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(...) use mozilla, and get rid of the popups... (21 years ago, 2-Sep-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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Mark Bellis wrote: > I've seen the DCC mod some people have made to motors, and read about > the overheating problem. the overheating is not due to the use of PWM, but because the task asked from those motors was too great. why do you think long (...) (21 years ago, 2-Sep-03, to lugnet.trains)
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I've seen the DCC mod some people have made to motors, and read about the overheating problem. Does DCC provide smooth DC to the motor or PWM? If it's PWM, the motor will heat up twice as much as usual. I once tried a 9V train motor with a 12V (...) (21 years ago, 2-Sep-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Versions 2 and 3 of micromotorized crossing gates.
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(...) That's what a RCX with a extra light sensor is for (or homemade light sensors). Either option beats the pants off how I did my first automatic crossing system- it was a electrical kludge (and I still can't think of a better way to do it- in (...) (21 years ago, 2-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.us.indylug, lugnet.trains)
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Awesome looking crossing. I like the small size of the motors. What do you use to control this? I was in a hobby store last week looking at DCC stuff and they had crossing sensors for this sort of thing. Also, what happens with the gate is down? Do (...) (21 years ago, 2-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.us.indylug, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Versions 2 and 3 of micromotorized crossing gates.
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Thanks for the positive feedback. I think I like the red one better. I think it's the minimalist in me. But black seems to be a more traditional color. Now, who wants to trade me 10 black 2 x 2 radar dishes? I only have 2, so I had to swap them (...) (21 years ago, 2-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.us.indylug, lugnet.trains)
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(...) I agree, very spiffy. Crossings get gates at various points in history, based on local grousing, the railroad's capital budget, the actual traffic observed at the crossing, federal or state highway funding etc etc so there's certainly lots of (...) (21 years ago, 1-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.us.indylug, lugnet.trains)
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| | Question about the World City sets
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I am looking for pictures of the decorated parts from the 4 new train sets, the surveiliance van and the police HQ. (21 years ago, 1-Sep-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Many Thanks Ross, for posting these pics. Thanks again , Teunis. (21 years ago, 1-Sep-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Santa Fe dome car by Teunis Davey
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Hi all, Teunis asked me to post pics of this, so here they are: Complete: With dome and top floor removed: With one side removed too: (6 URLs) Oh, and here's his train wall: (2 URLs) Enjoy! ROSCO (21 years ago, 1-Sep-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Weird RCX electrical ideas
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I'd like to share two thoughts with you all. They involve the RCX and doing things with it that I'm sure the designers never intended (or thought possible). Oh, if you're reading this in the .trains newsgroup, you can skip over the first thought (...) (21 years ago, 1-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | How do you move a stuck Lego Train?
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:-D This is what happens to a test run on track thats cut short... (URL) moderation: (URL) to move it with 2 more locomotives: (URL) it sitting lopsided? Thats as the locomotives had pulled it forwards... (URL) new BS gallery reads: "GP35 High Nose (...) (21 years ago, 1-Sep-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Versions 2 and 3 of micromotorized crossing gates.
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(...) Now that's cool looking! I like them both ,,, red and black. you should use them both on the layout. Brian D (21 years ago, 31-Aug-03, to lugnet.org.us.indylug, lugnet.trains)
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| | Versions 2 and 3 of micromotorized crossing gates.
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I've made a couple new models of the crossing gates. With the black one, I tried to hide the red motor. With the red one, I tried to make my peace with the red motor. I'd like to use one or the other on the IndyLUG layout for the Indy GATS, but it (...) (21 years ago, 31-Aug-03, to lugnet.org.us.indylug, lugnet.trains)
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Thought I bring this to peoples attention (URL) wish I had this many sets I didn't want. When you see the starting price it seem exhorbitant until you realise that is contains two 7720 as well as everthing else Tim (Disclaimer. I have absolutely (...) (21 years ago, 30-Aug-03, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Train sensors
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(...) there is one trick you can use to get this to work reliably. The thing you need is to use carbon spray on the wheels so that a resistor of a few M-ohms is created. This will draw enough current for the detector circuit to work. product is (...) (21 years ago, 28-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: "Super Friction Specials" - Question at Jake / TLC
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke wrote: <snip> (...) <snip> It doesn't answer the rest of your questions, but at least it looks like the new sets are okay: (URL) C. (21 years ago, 29-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | 8-wide Gondola instructions!!
