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Hi, For quite some time, the little station[1] in my town was ready for an upgrade... I had a little more time to build lately so here is the result: (URL) project is on hold for the moment since I ran out of bricks. I'm waiting for my brickbay (...) (23 years ago, 21-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Trolley line automation
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(...) Hehe There is an old truism the MR freelancers trot out when the rivet counters give them a hard time... No matter how bizzare, if you dig hard enough, there is probably a prototype for it somewhere. So what city was this in? (I know, I (...) (23 years ago, 21-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Engine Shed
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(...) Wait, Toyota MR2 Spider right? anyways, i like your engine shed, its got the presence of an older shed, maybe the type you'd see on a short line or logging railroad? I love the office, i'm going to have to start making more train related (...) (23 years ago, 21-Aug-01, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New Train Structures
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(...) I really liked the grain elevator. How many bricks high is it? It looks great, How did you come up with that circle of bricks that looks so good? How may bricks do you estimate are in there? Mark IndyLUG (23 years ago, 21-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Harry Potter train?
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(...) It is not 9V compatible, since it uses the "normal" wheels like known from the "Adventurer" sets by Lego. Of course it will be easy for any train-head to exchange the wheels against 9V wheel sets.... (...) car... Definitely no motor in engine (...) (23 years ago, 21-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Engine Shed
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Hi y'all Just put up a few more pics of my on-going Engine Shed project on the 'ol website: (URL) hoping to bring it down to TVLF, if I can fit it all in the MR2 :) Cheers, Paul. (23 years ago, 21-Aug-01, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Question for model RR gurus
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(...) I guess I'm just happier seeing Lego targetted at younger kids. Which, as you said earlier, directly contradicts my interest in Mindstorms. I guess I'm just a bloke full of contradictions 8?) However, I'd be interested to see how Lego makes a (...) (23 years ago, 21-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Trolley line automation
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(...) Yep...but, I _did_ phrase it as a special bonus Question :) (...) Na, they used a skate in a trolley track!-also, Melborne, Aus. had problems when the road works crews tore out some old trolley track, and lights went out...it turned out, that (...) (23 years ago, 21-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Ideas Pages Back Up!
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I realized that since I moved my website, & transfered the ideas files to another folder, that none of my pages worked! So I went to work, and finnaly got them all back up: (URL) hope everyone who used my ideas page before reads this post, & is able (...) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.publish) !
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| | Harry Potter train?
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While searching for gifts for my wife (she loves the harry potter stuff) I found the following set. (URL) know if this is a 9V compatible set, or anything else about the set? Looking at the picture it does not seem that a train engine is in either (...) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Completed Steam Engine
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(...) Nice start but it needs more bits and bobs. Piping, handrails, small machines/valves/pumps etc. hanging off it in various places. American steam tends to be quite cluttered unless it is streamlined (and then it STILL needs bits and bobs (...) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Aaah monorail :-D
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(...) Hee I must have missed that one.You can't get them all .....:-) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Aaah monorail :-D
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(...) Yea, imagine that... I thought you bought up all the monorail track? You must of missed this set:) See Ya... Robin Werner GFLTC (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Completed Steam Engine
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I have completed my rendition of an E-6 Atlantic steam engine. I am very happy with the way that it came out. Pics at: (URL) plan to put up some video of it running soon. Let me know what you think. Thanks. Bob (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Aaah monorail :-D
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(...) Monorail? Did i hear someone say monorail?..:-) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Question for model RR gurus
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(...) I'll have to admit that I didn't really care about LEGO going DCC for awhile, I figured it would be cool, but didn't care one way or the other. But once I played with Tom Cook's DCC trains at Brickfest I was sold on the idea! Now when I run my (...) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Question for model RR gurus
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(...) OK, yes, all true. But let me put my Hop-Frog hat(tm) on for a bit. :-) So it's not your cup of tea, that's fine. But why be disappointed if someone else gets what they want? As long as it doesn't detract from the rest of the offerings, why (...) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Trolley line automation
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(...) What did I tell you, people! Some incredibly geeky and small thing in my answer would be incorrect and James would be the one to point it out. Do I know how to call them or what? :-) I have no idea how they grounded them... conductive rubber (...) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Question for model RR gurus
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(...) I'm just not interested in DCC in a Lego environment. Maybe that's cos train building is still pretty young around here - we haven't had any Lego train shows at all, that I'm aware of (although it's been suggested a couple of times). When (...) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Do you also want to be able to buy #K10001 ?
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All that fuss and misunderstanding, and this morning it _IS_ online in the UK now... K10001: GBP112.00 'Backorders Accepted, will ship in 30 days' hmmm... different... Just Jono .oO "Lawrence Wilkes" <lawrence@thewilkesf...rve.co.uk> wrote in (...) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.loc.at, lugnet.loc.be, lugnet.loc.de, lugnet.loc.dk, lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.loc.ie, lugnet.loc.lu, lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.loc.se, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.trains)
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