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Hey all, I finally had the chance to run my trains this weekend. If you don't know, I have been building my trains 8-wide, and the size and weight of my cars was causing a problem. The surging that the long cars cause as they go through the corners (...) (23 years ago, 28-May-01, to lugnet.trains) !
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(...) Me too. The first page comes up empty, and the second page causes Netscape to crash. Explorer loaded the pages fine. Chris (23 years ago, 28-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Sorry Sonnich, but as often as I try to visit any of your pages from above, my Netscape browser gets killed.... :-( Leg Godt! Ben (23 years ago, 28-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) cutting a 9V connector in half and putting 12V pins on one end? That seems a lot less work and also less invasive of a more expensive part. Still, you get points for elegance! Thanks for sharing. (23 years ago, 28-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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I have been using RCXs to control tracks, you also can control signal in the (...) (23 years ago, 28-May-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Interesting... Josh (23 years ago, 28-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I push for them too, and longer radus corners. Oh, yeah and bulk 2x6 45 degree slope with a 1x6 plate removed from top in bulk (grey, hint hint). Josh (23 years ago, 28-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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My red diesel engine is now online: (URL) features a modified 9V motor, which you can read about here: (URL) new cars should _hopefully_ be online in next week. LMKWYT Sonnich (23 years ago, 27-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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I would do both, convert 7722 to 9v AND buy two 'build your own trains' - say a small loco and a large loco and tender - from them you get the other combinations. Buy any Lego train you can. David (23 years ago, 27-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Frank, Thanks! I have other pictures too but I have a major space limit on that server and I'm already over.... I used to buy many of the Playmobile train cars to "kitbash" and make other cars from them. They were good cheap parts. LGB used to (...) (23 years ago, 27-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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Eli, You couldn't have said it better. We do have a need for all those things in the trains realm, esp. the steam engine wheels w/siderods. -Harvey (23 years ago, 27-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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Afternoon all , I would just wondering how greater a need there is in lego trains for scenery such as turn tables ,round houses arch ways for tunnels ,working smoke boxes,working signals,real life looking steel bridges & wheels arragements like the (...) (23 years ago, 27-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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"James Mathis" <thakius@nmt.edu> wrote in message news:GDyBux.9H8@lugnet.com... (...) desert (...) live. (...) there (...) all. (...) childhood,some (...) was in (...) sh*t (...) [ ... snipped ... ] Someone will know more than I do but yes, (...) (23 years ago, 27-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Great Northern Orange/ Hunter Green. The merger is around 10 years old now, but the Red & Silver SF units are still around, alot with BNSF on them now. (...) <snip> I agree... Josh (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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"Harvey Henkelman" <HarveyHenkelman@webtv.net> wrote in message news:GDy8Bo.4E2@lugnet.com... (...) The 7722's motor is not in the tender, it's a battery train with the motor in the locomotive and powered by batteries carried in the 'tender' (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) as (...) Some (...) cheap (...) couple (...) Ooh, I really didn't need to see those pictures... I keep stealing glances at the Playmobile toys. They just look so nice, and mixing them with large scale trains ooh ahh (of course Playmobile's own (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | RE: James Mathis goes US-proto: 8-wide Sante Fe study
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(...) Of course. I don't succeed in highest durability either. But I usually get bored with a model too soon to make revisions to the design. Detail is always the first priority. On my models, the mirrors also fall off, as do other parts, but (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yes. (...) Same place. I have only intended this Sante Fe to be a design study for the nose/cab only for this locomotive. I will likely not finish this model. (...) That was fun to figure out . :-) Amazing how well engineered LEGO element (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) The best that I see are pictures found in either books or on the web. ;-) But, yes, I can see them in real-life traveling the tracks near where I live. I live 2.3 hours away from the city of Sante Fe, New Mexico, USA. The locos of this style (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) <snip old intro stuff> (...) I like th red pantagraph, as well. Credit goes to the artistic designers for the real-life version. I only used the color scheme they used. (...) You and Larry P. are on the same page, here. Ugh, those curved-wall (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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