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(...) It's definitely good to see the example expanding. Remember PNLTC did this last year... I hope we manage again this year because it's a lot of fun (and it was real cool that the place we did it at was 5 minutes from my apartment). Frank (21 years ago, 9-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.ga)
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(...) Is there any chance that an inventory could be made available? (21 years ago, 9-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) ...Sounds great for NGLTC and great fun too! Hopefully other places will see the example and we may see the idea expand! Maybe I'll get a chance to visit someday too :-) --- wubwub wubwub@wildlink.com Jain's Guide www.wildbrick.com Start (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.ga)
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Okay I have noticed that here at Lugnet, the set number for the new Level Crossing is 10028, yet on Lego Shop@Home it is 10128! Even in Lugnet's set guide, the actual level crossing is listed as 10028 and 10128 as the same set ecept with 'question (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Ah assumption, we meet again. Actually all the ILTCO pictures were images that I took myself as part of the sneak peek process (thus the reason the third straight was left off). I wanted to make sure that ILTCO was the first group in the world (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I saw that they were really old pictures but if you look at the menu of ILTCO, you will see that it is the sane small pic as the one on Shop@Home, so therefore they had other pictures of the version that was to be released. Also, I noticed (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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Here are a few pictures of the outside of the club house: (URL) It's very strange being in there with the mall crowd, it's like living in a fish bowl. I would look up for working time to time and the entire store front would be covered in people (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.ga)
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I've had this depot building hanging around half-done for a while, but I just recently finished the interior and took some better photos. After moderation: (URL) building assembled (URL) into sections (URL) furniture :-) (URL) Mall is back: (URL) (...) (21 years ago, 7-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc)
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Thats a terrific point. Too bad watching this snail at full throttle is is like something like watching grass grow. I actually was going to pull the motor out and give up, but nice people at Lego are sending me a replacement engine. So for now the (...) (21 years ago, 7-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) <snip> (...) "It's not a bug, it's a feature!" Hey, before you go souping this baby up, remember that for a model of an inspection car, slow is particularly appropriate. In my opinion, most LEGO trains spend way too much of the time going way (...) (21 years ago, 7-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) it! Here, David Koudys made a post about this: (URL) Anyway, this is what I did this evening in about 10 minutes. I cut both rails (...) inches) (...) isolated. (...) used (...) track (...) than (...) of (...) lights (...) I tried this and 5cm (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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Wow! What great news! That is really great! Congrats to you all! I'll have to send a mini-fig likeness of myself to add to the display. Please post pictures of course. Great news again, congrats. (I can just see the smile of Scott's face) :) Eric (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.ga)
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Dean, I am sure that is a very good system you have worked out there but for my part the need to do it all in Pure Lego somehow seemed less important once I had steeled myself to cut open those motors and install the decoders! Besides, I don't have (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | NGLTC Discover Mills store "Club House"
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I am proud to announce that the North Georgia LEGO Train Club (NGLTC) will be getting their own store front at the Discover Mills Outlet mall (same mall as the LEGO Outlet store) just outside of Atlanta. The mall has agreed to give NGLTC an empty (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.ga, lugnet.loc.us.ga.atl, lugnet.general) !
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| | The NGLTC fleet just got bigger...
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It always seems that the biggest limit to the size of our layout is having a way to get it all there. This week I bought a new trailer to haul the clubs stuff. Also it will become the storage container for the majority of the show related stuff (ie. (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: PNLTC Contact...
