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(...) Ahhhh, the Cylindrical Hopper :-). Thank you for providing me an idea as to how to build one! I've been dreaming about one since I really got into LEGO trains, now I see I can have one (or 2, or 3...)! I belive its time formeto go building! (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) English (...) than (...) Hi, The context is the power rating of the loco against the mass of the trains it hauls. Our program tries to minimize the power that is not being used. I think that "Tractive Surplus" is very good to describe this (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Townies, please note the above. You can run but you cannot hide. Sooner or later, any townie worth his stripes will become a trainhead. (Trainheads for the most part are already townies... just look at the buildings we all crank out on a (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I'm not really a train guy (yet) but I really like this car. There is a fertilizer plant in the South Bronx (next to the east coasts largest produce market...go figure) that utilizes cars just like these. I wouldn't mind seeing more shots or (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) 'Traction' on it's own is some times used to describe locomotives so 'Spare Traction' might mean locos that aren't being used. - Tractive Effort is the term I think you should use. I'll ask about at work whether it should be 'surplus', (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains)
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To All, Someone asked me when I was going to post this train station, so here are a few thoughts. I always wanted to build a big train station. Although I enjoyed the small stations LEGO offered, and after puttering around LUGNET since 1998, and (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains)
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very nice! Is this what they also refer to as a cylindrical teardrop hopper or am thinking of something else? -chris (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) ITIVC! (I think it's very cool!) You've nailed that Canadian Board of Trade look very nicely. Well done. Now about those end ladders... that's the same technique that I used in my caboose, years back, and I have to say I wish there was a (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi, I'm working in a project to optimize the use of wagons for a Brazilian railroad company. We need to write the documentation of the project in English also. My question is: Do you know an expression that is used when you have more traction power (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi, I just put some pics of my latest wheat car on Brickshelf: (URL) LMKWYT. Thanks KZ (23 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc)
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