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Is it me or has the listing on shop.lego.com changed and removed the 'limited numbered edition' from the description. Have all 10,000 been sold? Jeff (23 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Moment of Clarity or An Inspiration to the Rest of Us
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message ... (...) obviously (...) Is this like what Dean did for our last VLC layout? We had 2 passenger trains running on the same outer loop - one just went round and round, but the other one (Hogwarts Express) was (...) (23 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.us.lucny, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: Moment of Clarity or An Inspiration to the Rest of Us
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Crossposted to trains and trains.org for more visibility as I feel this is pretty exciting stuff! (...) There are a myriad of small trackside buildings that can be used, as well as equipment cabinets etc which are used for prototype (...) (23 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.us.lucny, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: Easter Express
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(...) Mike - I'm glad you liked my Easter Train. I finally decided on the name "The Cottontail Special" for the train. I just finished posting another msg with some information about the train and a link to some pictures that I took this morning and (...) (23 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | The Cottontail Special - 2002 Easter Train
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As part of the late-March RichLUG Train/Town display here in Richmond, Virginia, I ran an Easter train that I put together a couple of days before the show. I had wanted to have a train in pastel colors, not only because of the season, but to run (...) (23 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.fun.holiday, lugnet.general, lugnet.org.us.richlug) !
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| | Town Building Contest... and the winner is.....
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Check here for the winners! (URL) Lego Building contest! (URL) 2396 piece kit - only one left! (URL) Lego parts store: (URL) Guild of Bricksmiths(TM): (URL) Lego Web page: (URL) (23 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.arch) !!
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| | Easter Express
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I was poking through some of the RichLUG pictures from their recent show and came across this: (URL) am surprised this didn't generate any discussion! It is eight-wide to boot! This goes along with the WAMALUG Paradisa Level Crossing that someone (...) (23 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: I'm back! (In a limited sort of way)
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(...) Nope, not good news here. The original device worked flawlessly (not counting "prodding fingers from wee ones" error) for at least 20 hours worth of show time and eventually broke a flex shaft. Subsequently, shaft life dropped to something (...) (23 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.duplo, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: container car
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(...) Yes and no. I've had this idea to mount the wheelset like this when I made my wheel car a while ago(it's in my brickshelf gallery somewhere). I tried using the 1x2w/door rail then and didn't come up with anything that worked well. But I (...) (23 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: container car
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(...) Is that your idea, Chris??? Well whoever it is, that's pretty clever! I knew the wheelsets popped out but had never thought to try to figure out how to mount them. Bravo. (23 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: container car
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(...) thanks chris, I will look into that. but i am thinking of making the ends a little different by adding latters and details to the trucks , then attaching car body over it, the middle portion as you see it, is done, not much left to add (23 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: container car
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(...) I'm glad to see that some people are using my idea :) From looking in the recent brickshelf galleries- I can see that Ondrew Hartigan has made a spine car using and expaded version of the wheelset idea: (URL) cars look great but here are a few (...) (23 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: I'm back! (In a limited sort of way)
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(...) Hey there Tony! ever get the chance to perfect the DUPLO® 'autostart' device? I wonder what new trains they have in mind for this summer? -Harvey (23 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.duplo, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: container car
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(...) larry they are the 9 volt train wheels in some 1 x 2 w/ door rails (URL) (23 years ago, 31-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: container car
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(...) (23 years ago, 31-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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hey lego train guys, i got a design based uppon james mathias's container car (URL) design can have a truck trailer as well. soon i will add DAT file (23 years ago, 31-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Six Car Airport Shuttle
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We (NCLTC) have a show coming up next weekend (April 6th and 7th) and one of the things I had hoped to get done for the show was two additional cars for my Airport Shuttle (it was already four cars long). Well I was able to get all of the parts to (...) (23 years ago, 31-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: I'm back! (In a limited sort of way)
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(...) Welcome back, Harvey! I've been wondering what happened to you ever since I dealt with you on BrickBay->BrickLink. I find it interesting that Lego did a better job with an F7 in the Duplo domain than in the 9v system, but whatever... Anyway, (...) (23 years ago, 30-Mar-02, to lugnet.duplo, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Time to vote in the Town building contest!
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(...) last (...) No, you don't need to do it again, Josh, I got your vote. Kevin ---...--- TOWN Lego Building contest! (URL) 2396 piece kit - only one left! (URL) Lego parts store: (URL) Guild of Bricksmiths(TM): (URL) Lego Web page: (URL) (23 years ago, 29-Mar-02, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 7740 Instructions
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Wow! I can't believe how many people have sent me a mail already. I'm overwhelmed but very grateful! One of the guys who's replied actually has an original set for sale and I think he lives in the same German city that I do! If only real life were (...) (23 years ago, 29-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.uk)
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