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(...) Hey Will, thanks for being helpful! Prolly best not to post emails in cleartext any more as it defeats the code that Todd put in to hide them, though. See you in Seattle in 2004??? (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Getting myself on solid ground (after 2 plane flights)
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Try & ship the lego in the picture below, its like $25 in a box, theres over $300 worth just sitting there, covering my bed! I'm happy to say I'll be able to show off more MOC's soon, as I ALSO have THREE packages of my own lego coming, over $50 in (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org.scltc)
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(...) I only have the single buffers, but from analyzing the dat file of 4022 and comparing with my buffers, the ruond shapes seem identical. I think I've made this part sometime long ago, but for some reason it was never submitted. It is probably (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: DCC reversing loops
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(...) Darn, I forgot to mention that to isolate the track take a sheet of paper. Standard photocopy paper works well. Cut it into quarter inch strips. Then place it between the track and you join it. Then use your nail and cut of the excess. Do this (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hi Dave. One of these two guys should be able to help you: Dan Parker - Federal Way, Washington (dnvpark@gte.net) Steve Barile - Hillsboro, Oregon (sebarile@sstanamera.com) ---Will (21 years ago, 5-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: DCC reversing loops
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(...) I did a dual reversing loop for our club layout. You don't need to cut anything. You can do it all lego pure. (URL) picture will show how to connect that unconnected inner rail to the proper power. Use a standard track connector and then use a (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 10128 Level Crossing on Shop-At-Home
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(...) Yep, that's correct. The photos I sent ILTCO were very prelim pics. Jake --- Jake McKee Community Development Manager - N. America LEGO Direct (21 years ago, 5-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Thing that happen when you are on holiday...
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Hi all, When I got home today (from a well deserved vacation in beautiful France) I recieved a message to congratulate me with the Lugnet Cool Site of the Week. Wow! Thanks for all who voted. Jeroen (21 years ago, 5-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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| | 10128 Level Crossing on Shop-At-Home
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10128 is now on Shop-At-Home: (URL) to be available in early September for North America and early August elsewhere. US $50 325 Pieces Looks like it comes with three straight tracks, not two. -PD (21 years ago, 5-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Pictures from VLC Surrey Museum Show
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(...) Wow. Doing a period layout is just too cool. We (MichLUG) have talked about it, but that conversation has never gone far. I also really like the track layout going all over the place. Neat. The fact that the layout was able to get away from (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jun-03, to lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.trains)
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| | Train buffers
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Does anyone have both the single train buffer from the seventies and the double train buffers (4022) ? Are the shapes of the round buffer identical ? Why am I asking this? I have just received a couple of single train buffers and I want to create (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.trains)
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| | DCC reversing loops
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I am sure I saw someone writing about reversing loops but now I can't find it! Anyway, this is what I did this evening in about 10 minutes. I cut both rails of a straight track section being careful to get the cuts aligned then did another cut (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Now that is really impressive. The pictures look great, but I would love to be able to set up an RCX controlled layout with reversing loops, etc. Now, if I could just afford those RCX's... :-( BTW, my compliments on the layout. Wonderful job. (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jun-03, to lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.trains)
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| | MOC: European old timer trucks from the fifties
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Hi all, after a visit (URL) of this cool site with hundreds of European oldtimer trucks> and building machinery, I got inspired to do my own Lego® truck in a similar style. (URL) Such kind of trucks have been used for any transport purposes over (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jun-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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| | PNLTC Contact...
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Could someone direct me to a rep. for PNLTC? I have a contact from NMRA who wishes to get in contact with someone from the Seattle area for the show in 2004--they seem to be very enthusiastic about having a LEGO train layout/presence at the show in (...) (21 years ago, 4-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| | a few more 'Challenger' pictures
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I uploaded four more pictures to my Challenger folder, but these are pictures of the real thing. The Challenger visited the Twin Cities last Summer, and I had to see it in person. As you can tell in the pictures, it was *pouring* rain that day, but (...) (21 years ago, 4-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New Lime/Green railcar set
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(...) Bad form I kow replying to my own message, and an old one at that but I thought I better correct myself if anyone was searching the archives Its actually a Graham Farish (now owned by Bachmann) N scale model, the coupling were the give-away (...) (21 years ago, 4-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: MOC Streamliner Observation Car
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(...) All that stainless steel (trains) aluminium (houses) and chrome (automobiles) must have made the the US citizens of the 50's "shiny happy people"!!! ... and these chrome bricks do it for me now! Lets have some more ..... (21 years ago, 4-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I heard it was due to cheap electricity in the NW part of the US. Bauxite smelting can make good use of cheap electricity. (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Even more Wow!! for your buck!!! was Re: Woo Hoo!!!!! (part deux...)
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(...) Brilliant! (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Thanks for the link. As for why aluminum became so cheap, not sure. Maybe there was a lot of scrap metal from WWII being recycled? -Stefan- (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Even more Wow!! for your buck!!! was Re: Woo Hoo!!!!! (part deux...)
