 | | PNLTC Mall Show - One More Public Weekend & Pics Up From Previous!
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Back by popular demand, the Pacific Northwest Lego Train Club will be hosting an additional public weekend on August 24th and August 25th at the Beaverton Mall (outside Portland, OR). For those of you who have missed our two previous public (...) (22 years ago, 9-Aug-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.or.por) !
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I believe that involved an Amtrak train here in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Of course there was nothing left of the driver, and yes one of the victims still had their hands wrapped around the steering wheel when he fried to a crisp. -Harvey (22 years ago, 9-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) There was a similar accident many years ago involving a truck full of fuel and a train colliding. Unfortunately it was during rush hour on a busy boulevard. There were many fatalities. The engineer survived. The train was going fast enough to (...) (22 years ago, 9-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Santa Fe Car Order
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(...) Oops I did it again! This is going rather well, don't ya think? Must have been sleeping while I did the piece count. ;-) Actually it is 10 elements that are left when you have built the RPO car: 4 light grey train doors (2 left, 2 right) 4 (...) (22 years ago, 9-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 10025 Santa Fe Cars I - just received them!!
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(...) Hi Sorry, but I don't have the Green Goblin. "Pearl" could be a right description, and they ARE kind of shiny, especially if you hold them into the light. But I would not say that they are transparent, nor that you can see a little way into (...) (22 years ago, 9-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 10025 Santa Fe Cars I - just received them!!
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(...) Has anyone got a Green Goblin hover-thingy then? The 2x6 printed slope/curve are in a sort of "pearl-silver" (is that a good enough description?) like some of the bricks I got from LLW. It looks like a slightly transparent shiny grey. You can (...) (22 years ago, 9-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Great train wrecks
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(...) Locomotives: (URL) the SD-60's involved in a rear-end run away: (URL) (22 years ago, 9-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Great train wrecks (was: Just couldn't resist posting this one...)
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(...) (URL) (22 years ago, 8-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Just couldn't resist posting this one...
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Take a look at when a 75-car freight train and 8000+ gallons of diesel fuel meet at a crossing... (URL) (22 years ago, 8-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Letter to the NMRA
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(...) And the 2004 National Convention will be in Seattle: (URL) just *guessing* that the PNTLC will be there in force! Hmmm... I might have to plan on a trip to Seattle in 2004. :-) JohnG, GMLTC (22 years ago, 8-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: First MOC - Galloping Goose #6
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It's the goose that laid the golden egg. That's a fine piece of work you have there, and I especially like the nose section with the front wheels...looks very Galloping Goose-like. I assume the train motor is in the rear section? -Harvey (22 years ago, 8-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | First MOC - Galloping Goose #6
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Well, almost 2 years in the making, I've finally come up with an MOC that I can post. Short version: Denver & Rio Grande utility engine #6, a Galloping Goose variant. Pictures are on Brickshelf at: (URL) version: About two years ago, I helped BAYLTC (...) (22 years ago, 8-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc)
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| | Re: Santa Fe Car Order
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(...) Oops Mail car is 16 elements, if you count door and window as 2 different pieces. 12 if you count them as 1. Kecia (22 years ago, 8-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Santa Fe Car Order
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(...) Hi Dan The light grey 1 x 2 x 2's below the Santa Fe text are bricks. Building the bagage car will leave you with the 47 element all together. If you are building the mail car, you will have 12. Kecia (22 years ago, 8-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Santa Fe Car Order
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I was reading about the Santa Fe in some old magazines and they had a car order from a excursion in 1991. It was pulled by a Northern(S.F. 3751)* and 2 backup Dash 8-40CW Diesels(844 and 840). 3463 Baggage(Tool) Car* 77 Baggage Car 67 Sleeper "Regal (...) (22 years ago, 8-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I read this and I thought 'how Lego-obsessed must he be to re-arrange his holiday' until I realised that that's exactly what I've done in postponing going to the Edinburgh Festival for two days so I can go on the Legoland Windsor 'modelmaking (...) (22 years ago, 8-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Ouch :( That's frustrating indeed! Well I was supposed to drive of on holiday today, but just before I went out the door the postman brought me a package... S@H with my roof and red 1*x bricks! So I immediately postponed my vacation 1 day and (...) (22 years ago, 8-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) screen. (...) this is now much friendlier to use. I have a broadband connection here (with sometimes 400kB/s), but your pages did not load faster than 5 to 10 kB/s. So a 1-MB-picture took 100...200 seconds (3 minutes for 1 picture is simply (...) (22 years ago, 8-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Sorry about that, getting quite spoiled by broadband here... I make a second album where all pics are resized to 512*384. It can be found here (URL) other links still work, for those that like the bigger pictures. With regards, -- Jan-Albert (...) (22 years ago, 8-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Loading time is quite long and looking at such partly seen pictures is pain.... Since this a preview, a 320x240 picture would have given the same amount of information in 5% of the time it took now. (...) Read this after I had tried to open (...) (22 years ago, 8-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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