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(...) menu's. Thats the beaty with this lovely technology Dan (23 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.eu)
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They are back. Just ordered 3 and 2 of 10025 and 10022 Paul Sinasohn LUGNET #115 (23 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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First of all i would like to say nice work. As a shay builder also i have a keen interest in what you have done. I know a little about shays, I researched them before I built my engine, and log cars/ log loader. (unfortunatly I don't have pictures (...) (23 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) working on a fix and the cars should be live again shortly, if they aren't already! Jake --- Jake McKee Sr. Producer LEGO Direct (23 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) The descriptions of the Santa Fe Cars have just been improved, and also the've been moved from the incorrect map "Trains > Locomotive" to "Trains > Rail cars". But the "Rail Cars" overview page hasn't been updated yet, so for the moment you (...) (23 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.eu)
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(...) Hi It seems, they have been taken off the website again. Perhaps bacause of incorrect description???. See (URL) (23 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) "Sorry, item is not available in this country." Lovely ;-( -alex (23 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Um, John? You own WAY, WAY too many 1x2 clear plates ;-) Where did you get them all, BTW? (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (23 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) excellent. Love it. later, James Mathis (23 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) amount of detail he gets on his 2-wide trains. The micro-city is great as well. Bruce (23 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) Thanks for the Info! Maybe the have changed the norms? A few years ago at least all no-nammes have been ca 2..3 mm longer and could not be placed in the 810, 107, 103 and 102 battery boxes. Regards, Ben (23 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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My son Ross informs me that he has built the *first* Twin Cities LEGO Train Club layout-- in miniature! And so while we labor on building the second (;-) TCLTC layout, I proudly present Ross's latest MOC: (URL) Ross has been into building mini-scale (...) (23 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org) !
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(...) I ordered mine! James, will you sign the building-instructions ;-) ? Jeroen. (23 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Well I think something is definitely wrong. Whether it is the website or the catalog, I don't know, since I don't know much about trains either. I get the pictures on the website as follows (compared to catalog): 10022 (...) (23 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Uhm, that would be (URL) can hear the cries already: "But it passed the spell-checker!"... <grin> And kudos to the fine folks at the PNLTC. They've been setting the standard for all clubs on the 'net for many years now! JohnG, GMLTC come see (...) (23 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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...snipped... (...) ...snipped... First off, congrats. You've been a wonderful example for clubs all over. The PNLTC has certainly been the mentor and model for a great many of Lego train clubs. You may have some trouble with the first club claim (...) (23 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Here are direct links: Sante Fe Cars Set I (URL) Fe Cars Set II (URL) I'm a little confused. I'm looking at the Fallen Flags site for reference: (URL) descriptions at shop.lego.com don't seem to match the cars correctly. For example, 10022 SF Cars (...) (23 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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Hi Just visited the Lego website. The new Santa Fe cars can now be preordered. Seems like they will be available in Europe before the US. In Denmark, 20 and 31 august. In the US, 6 september and 8 october. whoohoo. Kecia Hansen (23 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains) !
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(...) ??? The rechargeable NiHM C-type as sold by Duracell or the NiCAD as sold by Panasonic are the same size, at least they fit fine in my old 4.5v Technic box and the square box as in 810. -- Jan-Albert van Ree (23 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi fans of 4.5V stuff! I just wanted to share a little trick, how to use the cheap AA-rechargable cells instead of the C-type batteries. And you cannot use C-sizes rechargables, since these are longer (heaven knows why). You can take simply (...) (23 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Congratulations, PNLTC! You guys have been pioneers, inspiring the LTC movement, and a model for all of us to follow. As I may have mentioned before, I was just coming on line in late '97 and I remember somehow finding the PNLTC site and being (...) (23 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Just for historial sake, it started like this... Ben Fleskes drove from Portland to Seattle to visit Will Chapman during his solo effortLEGO train layout. I think Will had done a few of these prior to this one. At Will's layout Ben met Dan Parker (...) (23 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Tick-tick-tick...That's the sound of PNLTC's site counter tilting 100,000 hits! The Pacific Northwest LEGO Train Club is proud to announce that the 100,000th visitor viewed our site today at approximately 3:21 p.m. Pacific Time. The current PNLTC (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains) !
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(...) Fantastic work Shaun! You really have created a Master Model. All the small detailing parts makes it look so good. Good use of the 'string parts' (or what they now are called) from the Camel set. Beautiful and very inventive cowcatcher of (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
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The VLC (Vancouver Lego CLub) did something like this last Xmas... we had a large store in a local mall, set up about 50 ft total of window displays starting at the bginning of Dec, added to and changed them as the month wore on, then did a 2-day (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi Shaun, I'm stunning. Deeply impressed by your work. Thank you for the detailed information in your posting. Otherwise I would not have noticed the double piston and the flickering flames. So much details and love in it. The margin is much higher (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Here is an example for adding power... (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Of course, I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that in the BrickFest 2002 general competition (I don't know about the Town/Train room's own competition, someone can maybe fill me in?) Shaun's 4-6-4 Hudson took the award for "Best Train." Given (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Wow, Shaun, you have outdone even yourself here! You have raised the bar so high that it will be extremely difficult to top. Your double piston rod design is nothing short of amazing; Ross was extremely impressed! (a higher compliment I can't (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Nice looking trains cars Ludo! I also like the locomotives you have CAD rendered. Keep up the great work and looking forward to site rebuild... Robin W Greater Florida LEGO Train Club - www.gfltc.org (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thanks, Josh! (and Josh's father) -s (23 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hi James, Thanks for the comments. I have to say again, it was an honor meeting you at Brickfest. I've been mulling over some of the things we talked about, and I have some promising thought on how I can incorporate some of your ideas into an (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I spent several hours at work today drooling over your Shay. Any chance we'll get to see a little movie clip of the mechanism working? I'll reply more to your Shay in another post :) (...) Luckily, the mosaic set is pure bullion for 1x1s. For (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi Shaun, (...) That's absolutely incredible. The outline is just right, with a fantastic sense of power and presence, particularly in the low-angle pictures. And then all the details. Ah, the details. Wonderful. (...) <snip excellent implementation (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thanks! It's predominately 12-wide, going to about 14-wide over the cab steps, windowsills, and cylinders. Scarily, I started with the same trucks and an 8-wide chassis. I rebuilt this to 10-wide when I thought it looked a bit puny, and ended (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Thanks for the kind words! (...) Only in the sense of "I fancy making some log cars", no designs or anything. I can see at least two issues with this: * I don't have anything like enough brown to make logs, so the load'll probably be real wood. * (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi all, I added some pictures of passenger & freight cars to my home page, witch i'm completely re-building. goto : (URL) and select Trains & cars I hope you like them. Regards, Ludo (23 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) It is not as bad as it used to be! Recent safty improvements on the chain to the top and on the seat belt system have reduced fatalities down to only a few a day, instead of several dozen per day of operation. :) I'll try and get some more (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
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WOW, that looks NICE, my dad though it was a model, not lego! If i had the time i'd build like that Josh (23 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thanks. The gallery has just been moderated so you can see the rest of the pictures now. Including the 'wrong' side, which is very rarely pictured in real Shays (it's just not as cool) and so quite possibly totally wrong. (...) They'd dwarf my (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
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