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I've created instructions for my 8-wide gondola: (URL) (21 years ago, 28-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | high speed train on MOC pages
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I finally got around to taking daylight pictures of my high speed train set. Visit (URL) welcome to write a review (of any of my creations). Many more to come in the next weeks (mainly train and town). Paul (21 years ago, 28-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | "CHRISTMAS THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD" CONTEST
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ENTER AND WIN A $5000.00 GRAND PRIZE ===...=== The Shrine in Belleville, IL is hosting a Christmas LEGO® exhibition featuring LEGO® toy model displays representing the spiritual aspect of Christmas through the eyes of a child. for more information (...) (21 years ago, 28-Aug-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX) !!
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| | Re: MichLTC - LEGO Roadshow - Chicago, IL
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(...) Layout looks terrific! And from the photos, looks like you guys had GREAT weather! Jake --- Jake McKee Community Liason LEGO Community Development (21 years ago, 28-Aug-03, to lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.us.mi, FTX)
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| | MichLTC - LEGO Roadshow - Chicago, IL
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MichLTC had a great time doing the roadshow this past weekend. Featuring one of our most unqiue layout plans yet, we had 2 trains running, 5 city blocks and a small area for misc MOCs. (4 URLs) MichLUG.org> -Jason Spears Webmaster (21 years ago, 28-Aug-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.us.mi, FTX)
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| | Re: Train sensors
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(...) have an 18-inch electrical lead and contain an internal resistor to protect the reed switch from excessive current in case it is inadvertently wired up to an RCX motor output. The sensor can be attached to the railbed of any straight piece of (...) (21 years ago, 28-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Pictures and report from the EUROBUSS tour.
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(...) Odd - I don't - can you tell more? (21 years ago, 28-Aug-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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Reed switches have been used. One discussion: (URL) a discussion on various applications: (...) (21 years ago, 28-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Train sensors
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Has anybody come across a consistent way of sensing the presence of a LEGO train on a specific section of track? I was just wondering, cos I came across (URL) this site> and thought it'd be fairly easy to create controllers like these with RCXs (...) (21 years ago, 28-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Pictures and report from the EUROBUSS tour.
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CAUTION on the 2nd link -- I got a few nasty pop-up ads... (21 years ago, 27-Aug-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | Pictures and report from the EUROBUSS tour.
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Hi all! The Danish ambassador asked me to set up a train layout in Valga, when the EUROBUSS was there on August 16th, 2003. The original idea came from the Danish Cultural Inistitute. They should show some Danish things as a part of they tour. And (...) (21 years ago, 27-Aug-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Two new posters
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In lugnet.trains, Jeroen de Haan wrote: Hi Jeroen, as "usual" you have done a great job on these CAD models. I have downloaded them at once. Again it is really hard to tell from first view if they are made by real LEGO® bricks of just virtual ones. (...) (21 years ago, 27-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.jp)
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| | Re: Worn out Train wheels?
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In lugnet.trains, Mark Riley wrote: [snip] Hi Mark, I think you gave a very clear description about the wheel sets working principle. (...) That is right. For early nineties wheel blocks these where the only spots with friction as well (even without (...) (21 years ago, 27-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.lucny)
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| | "Super Friction Specials" - Question at Jake / TLC
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Hi all! Over the past weeks we had to read nearly daily about "super fcriction wheel sets". I am glad that most of the AFOLs around have saved their humor on this topic and take it just as a minor drawback. On the other hand we will get the new (...) (21 years ago, 27-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct) !
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| | Re: Two new posters
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(...) Hi Jeroen, I corrected your link here above. Well, as allways, verry nice renderings of two beautiful locomotives. Nice models from our Japanese Lego fan. Especially the front lights (black plate)from the EH500.I need to take a close look at (...) (21 years ago, 27-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.jp)
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| | Re: Worn out Train wheels?
