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Shaun, Thanks for the link, that's a great picture! FYI the SCLTC pic is of a two story town hall building, also a great pic! (URL) are just so cool! They remind me so much of the old Atlas (HO) models of "Houses Under Construction" SteveB (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)
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I will forward this to the club's e-mail list. ondrew (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains.org.niltc)
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Hi All, Are you planning anything from the 18th - 21st? I'm going to be in Holland, Mich and wanted to see some of the other groups. Jonathan Dallas NELUG (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains.org.niltc)
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(...) Hiya Steve, Tom Duggan made an excellent one. Here one pic I found: (URL) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) They work pretty well. I run my 12v "Grasshopper" Atlantic on 9v layouts. I have to keep it at a kind of high speed, or the motor jerks and sticks (but that may just be mine). I use the quick-and-dirty method to make it go. It's powered from (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi All, I'm planning on building, or should I say half building, a house under constuction for the next PNLTC train Show (April 17-19 in Portland). I know the SCLTC has one and I recall seeing others. If you don't mind me using some of your ideas (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)
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On behalf of the Northern Illinois Lego Train Club I would like to wish you luck on this huge endeavor. I certainly hope everything goes well and there are no big problems with the huge layout you have planed. Good luck OnDrew NILTC P.S. be sure to (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains.org)
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I would like to announce that on May 9-11 at the NMRA Southeastern Region 2003 Convention at the Chattanooga Choo Choo Holiday Inn Resort in Chattanooga Tennessee the North Georgia LEGO Train club will join forces with the MidSouth LEGO Train Club (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.fl, lugnet.loc.us.ga, lugnet.loc.us.tn, lugnet.loc.us.ar) !!
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(...) Name the time and place, buddy. I'll fill the van to the brim. I expect that at least David and Larry would be up for one, and possibly a few more besides. Lets actually look into this more, how much lead time would we need to coordinate a (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.trains.org.niltc)
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(...) Although the 9v -> 12v conversion is very nice, as you said in another post, 9v is really the way to go. In fact, I don't have any 12V track, but I am planning on getting a 7745, or possibly some other 12V trains. Of course, you can simply (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) <snip> (...) Hey All, I'm cross-posting this as there are quite a few interesting building techniques I think the community as a whole would like to see, Once again, that link is: (URL) lugnet.town, lugnet.trains Followup: lugnet.org.us.lucny (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.us.lucny, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hi Mike, it took maybe 3 hours to convert the first motor. Then I did 2 at a time and needed less than 2 hours to convert 2 motors. An that included all works: making the connecting bushes, opening the housing, drill the needed holes etc. That (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hi Cary, that sounds not to good... :-( (...) I always swapped all 4 rubber bands (at maybe 33% of all my motors - especially those that have not too much ballast but shall pull longer trains). (...) Only on 9V nowadays. In the past a few (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)
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On March 22-23, RichLUG participated in the annual Wings ‘n’ Rails Show at the Aviation Museum of Virginia ((URL) here in Richmond, VA. Here’s a link to a folder in our BrickShelf gallery that contains some pictures I took with an elderly 35 mm (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.richlug, lugnet.animation, lugnet.loc.us.va, lugnet.town)
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes: ... (...) Last night I finally got around to filing down a few of my many defective wheel sets and successfully got a single Santa Fe engine (for the first time) to pull five stock Santa Fe cars around (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)
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Apart from the concern of running the motor built for 9v at 12v Ben's method requires breaking open the casing, building the 4 contact bushes and fitting them and connecting them internally. He also says "putting things together might be a bit (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)
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In lugnet.trains, Dirk Meier writes: Hi Dirk! Thanks for sharing the pictures and some info on the prototype here and at 1000steine.de! To be honest, I do not like this creation of yours that much as I did with past designs.... That is basically (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hi all! Before anybody trys to convert his 9V train motors, I have to jump in and warn that these 9V motors are really to weak to "pull a fish from a plate" (as we say here). If one exchanges the rubber bands of the wheels against the rubber (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)
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I noticed the pictures on brickshelf a few days ago and recoqnised it immidiately; you have got the (special) design of it very well. I think that this one is hardly possible to build 8 (or less) wide, so this makes it reasonable to make it 10 wide, (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)
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As you say this is hardly possible. We did that in 2001 (www.hot.ee/sonnich/lego/ - under galleries you will find the Baltic Train Event), and found it hard (impossible) with curved rails. We used straight rail for a "border" station between the (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)
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