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All these polarity-switching solutions presume only 1 train. If you've got 3 trains, and each of them is hitting a block boundary at the same time, you're going to have a short no matter what you do. Best solution for DCC is to get your insulated (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Even more Wow!! for your buck!!! was Re: Woo Hoo!!!!! (part deux...)
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(...) Just so you know, if you want to accomplish the same thing without sawing on your track, get some clear 3M tape and stick it on the inside face of each rail. You have to put some between the tabs connecting to the next piece of rail, too. You (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Even more Wow!! for your buck!!! was Re: Woo Hoo!!!!! (part deux...)
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(...) Going to try that tonite--I own only 4 loco motors, and 3 are now converted to DCC. Hopefully I'll get my hands on about 3-4 more motors and convert 'em. But tonight I'll run 2 motors on one engine on one DCC channel and test that. I think it (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Even more Wow!! for your buck!!! was Re: Woo Hoo!!!!! (part deux...)
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(...) An easy solution to this is to have two locomotives in the train, each tuned to the same DCC channel. If one loco loses communication, the other will push it through the bad spots... That probably why real trains have two locos, right? :) (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Even more Wow!! for your buck!!! was Re: Woo Hoo!!!!! (part deux...)
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, David Koudys wrote: <snip> (...) And here's 'more playing...' (URL) two pics, but fun ones... One of these pics shows how old my ccd in my digital camera is--all the 'blank' pixels. Eh, it still works and is now on (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 10028 Level Crossing Sneak Peek!
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(...) Actually LEGO has offered at least one 4-wide train and that was in 1965, prior to the introduction of the track: set 323. The 1966 trainset 111 (with track) has already 6-wide plates, but the engine is 2-wide with a 4-wide cab ;-) Niels (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Vose Inspection Car MOC
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(...) front (...) the (...) well, you can only sit on that kind of inspiration for long. Here it is... the motorized version (beta .01a) Vose Inspection Car. (URL) Vose is powered by a custom fitted drag wire connected micro motor housed in the (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: MOC Streamliner Observation Car
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What's "The Tin Men" about? Never heard of it. Tin Men (URL) a train movie but very funny all the same ... why did aluminium become cheap in the US at that time? In the 1950s. Steve (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 10028 Level Crossing Sneak Peek!
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(...) <grin> (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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hey thanks... i didn't want to use the snot on top, but without the top of those long wedge slopes, there was the option of making it work, or buying the parts off bricklink. In the end i'm not sure but I think that the studs only in the middle is a (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Vose Inspection Car MOC
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hey Shaun, thanks for the cudos. I have to say that I've been wanting to build train for real ever since seeing the article where lego gave you props for that awsome steamer you made. So know that you had a great hand in the inspiration of this MOC. (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Even more Wow!! for your buck!!! was Re: Woo Hoo!!!!! (part deux...)
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(...) Yep--Larry hit it on the head--the isolated section is so there isn't one set of wheels on one polarity, and the other set of wheels on the reverse polarity-- (see if this font is really courier ;) ) ###...### Track TTTTT O O ###...### Track (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Even more Wow!! for your buck!!! was Re: Woo Hoo!!!!! (part deux...)
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(...) The latter I think... by having a truck long gap, the motor coasts across the gap but never shorts out from one wheel set to the other, once it hits the powered side again (even though the polarity is reversed) it just continues on. This is (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yeah, I hadn't thought about that. And I made a slight error in my observation; I kept thinking your observation was closed-end, not open end. In which case the manufacturer would be K-Line for O gauge. They have the same effect though. (...) (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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Cool inspection car! Definitely captures the look of the original, especially with the use of the curved wedges. It's hard to use those in a prototypical model, but you definitely got it. As for powering it, I don't know where you could stuff the (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Segregation is finally abandoned on the Burlington Northern
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(...) yes I would ... and be happy to do so ... and how do I? .. or who do I send it to? (...) yes I did ... but it crashed into all the scenery!!! Only half-kidding ... but even long engines like my Alco PA-1 have clearance problems ... but I have (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Even more Wow!! for your buck!!! was Re: Woo Hoo!!!!! (part deux...)
