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(...) Thanks, I thought that was what the Extra plate might have been for. Eric Remove ".jawaspam" when replying by E-mail. (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) 20 bricks + 1 plate *below* the ties. The extra plate is used to simulate 'ballast' (the rocks that ties sit on in 'real world' trains...) J1 (remove the ".nospam" to reply, but you already knew that!) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hmmm... 20 bricks + 1 plate That is alot of basic bricks but for just one module I might be able to manage the expense in time although to have it all Red with some black mixed in, like most of what I saw of your modules would be harder. It (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Erik Brok built a rail gun (along with lots of other cool stuff...). Check out (URL) to the trains section, then the rail gun model. Alan (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Most of our modules are 30"x45", 6 of the big grey baseplates. Mainline track height is 20 bricks plus 1 plate, outer track is 4 studs from the edge, then 2 studs between the tracks. We keep the 30" edges 20 bricks tall, so we can 'mix and (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Actually, I didn't have anything to do with the display, since I live in upstate NY (the last time I made it to Minneapolis was for Steve's wedding almost two years ago). I just posted the URL here as Steve only posted it to RTL--he's the one (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Actually, I didn't have anything to do with the display, since I live in upstate NY (the last time I made it to Minneapolis was for Steve's wedding almost two years ago). I just posted the URL here as Steve only posted it to RTL--he's the one (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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Alan & all, WOW!!! What an awesome job! I am overwhelmed. Sigh, if only I had enough time! You guys should contact LG (TLG) and signify what you can do with non-juniorized sets and parts. What a stunning display. My hats and bricks off to you! :) (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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I am looking to buy the following: Train Doors with glass: Black, Blue, Yellow, Gray, Red, White - $3.00 1x4x3 Train Windows with glass: Black, Red, Blue, Yellow - $3.50 Gray, White - $4.00 1x2x3 Train Windows with glass: Gray, Black, Red, Blue, (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains)
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I'm not very good when I comes to the train department, but has anyone ever built a rail gun car or one of those supposed Cold War bullet trains that the Russians transported missles with(one is in Mission Impossible) -Blake (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Great pictures I love it!!! I was just wondering if you all have any standards set up for Modular railroading (Something similar to n-trak(1) for you model Railroaders)? If so, is there somewhere I can find the spec's? If not is there interest (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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In case you missed it on RTL, Steve's website for the train show pics is at (URL) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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There is a 4-step building instruction for the black and grey platform of the last page of the manual once you fold out this page. Unfortunately these three 'pages' have not been shown at: (URL) I can rectify that in the next day or so. Grahame Reid (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I buy a lot of trains. Ask anyone. But I won't buy a pig in a poke. The parts could be crucial to the value of the set, or not. Besides, offers for sale of items should at least be CROSS posted to market.buy-sell-trade if not CONFINED to that (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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Yes, as J1 said, we awed them. We literally are a crowd stopper. And when I say *we*, I mean it in the larger sense, as in all of us who build cool things out of Lego. What was so impressive was not anything we did specifically, but that we did it (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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Good because I won't have ours ready until sometime later this week. -john (...) front (...) detail (...) perfectly, (...) St. (...) shows (...) going (...) much (...) goals (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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Steve has a Web page set up with pics from his digital camera. I've (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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Hello, I had a quick question about 6399, the Airport Shuttle. In the instruction booklet on page 28, there is a picture of a support (Black and Gray) to the left of the platform, however there are no building instructions for it... Does this (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) A number of times people were three deep around the layout. The best views were from inside the center of the layout though (thanks to John Neal). (...) No kidding, all the rolling stock was amazing. The stuff sitting in the yard was way cool. (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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John Gerlach wrote: [snip] (...) Congratulations!!! Please post pics. - Nick - (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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