container on a ship someplace... TFM -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (23 years ago, 26-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.uk)
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