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(...) Yea, I guess you weren't there when the resulting accident involved your monorail train... :-) Frank (who cleverly educated himself about multiple monorail train operations using someone else's trains...) (22 years ago, 8-Oct-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.trains)
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In lugnet.space, Frank Filz writes: ... (...) Wow! I can't believe I've never noticed this! Thanks, Frank, for such a clear description of a crucial multi-train monorail operational detail. Cary (22 years ago, 8-Oct-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Call for expressions of interest: train *operation* get-together
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(...) DCC would certainly make things a lot easier, though extra power feeds would be necessary to assure all lines are powered at all times. Using one person's DCC motors would limit the locomotives used to ones where the motor can be easily (...) (22 years ago, 8-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) On the Moon Base Layout, we had 4 basically independent monorail runs. One did run right on the edge of the table and was only run when the crowd was small. Two of the runs connected via a turnout, but a station track prevented one train from (...) (22 years ago, 8-Oct-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.trains)
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James Powell wrote in message ... (...) converted (...) Thanks for the offers, James. I've been assuming that we won't be able to have DCC since 99% of people don't have converted motors etc, but if you have that many available it just might be (...) (22 years ago, 8-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) This is a real shame. These sound like pretty basic (ie avoidable) faults. Scott A =+= Have you inspected Arthur's Seat yet? (URL) reasonable man adapts himself to suit his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his (...) (22 years ago, 8-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I was going to add a small followup to this discussion last night, but it got too late. So, I'll followup to Ben's post, even though my followup is only indirectly related to what Ben is saying. Sorry about that. I've got one Santa Fe, and one (...) (22 years ago, 8-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Ben, already done! Jake --- Jake McKee Senior Producer LEGO Direct (22 years ago, 8-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Hmm. Perhaps this is a US thing (?), the only 2001 train sets we have in non-lego shops in the UK are what looks like superfluous LD stock sold at a slight discount. Scott A (...) (22 years ago, 7-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Dear Jake, I would additionally beg you to give this information into your production and quality control. Here we are all adults and train heads, our trains are not operated too much and we have tons of stuff. If I have 40 wheelsets with (...) (22 years ago, 8-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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