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Wow, Ben. That is a pretty impressive structure... Any more pictures of it? I'd love to see some more. :-) -Andy Lynch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Reinhard "Ben" Beneke" <r.beneke@tu-bs.de> (...) me to (...) (23 years ago, 30-Aug-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.de)
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| | Re: 12 volt train track: Blue versus Gray
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(...) They obviously never planned to use the doubled amount of sleepers (ties). But it works find for 4.5 Volt. We did that one for our outdoor garden layout to make the track more stable and avoid derailments. (URL) > What about the (...) with (...) (23 years ago, 30-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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Dear all, Frank Deuter - a German Co-AFOL - has built this cathedral and asked me to publish a first picture of it. Take a look at it here: (URL) think it is one of the most georgeous buildings I have ever seen! The cathedral will be displayed at (...) (23 years ago, 30-Aug-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.de) !!
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| | Re: 12 volt train track: Blue versus Gray
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(...) of course if one wants to make the ties (sleepers) uniform in color, you just needs lots of dark grey 2x8 plates (or you could use white 2x8 plates instead of the dark grey ties). What surprised me a little is that the blue conducting rails do (...) (23 years ago, 30-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yes it is nearly identical: grey has double amount of sleepers and different sleeper (with snap locks). But where blue and grey meet you can simply use a white sleeper of the blue track, that is all. (...) Each system offers hand crafted (...) (23 years ago, 30-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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Is the blue 12v track compatible with the gray 12v track? What about the points (switches)? Also, as far as track geometry is concerned, is 12v track compatible with 9v track? I know the electrics are different. (23 years ago, 30-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Bricks on the Brain re-launches!
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(...) That is actually the Monorail track and supports. The pic you are referencing was taken at the train layout at Brickfest 2001. Jake --- Jake McKee AFOL LUGNET Member #211 (23 years ago, 30-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: PNLTC's LEGOLAND photo gallery is up (finally)
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(...) Oh, no!!! Its been "Lugnetted"!!!!! ROSCO (23 years ago, 30-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) ~5.6"). (...) Well I have the pieces in my hand right now and 8 pieces of track fit perfectly onto 4 32x32 (studs) baseplates end to end. My impression was that those baseplates were 10" square. So the track pieces would be approx. 5" each. I (...) (23 years ago, 30-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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G'Day Nice work ! Question: In two of the views of your hopper cars (hopper.jpg, hopper2.jpg) there is some elevated track in the background, how did you do the support for the track ? Cheers Oliver <snip> (23 years ago, 30-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: PNLTC's LEGOLAND photo gallery is up (finally)
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Sorry for the slow- and non-loading pictures. We're aware of the problem and are working on a solution. And yes, traffic volume is almost certainly part of the problem. -- Tony Hafner www.pnltc.org (23 years ago, 29-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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I think there are two but I'm not sure. (...) (23 years ago, 29-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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Monorail and 9V trains have entirely different track so I don't think they're interchanglable. They aren't being produced either. (...) (23 years ago, 29-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: PNLTC's LEGOLAND photo gallery is up (finally)
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They're still pretty much hit and miss for me, I'll get all the thumbnails and then only a few of the big pictures. But then I'll come back later and get only a few of the thumbnails and it kind of hangs up when I look at the bigger pictures. Maybe (...) (23 years ago, 29-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I didn't remember correctly. It the overlap is offset by 1/2 stud making the total length only 17 studs (~5.35"). Steve (23 years ago, 29-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I realized we were making this discussion to difficult. Duh, RTFM. (URL) (23 years ago, 29-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) of track has tabs that stick out on the end to connect to the next piece of track which makes it slightly longer (2 studs, IIRC. That would make it ~5.6"). Of course, because the tabs overlap each extra piece of track only adds 5 1/16". Steve (...) (23 years ago, 29-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Mmmm. Transluscent fruit :-) Great display. Good 3-D work and lots of character throughout. I particularly like the mountain town and the wonderful cathedral. Amy (23 years ago, 29-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I found a lot of the images to be broken on first pass as well- but they always came in when I forced IE to reload the image (right-click/show image). -- Tony Hafner www.hafhead.com www.pnltc.org (23 years ago, 29-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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-- (...) You are right. The section of track adds 5" to the length of the track. -- Bob Fay rfay@we.mediaone.net The Shop (URL) (23 years ago, 29-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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