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<frank f's recommendations on what to buy to get started> Skip the speed regulator. Post in market.buy-sell-trade that you want one and you'll get lots of offers. I have a few surplus and will sell used ones for 36 including shipping within the US (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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Call 9-1-1, you've been bitten badly!;-) All seriousness aside, welcome to the world of trainstrainstrains! It's great to see such enthusiasm and excitement over our little hobby. Here's some advice I'd give to a "rookie" who is just starting out: (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I started with one of each of: 4559 Cargo Railway 4565 Freight & Crane Railway 3225 Classic Train 2126 Train Cars I then added: 2nd 4559 Cargo Railway (1) 2nd 4565 Freight & Crane Railway (2) 2nd 3225 Classic Train (3) 2 4555 Freight Loading (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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Here's my story. I wanted a Lego train since I first saw the twelve volt trains many years ago. I never had them, but my dad is a model railroader, formerally HO but now N scale, so I had a lot of railroading experience growing up. Last week, I was (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) <snip> No! no! no! 4561 are Martin (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) be (...) no (...) On thing that might deture you from using your LEGO trains outside. Is that the motor might get gunked up. In other words get a lot of dirt in the motor. If you look this site (URL) it mentions that they used 12v trains but (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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I'm sure this has been brought up before, but this brings up an important point: is anything/method that any LL does to display a model considered "pure"? It seems unlikely that in laying track in LL Carlsbad that TLG actually made track but rather (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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Like the Crystal Scavenger, the predecessor Crystal Crawler 6145 has two of these as well. -- dave (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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4560 are available in canada? Standing request, if anyone sees 4560s at Zeddys or other discounters for a net cost of 70 USD or less each including tax but not shipping, I want 3... Thanks! Terrible set but some good parts. Frank Filz wrote: <larry (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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Martin Legault wrote in message ... (...) Oops, I meant 4560, the one without the controller... Frank (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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