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I've just got back from doing another solo gig- isn't living in a AFOL shy area great? Anyway, I had 30' by 30-120" to play with, including the debut of two new features for me, a pond (canal) system, and "Bricstol Temple Meads". The pond kind of (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.boats)
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| | Re: Question to all the other train clubs
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(...) Smaller shows, more "fun" shows- don't go to a show that doesn't at least offer free donuts. Don't sweat the detail level- make a fun running toy train layout, and let the smiles on kids faces bring you back into it. I realistically would NOT (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains.org, FTX)
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| | Re: Track Designer Registry
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(...) I'm not sure which you are referring to, Track Designer or Track Draw... As for Track Designer, even with the source, I expect it would be a very hard port to any non Windows platform. I believe it was written in Visual Basic or Visual C++ (I (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Track Designer Registry
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:HJpp7t.166s@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) all (...) more, (...) Larry is right, while usefule TD's time has come and I expect Cary's TrackDraw application will be far (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Track Designer Registry
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(...) Actually, depending on how well its written, it might be possible to port it to linux or something. I know that there is some stuff for doing .NET on linux but: 1.its not finished and doesnt do everything microsoft version does 2.its likely (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | Melbourne W2 class tram at Myer Melbourne
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Browsing through Myer Melbourne (dept store) for LEGO bargains, I came across the following sculpture, and kinda liked it so I went back later with my camera: (URL) W2 class tram>> Here's a pic of the real thing: (URL) W2 class tram>> There's some (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-03, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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| | Re: Combines and loads (was Re: New poster by Larry Pieniazek/MTW
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(...) Can' wait to see some more detailed pictures of this model. Sounds by far more complicated as it seemed to be on the first view.... Ben (21 years ago, 16-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Question to all the other train clubs
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Sounds you like you have to prune the tree. Those who don't contribute should be expelled. Apathy is highly contagious and must be stamped out immediately. This is a hobby, and thus voluntary, but some sort of minimum contribution to the club's (...) (21 years ago, 16-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: Combines and loads (was Re: New poster by Larry Pieniazek/MTW
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(...) A bit of trickery there... :-) The cab is 6 wide at the top (the hinged part) but the stationary part is only 5 wide, using tiles to handle the mismatch. The stationary part sits on a 6 wide plate base which is offset 1/2 stud from the frame, (...) (21 years ago, 16-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Track Designer Registry
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(...) I agree it would be nice, but with the advent of TrackDraw (coming soon we all hope, the demo that Cary gave at BF was amazing) it's not as important any more, except as a way to determine what the format of .tdl files are so that an importer (...) (21 years ago, 16-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: That's horsepower! ( was Re: New poster by Larry Pieniazek/MTW
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(...) No, actually all these pictures came from different pages, where the amount of horsepower was given in picture underlines.... (...) I will try to have a clloser look at the 3-d picture right now. Thanks for pointing this out - I simply was (...) (21 years ago, 16-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Combines and loads (was Re: New poster by Larry Pieniazek/MTW
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(...) Mornin' Larry, [width of combine) (...) Ok, from the 1024x768 poster I was not too sure about it: I just saw the 6-wide cabin and the 2 studs mudgear on each side of it. Obviously these are wider than the body of the machinery. In this case I (...) (21 years ago, 16-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New German Diesel Locomotive
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(...) Hey, no problem! :) (...) Thanks. The front is better designed in your model, I've used SNOT, but it doesn't looks too good. My "Ludmila" is longer - 38 studs. shgg.dt (21 years ago, 16-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Track Designer Registry
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(...) OK, digging up an old thread here... WE WANT TD SOURCE CODE!!!!!!!! Matt? Leonardo? Anyone? I know this is an old thread (maybe dead) but I have to ask for the ten thousanth time for fellow trainheads (and myself). May we (...) (21 years ago, 16-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Question to all the other train clubs
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Hey John, I started to write a response to each of your questions, but realized that I kept answering them with the same question, "Do you still enjoy building with LEGO?". If you answer this no then I would suggest that you find something to build (...) (21 years ago, 16-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains.org, FTX)
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| | Re: New German Diesel Locomotive
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(...) I am sorry that I didn't notice the posting of your locomotive. Your model is very well done. Proper 3-axle wheel sets, and better stacking of the fence vents. Very nice. Thanks for announcing it. later, James Mathis (21 years ago, 16-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: That's horsepower! ( was Re: New poster by Larry Pieniazek/MTW
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If you stare at the picture in just a way that it makes a third image between the two (try looking up "parallel viewing" or "cross viewing" on Google), then you can see the 3d effect without using a card. Rob "Larry Pieniazek" (...) (21 years ago, 16-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New German Diesel Locomotive
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(...) Well, it's funny, I've made a model of the same locomotive few weeks ago... take a look at: (URL) shgg.dt (21 years ago, 16-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Question to all the other train clubs
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(...) forget about the brick do something that has nothing to do with it or better yet find something to do as a groop that would flush some ideas out. (...) i have learned that if you have to ask someone to do something it will never get done. so (...) (21 years ago, 16-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| | That's horsepower! ( was Re: New poster by Larry Pieniazek/MTW
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(...) Wow. Thanks for those links. That's some horsepower. Did you count them to determine 33 or 38 or whatever? If so, you have far better eyes than me, all those horses kinda blur together and I doze off trying to count them. (...) That last pic (...) (21 years ago, 16-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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