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(...) layout. It (...) not (...) before (...) huge, (...) stopped (...) several (...) wheels. I (...) sticky (...) Being something of a newbie to trains, all of my wheel sets are the new Super Friction Specials (nice phrase, that :-). After making (...) (21 years ago, 27-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.lucny)
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| | Two new posters
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Hi all, Sometimes simple thing can take a while and/or cost more engery than one hoped for. Today I am proud to present you two posters of MOCs by Higasi Nakano. If you haven't seen his work, I'll advise you to take a look at his Brickshelf pages ( (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.jp, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Re: LDCC and RCX gizmos (long)
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(...) snip! (...) I believe that Mark is already working on a couple of different ways to control more than 9 DCC decoders on a layout. As he does, I will extend Full Throttle to support the new features. (No pressure, Mark!) The same thing goes for (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Motorized monorail point with manual and train override
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(...) As promised, (URL) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: more mocs now with teasers
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(...) Hi Aaron, Well some of them do - deep links are the ones ending in .jpg (or whatever). The ones ending in ?i=xxxxxx are not deep links, and won't be viewable until moderated. But I like the unimog fire engine :) HTH ROSCO (21 years ago, 26-Aug-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Full Throttle and WINE
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(...) WINE apparently doesn't emulate network support. My method for loading a web page is unlikely to work under WINE, as this is also a known issue for Virtual Remote. (...) This is the USB Tower driver from the RIS 2.0 package. I'm not too (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: more mocs now with teasers
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(URL) fun (i hope these work) Aaron "Benjamin Medinets" <bmedinets@excite.com> wrote in message news:HK7KKx.24Gn@lugnet.com... (...) to (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: more mocs
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(...) Is there any chance you can deep-link a few teaser pics so we don't have to wait as long to see your lovely creations? Boy. It looks like Aaron has been a very busy body!!!) :) Ben (21 years ago, 26-Aug-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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Still loading and after moderation are: Alpine express modifications (URL) (lego version of Stonehenge) (URL) (my first bridge attempt) (URL) wall (why should humans have all the fun) (URL) (Fire trucks based on the unimog truck) (URL) is a deep (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LDCC and RCX gizmos (long)
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(...) with (...) IR (...) locos. (...) Whoops, I meant to comment about this, too. LDCC responds to the message 1, 2 & 3 buttons from the remote. The remote uses LASM opcode 0xD2 to send these messages. However, there is another opcode, 0xF7, that (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LDCC and RCX gizmos (long)
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(...) Is there a way with the standard firmware to receive and process arbitrary packets, even those wrapped in the standard Lego IR protocol (as LDCCIRP is)? I'm thinking you may need to use BrickOS for this application. (...) include: (...) list (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: DCC slowing?
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(...) I was thinking that one could make the seal with a thin foam gasket to allow air to still move somewhat freely (...) I was thinking of this as well...just a matter of finding such an item. (...) Sounds good to me! I did some testing on my (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Mac track designer
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Has anyone seen this? (URL) don't know if the author is aware of LEGO trains, so I've written him and pointed him here. It looks like the library might be configurable to work with LEGO geometry but I don't have time to investigate. Amy (21 years ago, 25-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Getting Started With Lego Trains - Jake's Book
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Shorter URL: (URL) Best regards, /Tobbe (URL) (remove SPAM when e-mailing) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.publish, lugnet.books)
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| | Re: MOCs,
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(...) To Aaron, Great MOC's , I really like the Santa fe . It just needs some stickers ! I one day hope to come up to Queensland for one of the train meetings. Have you seen some of the trains that I have built ? Or Ross's crains. There on the MUGS (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: DCC slowing?
