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(...) Jake, First, let me say that I am located in southeastern Massachusetts, and would certainly consider driving for a couple hours to participate in train shows with you. But your very question tips another issue that has long been festering in (...) (22 years ago, 19-Feb-03, to lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.ri, lugnet.loc.us.ma.spr, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: Train Track Design Study and presentation
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Ben, Thank you for posting the slides! Th eI will be attempting the mods this weekend and I most likely will be asking questions then. Kind Regards, Robert Powell SCLTC (22 years ago, 19-Feb-03, to lugnet.trains)
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All, Last weekend, at the Brickswest conference, I presented a talk on LEGO train track geometry. In summary, I talked about modifications to existing track and switches to make them more flexible. The presentation can be found at: (URL) reader (...) (22 years ago, 19-Feb-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Just when you think you have reached your LEGO passion limits.... (...) That's great!! That makes a lot of sense! (...) Wondeful! I will ABSOLUTELY be asking for help! ILTCO Membership, here I come! Jake --- Jake McKee LEGO Enthusiast (...) (22 years ago, 18-Feb-03, to lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.ma.spr, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) Wow Jake I thought you were pretty inspired as it was... ;-) I know we (NELUG) have been asked to do shows in Hartford, Providence, and Springfield in the past but we just havn't been able to build a large enough local base to make doing one (...) (22 years ago, 18-Feb-03, to lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.ma.spr, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Huge Castle & AT-AT & More
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...at NALUG's show yesterday at Capilano Mall (east end of Edmonton, AB) (URL) finished his awesome minifig scale AT-AT at about 2am while James was working on his huge and amazing (as usual) castle till 8am Andrew and John just got back from (...) (22 years ago, 18-Feb-03, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug, lugnet.castle, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains) !
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(...) Jake (22 years ago, 18-Feb-03, to lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.ma.spr, lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) It is a very interesting topic. My guess is that the box art is just preliminary work of a concept artist, (in pre-production) where as the models at the fair are what the company decided to go with. I hope not... I too like the old models (in (...) (22 years ago, 18-Feb-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Train crane MOC
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(...) Of course we do, we're raving mad crane lovers, it's nice to see something different then all the all terrain cranes (not that there are anything wrong with those)... Good work Chuck! Best regards, /Tobbe (URL) SPAM when e-mailing) (22 years ago, 18-Feb-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic)
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(...) I do agree that the old version was more appealing to me but I do have to make the argument that I think the color change was a good idea. I say this mostly because the change makes the set more appealing to kids and is more likely to catch (...) (22 years ago, 17-Feb-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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In lugnet.town, Brad Hamilton writes: [snip]>Passenger Train: (...) the box the train has a pantograph and 2 small windows while the "real thing" misses those. Jeroen (22 years ago, 17-Feb-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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With the latest round of 2003 postings, I noticed that two of my favorite town/train sets have new, significantly more obnoxious, colors as compared to older shots. Train station: Old: (URL) Train: (old on the box top, new as actual model in front) (...) (22 years ago, 17-Feb-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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(...) In the picture of the dockyard, the dockyard fence... is that made of rolling garage door sections?!?!?! or what? (OK now I see in a different pic, they are gratings. They look great!) Very, very nice work guys. I really like the sloped road (...) (22 years ago, 17-Feb-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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Hi folks, Here are some selected photos from the rtlToronto/train4 Lego Train Show up in warm and sunny Toronto, Ontario, Canada, this past January 18th, 2003: (URL) like to thank Jeff Elliott for organizing this layout, as well as the key builders (...) (22 years ago, 17-Feb-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains)
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| | In SoCal for a few days and looking for places to crash and people to meet and creations to photograph
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Hey SoCal, I'm having a total blast here at BricksWest meeting people and photographing creations. Some of the stuff here is just mindblowing. After BricksWest I'm actually going to be hanging around in SoCal for a few days, and then I fly out LAX (...) (22 years ago, 17-Feb-03, to lugnet.org.us.lugola, lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.loc.us.ca.la)
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(...) Have you thought about using the technique I used in my all terrain crane for elevating the boom? It provides much finer control than pneumatics, and is easily motorised! It probably also slightly less real-estate. See it at (URL) added (...) (22 years ago, 16-Feb-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic)
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(...) Cool. Thanks for the links. I notice that the Star Wars mini MTT comes with four 2x2 45° concave corner slopes in brown! Outstanding! Finally, I can get a few in Cat.A! ;-) Jason J Railton (22 years ago, 16-Feb-03, to lugnet.year.2003, lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: 5 things I would like to see from TLC/Lego Direct...
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Mark wrote: (...) Hope nobody minds me hijacking the thread... After some serious planning I decided to release a special Santa Fe B-unit, available from my Bricklink shop Brick Piles. It's designed to fit perfectly together with LEGO's A-unit. More (...) (22 years ago, 16-Feb-03, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| | Train crane MOC
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I've completed a rebuild of my site and have posted a crane. I wanted a rail crane and started out by looking at set# 8460. The result is an 8-wide with manual outriggers, a pneumatic assembly to raise and lower the boom, and powered crane assembly (...) (22 years ago, 16-Feb-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Great "Train Part" in New Spiderman Set
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Yep - this has been discussed before and it does look like it would make a great part for Lego Trains. The best thing is that it is also available in Orange and yellow in the Jack Stone type models; (URL) think I also saw a leaked JS set that had it (...) (22 years ago, 16-Feb-03, to lugnet.trains)
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