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(...) Okay, yeah, my memory of what I too used to do years ago got cross-wired. Then I guess I don't understand the set-up that is causing his need for a gap to be crossed. Is it a DCC related issue or simply him not reversing the polarity of the (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Heya Travis, I saw the pictures of this on Brickshelf even before you posted, and I was blown away. I would love to see some sort of automation added to this, so that it could tool around, even if it had to be slowly, on some small (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 10028 Level Crossing Sneak Peek!
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(...) I couldn't follow the paragraph either and I wrote it. I was taking a break from writing a research paper and analyzing a SPSS data set, and wrote a lightning quick idiotic post. I hope you read my apology that followed. (...) Do you need any (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Even more Wow!! for your buck!!! was Re: Woo Hoo!!!!! (part deux...)
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(...) That diagram is divided into two blocks. One for the approaches, and one for the reverse loop itself. That's standard wiring, been done that way since I was a wee lad, there's no need to divide the reverse loop itself into two blocks. With (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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| | Pictures from VLC Surrey Museum Show
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(URL) Our first show for 2003. It is a layout of Vancouver at the turn of the century to about 1930's. Details to follow if anyone has questions or comments. (21 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.ca) !!
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(...) Oh great, you noticed the narrow gauge! I was hoping that laying the kids on the track wasn't for not! :) SteveB (21 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Segregation is finally abandoned on the Burlington Northern
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(...) <snippage> (...) Just a thought, would you ever consider writting an article on combining Lego trains with 'conventional' model railroad scenery for perhaps lego.com/trains or maybe trains.com? I'm sure both 'traditional' model railroaders and (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Even more Wow!! for your buck!!! was Re: Woo Hoo!!!!! (part deux...)
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K, got some prelim pics up-- (URL) too much, but it's a start. If we could get a yea or nay on DCC for "What was formerly known as NMRA but is not anymore but will be called something else 'cause the show must go on" train show, my vote is "yea". (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | belug is born
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hello everybody, just to let everybody know, espicially the belgian people amongst you guys, that there now exists the first belgian lego user group. go check it out at www.belug.be everybody join, they are only two weeks old. greetings, Michael. (21 years ago, 1-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Even more Wow!! for your buck!!! was Re: Woo Hoo!!!!! (part deux...)
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(...) loop divided into 2 power blocks, rather than one as in the above diagram. With 3 power blocks you can always switch the block the train is heading toward to be compatible with the block it is in so there is never a gap to cross. Once the (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Segregation is finally abandoned on the Burlington Northern
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(...) I've never done any modelling apart from Lego. So these pictures are my real laypout. I started using non-lego like this when I began a round-the-room track and realised it was too impractical to build lego scenery. I use the conventional (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I'll bite... tell us more about the scenery that's used for the setting. Maybe I haven't been paying attention but this is the first time I can recall someone using conventional MR scenery for a LEGO backdrop. Is that scenery from an existing (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Segregation is finally abandoned on the Burlington Northern
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Finally the "equal but separate" facilities stricture of the "jim crow" laws have been abandoned. (URL) on my Burlington Northern EMD F9 with streanliner consist all minifigs can enjow the journey together. (URL) and crits welcome. I'd like to thank (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: MOC Streamliner Observation Car
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(...) ... oh OK, don't get much chance to see Lionel stuff overe here!!! (...) Thanks for the prototype info ... Its cool to learn stuff like this ...I always thought it was aluminium ... but I guess the fad for all thing aluminium came later in the (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Even more Wow!! for your buck!!! was Re: Woo Hoo!!!!! (part deux...)
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Yes, you can automate the reversing loops. In fact, using the RCX to do so should be fairly simple, except that it takes 2 of them to do it. (Just using 1 rail for now-) (rcx a)rail-gap-rail(rcx b) The two of them set the polarity the same, such (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Even more Wow!! for your buck!!! was Re: Woo Hoo!!!!! (part deux...)
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(...) Urp, in the below, when i posted it before, none of the urls are clickable! Sorry about that. And "snip" inside angle brackets IS clickable.... I'm confused. XFUT admin.nntp... (21 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Even more Wow!! for your buck!!! was Re: Woo Hoo!!!!! (part deux...)
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, David Koudys wrote: <snip> Regarding reverse loops and DCC I seem to recall that it's possible to automate them so you don't have to cut gaps that the motor has to coast across See this track diagram (URL) consider what (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Even more Wow!! for your buck!!! was Re: Woo Hoo!!!!! (part deux...)