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I wonder if this is a caused by low track voltage? The DCC decoder does not put a steady voltage to the motor but rather pulses the motor with the duration of the pulses increasing for increasing speed. Although the motors are no doubt vulnerable to (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | LDCC and RCX gizmos (long)
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I am contemplating how to integrate control of a roundhouse roundtable with control of trains using LDCC (URL). Currently the roundtable software is in NQC on an RCX and is controlled by IR messages 1, 2 and 3, which can be generated by the LEGO (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-03, to lugnet.org.us.indylug, lugnet.trains)
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| | Full Throttle and WINE
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Just wanted to report that I loaded Full Throttle 1.00 (URL) in RedHat Linux 8.x using WINE version 20020605-2, and it loaded just fine and appeared to send IR commands through COM1 (don't have a RCX with LDCC at the moment to make sure). The only (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains) !
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| | Re: MOCs,
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Oh oh, waiting to see the fire trucks! Josh (21 years ago, 25-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: MOCs,
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"Aaron Coghill" <coghilla@austarnet.com.au> wrote in message news:HK5H6y.oEM@lugnet.com... (...) just a (...) of my (...) moderated so (...) Thanks for posting your work. The train crane is my favorite so far. Your work is very pleasing. Looking (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| | Getting Started With Lego Trains - Jake's Book
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Searching through Amazon last night, I stumbled across something very insteresting... Enter "Lego Trains" into the Amazon search tool and you get a hit on Jake McKee's new book! Getting Started with Lego Trains by Jacob H. McKee paperback, 128 pages (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.publish, lugnet.books) !
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| | MOCs,
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Hi all, I've been very quiet for the last year or so. I've been around just a bit quiet. I have building stuff and over the last week been taking pics of my creations, and am currently posting them to brickshelf. Posted and moderated so far are: (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: NILTC Show at Illinois Railway Museum - Aug 15-17 and Aug 23-24
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(...) Replying to self - it was only an 800 mile day, not 900... ;-) JohnG, GMLTC (21 years ago, 24-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains.org.niltc, lugnet.loc.us.il, FTX)
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| | Re: NILTC Show at Illinois Railway Museum - Aug 15-17 and Aug 23-24
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(...) After only wiping out a few of the track-side structures on the layout.... Gotta love that 8-wide overhang! The Challenger still needs some fine-tuning, this was its "world premier", since I had never actully run it powered. "Thanks" to all (...) (21 years ago, 24-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains.org.niltc, lugnet.loc.us.il, FTX)
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| | Re: NILTC Show at Illinois Railway Museum - Aug 15-17 and Aug 23-24
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Well the whole NILTC club was very pleased ( and a few members surprised) to receive a visit by John Gerlach at our Thomas show today. He stayed for only a few hours but it was a real blast! The highlights included: a. Joint NILTC/GMLTC 8-wide (...) (21 years ago, 24-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains.org.niltc, lugnet.loc.us.il)
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(...) a (...) Indeed, you should see the way my 5 year old liked to tug the wires off the motors and battery boxes - good thing they use heavy cable and a strain relief! He knows better now. :-) Mark (21 years ago, 23-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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<SNIP> (...) Hi Chris and all others, If you open a Lego train motor, you'll find there 3 electrical components in it. First, and largest part, is the motor itself, second is a 'black cilindrical' piece witch is placed in parallel with the motor (...) (21 years ago, 23-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hmmmm not sure, never tried this. Possibly remove the existing wires, and try to fit 4 thinner wires out where the 2 currently exit. The standard wire is probably heavier than necessary, another case of LEGO over-engineering (in a good way!). (...) (21 years ago, 23-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) During the DCC conversion described by Tom Cook, there is some kind of semiconductor that gets removed from the train motor. I wonder if this component is somehow responsible for preventing excessive current in the motor windings? Judging from (...) (21 years ago, 23-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Worn out Train wheels?
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(...) Hello, To all train builders ! Ok, So we have had a fare bit of a talk about 9v train wheels, and their problems. But I have a few 12v wheels and 7750 wheels that I like to run on 9v track.Do any of you know how to make 12v wheels go better ? (...) (21 years ago, 23-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.lucny)
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| | Worn out Train wheels?
