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(...) (I think you meant "steal".... GMLTC already uses steel :-) ) (23 years ago, 4-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Train Set 113 Advice?
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(...) Looking at the Lugnet database here: (URL) it as a 4.5V set (...) Also on the same page is a link to the building instructions on brickshelf: (URL) (23 years ago, 4-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Train Set 113 Advice?
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(...) I beleave its 4.5 Josh (...) (23 years ago, 4-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au)
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Hello. I have just taken ownership of train set 113 - quite an old set but still a heck of a lot of fun! Can someone please tell me if this set was 4.5 or 9 volt? Does anyone have the building instructions (not on brickshelf)? The set is missing the (...) (23 years ago, 4-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au)
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OK... following up to my own post... Steve stopped by and showed me how to upload pictures to BrickShelf. Hey! Who needs FTP!?! I just posted a dozen or so pictures of our layout. Its just an initial sampler to show you some of the new things on our (...) (23 years ago, 4-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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Howdy all, Well, here we are at Carlsbad, all set-up and ready to go for this weekends show! We arrived yesterday (Thursday) and started setting up in the afternoon and finished up today (Friday). We've had several local people form the SCLTC (...) (23 years ago, 4-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Let me apologise. I think I exaggerated. 10s of seconds is a bit much. I just carried out a test with several wheelsets that I consider to be quite free rolling (when placed on a car, that car will go many feet of straight track if level and (...) (23 years ago, 4-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I think you're absolutely right! The stuff I speculated about elsewhere in the thread isn't technical, it's just monetary (putting an electromechanical assembly line back together again or even recreating tooling isn't *technically* (...) (23 years ago, 4-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi! Yeah sorry, I should really create a hole for the webserver to talk to the database on www.gmltc.org again. Maybe this weekend. I've pretty much come off of being a full time member but since everyone else I know who reads is out of town, I get (...) (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) OK, I tried the flick test on my wheels and none of them spun for 10 seconds. Not my old Metroliner wheels, not my new My Own Train wheels, nothing. The place where my sets are stored is about 80 degrees right now and fairly high humidity. (...) (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Flywheels in LU (was Re: what is the use of a caboose?
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(...) other fallen flag railroads' reference site: (URL) halfway down this page, you find operator manuals for the S-1, S-2, RS-1,C420, E-8, F-7, GP-7, GP-35 and several U-series locomotives. Neat stuff. -chris (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I hadn't heard of ANYONE doing this for any serious energy storage (most reciprocating engines use flywheels to smooth out the motion generated, of course, but this would be different). Do you have any info on where you heard this? (...) Some (...) (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) So what?! TLC is in the business of making moulds so that they can manufacture thousands of little plastic modular elements that comprise a supposed "system" of building blocks. I have the strange idea that TLC can and does make moulds for (...) (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I think they're underestimating it less than you think. Brad touched on this type of impact. However, I think their feeling is their whole Mania Club/S@H consituency fits this bill. Brad also made it clear that while he completely understood (...) (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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Hi all! I have a still unsolved problem with the hook couplings of the 60ies: There are two types of them: - the one version has 2x2 plates (one with hole one with hook) As for e.g. shown in building inbstruction of 111: (URL) the second versin (...) (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I thought they were using flywheels in diesels, but I couldn't find too much. Most of the braking power though is supplied not by charging a battery, but by dissipating the energy through resistors (some portion of those cooling fans are (...) (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Time zones, my friend, time zones. All posts on Lugnet are stamped at GMT. Adrian (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi folks! Yesterday in the evening I have used the warm weather and the great sundown light for a photoshooting session on tran stuff and 6-wide trucks of the 70ies. So far there have been some "wrong" pictures online, which are now all exchanged. (...) (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Maybe, although I was placing a phone order because I wanted the tape of LegoLand (I've seen it, I think, James Mathis has a copy, if it's the one I was thinking of). I'll have to try again. (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Flywheels in LU (was Re: what is the use of a caboose?
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:GHGAxL.FyL@lugnet.com... (...) (regenerative (...) It's very common in the rapid transit / metro industry. I'm not aware of any full-scale trains (ie, any systems other than rt or (...) (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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