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So a few friends gather--talk of DCC comes up. Well, I just happen to have a DCC compiled RCX in my dufflebag and 3 converted LEGO motors (with engines that look remarkably similar to mine--oh wait, they were mine...) So we set up an impromtu layout (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Vose Inspection Car MOC
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well guys, Thanks to a recent sale at target.com I have my first train parts to work with. Here is my first MOC, the Vose Inspection Car. (URL) I found it at the following website while looking for a steam engine that was from my part of the country (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: 10028 Level Crossing Sneak Peek!
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(...) Well, it seems similar in size and detail to other rail vehicles: (URL) I, for one, don't want a 6 wide baseplate. Why? I've got hundreds of 4 wide (...) Um... I can't follow that last paragraph. I'm not sure what you mean about 4-wide trains. (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 10028 Level Crossing Sneak Peek!
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In lugnet.trains, Bert Waters should not have posted: (...) Where was I coming from? I was taking a break from writing a methodological critique that is due today when I wrote this lame brain post. I guess the regression analysis scrambled my cortex (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hi Steve, yes I actually do like it and in comparison to the time maybe 4...5 year ago I do not care about spraying sawing or modifying parts in any other way. I am really relaxed about what people do with their stuff as long as they like it. (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 7-wide mania continued......
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(...) Hi James, that is right: the shovels have an overhanging of a quarter of the height of an plate which is in metric system 1/4 x 3.2 mm = 0.8 mm per each waggon side. This is a very useful side effect, because by doing so I can put plates (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Modified (and improved) "Challenger" model
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I first posted this a while ago: (URL) the last several weeks, I've come up with some improvements. I redesigned the 'guide' mechanism, instead of using the small train wheels I'm using cut (gasp!) pieces of Technic flex tubing. This allows the (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: MOC Streamliner Observation Car
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(...) I know that, I was referring to the look of the models. Lionel Trains once made streamliners where the end cap which was a seperate component was chromed, while the body was duller flat silver-ish chrome-y color. (...) EMDs. Electro-Motive (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 10028 Level Crossing Sneak Peek!
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(...) Yes, I see your point, but is the rail vehicle worth $10 U.S.? Everyone who is a "trainhead" wants a Level Crossing at $30 but we are hesitant to purchase one at $50. I, for one, don't want a 6 wide baseplate. Why? I've got hundreds of 4 wide (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 10028 Level Crossing Sneak Peek!
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In lugnet.trains, John P. Henderson wrote: <snip> (...) <snip> Hmm. Is it possible that the tower and the crossing are actually unrelated? Judging from the yard diagram and monitors in the tower, it looks to be a yard tower. Perhaps knowledgable (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Cargo Train 4512 missing decals
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In lugnet.trains, Bert Waters made another grammatical error: (...) I wouldn't be so embarrassed if I weren't sitting here not working on my research methods homework instead of obsessing over a poorly written sentence in a Lugnet post. BW (21 years ago, 31-May-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Cargo Train 4512 missing decals
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I received the Cargo Train yesterday and built it late last evening. I didn't find the decals. I emailed Lego Direct and should hear a response Monday. I'm not too worried about getting the decals. From my experiences so far, LD is great with (...) (21 years ago, 31-May-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Top 10 List involving Monorail
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(...) Brad (...) rerelease (...) lost, (...) ground up. Looking at the number of new sets that have come out recently containing customized eletronics and/or motors, I find this to be a pretty lame excuse. Many of these sets are one-of-a-kind. (...) (21 years ago, 31-May-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 10028 Level Crossing Sneak Peek! (lower price, perhaps?)
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(...) I'm not normally one for 'me too' posts, though I'll make an exception in this case. I definately think this would be a great $30 set but would only be fair as a $50 set. (21 years ago, 31-May-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: 10028 Level Crossing Sneak Peek!
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(...) now automated - Bacchus Marsh also has a small interlocking which is the reason they retain a signal box. Also Kooyong (URL) has one, but that is because there's a tram line crossing there too, as is the case with Gardiner (sorry no link). (...) (21 years ago, 31-May-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 10028 Level Crossing Sneak Peek!