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The last time my trains were run (at BrickFest) I experienced no end of troubles with wheelsets that had all been used before with no apparent problems. Yes, some of them are the newer super-friction specials but at the time they were installed on (...) (21 years ago, 23-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.lucny)
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| | Re: DCC slowing?
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(not really replying to my own post, but adding the 2 cents of Robert Miles and my reply to him...) (...) This does explain exactly why the long, heavy trains had such trouble on the curves, and why the banked curve in particular would be (...) (21 years ago, 23-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yup. What's your opinion of the best place for the wires to exit the case? Either side of the accessory connector? Out the front? (...) and most do (...) (21 years ago, 23-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Neither my idea nor my track :) It worked, though. (...) Sounds like an excellent idea. (21 years ago, 23-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Oops. Sorry. Didn't know what I was doing. Anyway, the folder is public now... (21 years ago, 23-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I think this has been mentined before and I wish LEGO made the train motors like this! Oh well, maybe one day. Another option for the lead to the decoder is to take a standard 9V lead with 2x2 end, slice the conductors on the bottom in half, (...) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: DCC slowing?
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(...) Ya. Leave it to YOU to do that, right? (just everyone wait to see what Rob and I are cooking up... I'm going to make sure I have plausible deniability on any actual brickmods though... "it wasn't me, honest! It was ROB!" ) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) You'd prefer they leave that job to you? *grin* JohnG, GMLTC fut ??? (21 years ago, 22-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Steel wool? Wow! I would think that would be a bit harsh on LEGO track and I can imagine lots of fibers getting caught on the studs of the ties as well. I found that using a small dab of Brasso on a cloth rag and running it down the rails (...) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Mine either! How DARE these people cut, hack, and mod their LEGO!!!! (21 years ago, 22-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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Good info here... however... (...) Deep links end in .jpg or .gif or whatever the file type is, and give the real location of the file, they do not end in .cgi parameters. You need to click through one more time to get the deep link value. Hope that (...) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) After we cleaned the tracks with steel wool, disassembled them, transported them to the road show and reassembled them, the coupler magnets still picked up a copious amount of steel wool fibers. I certainly wouldn't want to get *that* stuff (...) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I was thinking that as long as we are modifying the motors in a manner to perform better, I was looking at the possible places we could open the motor box to allow ventilation for the motor. Perhaps we could cut a hole on the bottom directly (...) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: buying parts at LUGOLA meeting - September 6, 11-4
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Sheesh! What a doufus... Store link: (URL) really cares about my feedback...lol. -Dave (21 years ago, 22-Aug-03, to lugnet.org.us.lugola, lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.org.us.baylug)
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| | Re: buying parts at LUGOLA meeting - September 6, 11-4
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Hi All! Regarding parts for sale at the September meeting, let me point out that those attending the meeting are encouraged to visit my little shop on Bricklink: (URL) mention that you are attending the meeting in the comments box and I'll gladly (...) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-03, to lugnet.org.us.lugola, lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.org.us.baylug)
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| | Re: DCC slowing?
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(...) At the Indianpolis LEGO Road Show this past Friday, we ran the same layout as John referred to at the top of this thread. All the heavy locos that ran the outer loop experienced the exact same symptoms as he mentioned above, to the point where (...) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug)
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| | Re: New train MOC and Orange passenger car
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(...) What I meant was: Maybe you can use the simple bricks at the ends of the roof, if you're just a bit short of the more sophisticated ones. (...) Yes, If all goes well. I've registerd for all 5 exibition days of the event, but not for the (...) (21 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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In lugnet.trains.org, John Gerlach wrote: Hi John, you got by far more feedback, than lots of other requests in lugnet.trains get in average. Is it asked for too much, if I beg you, to give us some more informations about your thoughts on our (...) (21 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains.org, FTX)
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(...) Mike Gallagher (windmill builder) asked me to post this on his behalf: I just put up some detailed pictures of the Wind Mill I had at the Lego's Cleveland Road Show and Tuttle Mall. (URL) made some deconstruction photos to show some of the (...) (21 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains.org)
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Track Designer models a pair of monorail upper and lower ramp parts as a single piece. Do you view this as a feature or a restriction? I can't recall seeing half of a ramp unconnected to the other half in a layout. Have you found a need for half a (...) (21 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.trains)
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(...) I'm not sure I can help you get the members enthused about working on the layout again, but I might be able to offer some suggestions that could help the club get back that close knit feeling. Recently I asked the question "What makes a good (...) (21 years ago, 20-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains.org, FTX)
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(...) There were some pics we posted last week, here's a shot: (URL) was made by Mike Gallagher, It's performance was dratically improved betwen the Clevceland show and this one, only a few days later. I'll ask him to get some more detailed pics on (...) (21 years ago, 20-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) Yes. AND call the mediaperson on it (in a nice way, while thanking them for the coverage) if they misquote the interviewee. (21 years ago, 20-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains.org.niltc, lugnet.loc.us.il)
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(...) There seems to be a wind powered generator, but I don't see any very good shots of it. Are there more, did I miss it/them? Is it something else? Ken (21 years ago, 20-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) The total wieght of those bricks is higher than the 6081 and plates on top. Leaves also enough room to put lightbulbs (or white LED's) in the top of the roof, witch can't be done with the 6215 bricks. Just thinking a bit ahead ... Regards, (...) (21 years ago, 20-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I suppose it's up to us to change that impression when we give interviews. If we (collectively) make a conscious effort to say they are not just for kids, perhaps it will change over time? -Tim (21 years ago, 20-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains.org.niltc, lugnet.loc.us.il)
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(...) The article doesn't make more than the usual number of errors (BrickLink.com as a source for "LEGOS" ...) but I do wish the media would give up on the "adults playing with kids toys" angle, it gets a little tiresome. If some LEGO sets are (...) (21 years ago, 20-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains.org.niltc, lugnet.loc.us.il)
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(...) (21 years ago, 20-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains.org.niltc, lugnet.loc.us.il)
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(...) Also be chary of changing the RATE of climb too fast or (in my view, although this is a bit controversial) changing the rate of climb on curves. See the FAQ: (URL) leads you to this excellent resource: (URL) that helps. (21 years ago, 20-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) From what I understand the most you should slope the track is 1 plate per section. I've heard of people pushing it to 2 plates per section but it can lead to traction problems. Mike (21 years ago, 20-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) They are actually stiff but you are able to move it around the connection. You can build a ramp though, however it does put stress on the motor letting you pull less cars. I'm not sure of the grade for the track is, I only operate a point to (...) (21 years ago, 20-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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Hey guys, I am thinking of redesigning my arctic base and want to place a train in it. How flexable are the tracks? Can I make a ramp with them so that the train can go up and down without placing to much stress on the track pieces? Thanks, Larry (21 years ago, 20-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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Motorized Point 2 is undoubtedly my best work yet on trains (not saying much!) (URL) have a couple pics to add to version 2 which shows the track installed on the apparatus. (21 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.org.us.indylug, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Whoops, replying to my own post. OK, I put together a quick version of the single clutch machine. This one works on easy-to-move points. If it doesn't work well, you should just use the double-clutch point machine instead, with which I've (...) (21 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I'm having a low-energy day. I'll throw together an LDR file and put the steps on Brickshelf shortly. Since I don't have them handy, I'm working from memory, so I'll get the key bits right and leave the rest as an exercise to the student. (...) (21 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Well, the commuter train IS red, the orange look comes from the overlighting from my digital camera. Perhaps i should make a new picture for upload. The only Orange car is the partial build passenger car witch can be found at : (URL) painted (...) (21 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) them (...) Gee, I thought I might get an answer sooner than that! :-) Too early to tell with any certainty about BFPDX, but I did run it by my NLSO and she's OK with being in Portland on Valentine's day, so hopefully everything else will fall (...) (21 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yes, this is Jeff Elliott's design. We used them very successfully at the NMRA show this summer. Unfortunately he's very busy preparing to move, so probably won't be able to post details anytime soon. I've got copies of the easy throw model at (...) (21 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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