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Hi folks "Saskia van Doesburg" <info@doesdigitals.nl> wrote in message news:HFqtpI.21JK@lugnet.com... (...) is (...) any (...) Here in the UK crossings like this are a fairly common site in less urban areas (small towns and villages), but are (...) (21 years ago, 31-May-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Red Engine
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Hello and here my German Red Engine: <img src="(URL) More: < href="(2 URLs)/a> Greetings from Europe Christian (21 years ago, 31-May-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 10028 Level Crossing Sneak Peek!
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"Hendo (John P. Henderson)" <hendo@valyance.com> schreef in bericht news:HFpz4u.Dzy@lugnet.com... [snip] (...) a (...) think I (...) but (...) [snip] (...) Well, I live in Europe (The Netherlands) and I've never seen a tower of any kind next to a (...) (21 years ago, 31-May-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: DCC for the RCX
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In lugnet.robotics.rcx, Mark Riley wrote: <snip> (...) This is what I did to make it work for me... All my microcontrollers out of the bag were on "loco 3"--that is when I used the remote, all 3 motors worked when I used the C up/down and 3 button (...) (21 years ago, 31-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: DCC for the RCX
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(...) I thought that the little doohickey that goes across the motor inputs on the electric motor in the housing was a diode--don't quite remember where i picked up that idea, but a 'noise reducing' thing makes more sense. Anyway, i'll go get a (...) (21 years ago, 31-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: DCC for the RCX
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(...) When you say LEGO diodes, are you sure you aren't referring to the thermistor that some DCC mods have you remove? Maybe I'm confused of course... whose conversion instructions did you follow? (21 years ago, 31-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: DCC for the RCX
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(...) have a (...) diodes (at (...) I think those are probably some sort of noise suppression device, not diodes. At least they don't "diode" when I hook'em to my meter. Another clue is there's no band on one end. Could be one of those "free to good (...) (21 years ago, 31-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Woo Hoo!!!!! (part deux...)
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Mark Riley wrote: <snip> (...) Well, after a few hours of "extensive tests"... I have come to the following conclusion-- This is the greatest thing since LEGO came out with 9v trains and the RCX. Forget the track cleaner (...) (21 years ago, 31-May-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: DCC for the RCX
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Hi Dryden, DCC sends information to the decoders by flipping the polarity of the power supply in a specific timing sequence. So, it's not like the X-10 protocol. To get more power to run more locomotives, you need something called a DCC booster. The (...) (21 years ago, 31-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Woo Hoo!!!!! (part deux...)
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Thanks for the nice comments, Dave. (...) track? (...) Yes, the humming is "normal" - my sample base being two RCXs. :-) Sorta reminds me of that buzzing you hear around high voltage power lines. (...) being (...) track--I (...) Can a (...) control (...) (21 years ago, 31-May-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 10028 Level Crossing Sneak Peek! (lower price, perhaps?)
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(...) Awww....crap. LEGO, if you are listening, please lower the price! I'm not quite so enthusiastic about this set anymore... :-( Admiral Wells T-SEC / THDC Division (21 years ago, 31-May-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| | Re: DCC for the RCX
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(...) Got the programming part--all motors on differnt Loco #'s--figured it out. I wouldn't mind building that Ack circuit though, so any advice on using hte LEGO diodes would be helpful. I'm having a great time--and by the way, as mentioned on the (...) (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: DCC for the RCX
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(...) Hey Mark, I posted earlier in a new thread praising the greatness of this, but I have a few additional questions that I thought I'd just ad to this thread-- I converted 3 LEGO motors with the micro-controller, and now have 3 diodes (at least, (...) (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Real pics of the White Pass & Yukon Route
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(...) Hey those are cute. Track speeders in 3 foot gauge are even cuter than normal. I'm thinking this one would make a neat model: (URL) would take a lot of green and brown bricks for the backdrop though! What a mountain! (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: DCC for the RCX
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(...) hmm, color codes and being color blind dont really match well indeed... as far as electronic components go, I'm just a hobbyist. My day job is programming ;) Esger (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.trains)
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| | Real pics of the White Pass & Yukon Route
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Some pics of real trains in Skagway, AK. Another source is a Google image search on "White Pass & Yukon Route." (URL) (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.trains)
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