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(...) Great pictures Pierre. I've been waiting impatiently for these all week. Looks like a great layout. The TOYS R US looks great Kevin. The whole shopping plaza looks great. Luc's motel, train station, and back alley look awesome. (URL) falling (...) (21 years ago, 12-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.qc, lugnet.loc.ca.qc.mon, lugnet.org.ca.monlug, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Steam Drivers by Big Ben Bricks!!!
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(...) Why a lot of effort? It saves Ben a lot of work, and all the buyers some $$$. (...) While that MIGHT work for the US, it certainly won't for Europe. Hardly any LTC's here, and most other clubs won't bother... not to mention those that are not (...) (21 years ago, 12-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) That sounds like a lot of effort, for demand that will obviously peak rapidly then dwindle a bit. I have another suggestion, if Bricklink won't play - why not distribute the initial lot through LTCs? ILTCO could e-mail all the LTCs, with an (...) (21 years ago, 12-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | 7 wide Locomotive
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As a work avoidance project I decided to rebuild one of my loco's in 7 wide. Why 7 wide? Cause I'm a wild and crazy guy. :) Actually the real reason was the SNOT'd windshield I used on the 6 wide. Its a little big for 6 wide and a little small for 8 (...) (21 years ago, 12-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | MonLUG's 5th train show pics.
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Hello, Last weekend, MonLUG participated in it's fifth Montreal area train show. It was a great success and our best layout ever, we were as popular as ever with visitors. Here are my pics: (URL) (after moderation) There's 3 pages so be sure to look (...) (21 years ago, 12-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.qc, lugnet.loc.ca.qc.mon, lugnet.org.ca.monlug, lugnet.town, FTX) !!
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| | Re: BBB Inspire Swiss Ae 3/6" Electric Locomotive Model
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(...) Here is the (URL) Ae 3/6 electric locomotive with Ben's unofficial dat-part wheel>. The main (URL) Swiss Ae 3/6 v2 folder>, once moderated, contains the .mpd file for the loc, as well as a color modified version of Ben's wheel .dat file. (...) (21 years ago, 11-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: How to model a wrecked train in Lego??
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(...) Came across this pic of a train wreck and thought it would be substantially easier to model in LEGO: (URL) the track is also wrecked in this pic... Dave K -who would really like to do this scene in ABS (21 years ago, 11-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: BBB Inspire Swiss Ae 3/6" Electric Locomotive Model
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(...) A "good enough" mockup should not be too hard... ... start with Ben's!!! but the bending in the rear of the ribs will take some care to model accurately. personally I'd vote for seeing if Ben can release his CAD files (assuming he designed (...) (21 years ago, 11-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: BBB Inspire Swiss Ae 3/6" Electric Locomotive Model
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(...) Yes that what causing it, now I look at the original image I can see that the wheels go lower than rail level. It doesn't really matter anyway as they are temporary parts but thanks for clearing it up. The sweepstake is now open for the length (...) (21 years ago, 11-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Steam Drivers by Big Ben Bricks!!!
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Possibly Ben should get some franchises! My suggestion would be someone for Europe, based in Germany probably and someone in Australia (possibly somone in Japan as well). This (with Ben selling to US) would cover most of the train building areas (...) (21 years ago, 11-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: BBB Inspire Swiss Ae 3/6" Electric Locomotive Model
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(...) Hi James, that is in fact good news on these wheels! (...) Even the better! I begin to have an urgent need to get some in my hands.... (URL) CAD moc-up of a Swiss Ae 3/6 electric locomotive> that uses the BBB wheels in (...) That engine is a (...) (21 years ago, 11-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Steam Drivers by Big Ben Bricks!!!
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(...) Actually the Dutch 1000 class was like (1A) Bo (A1) , one of the reasons it never really became a succes (they were rail wreckers) (21 years ago, 11-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: BBB Inspire Swiss Ae 3/6" Electric Locomotive Model
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(...) This may be a bit of optical illusion, for the placement of the oversize diameter place-holder wheels penetrate the 9v rail. Maybe that gives the appearance that the wheels stick out left/right farther than do the 12v wheels? See this (URL) (...) (21 years ago, 11-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: BBB Inspire Swiss Ae 3/6" Electric Locomotive Model
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(...) sorry, here is the deep link (URL) tim (21 years ago, 11-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Steam Drivers by Big Ben Bricks!!!
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(...) They have no flanges. Thus, they can be a bit "off" on alignment negotiating curves. (21 years ago, 11-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: BBB Inspire Swiss Ae 3/6" Electric Locomotive Model
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(...) I tried posting on this subject over the weekend, but of course Lugnet was in a 'funk'... I was eyeballing a set of three of the BBB wheels as they went around "those pesky tight Lego curves". I looks like you'll need about one brick of 'play' (...) (21 years ago, 11-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Not being too familiar with loco lingo.....what are blinds? why are they useful? jeramy (21 years ago, 11-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Needs to be deeplinked. This is not a deeplink it doesn't end in a file extension... I'll say I myself haven't cracked the full crank yet across a 6 couple that doesn't have a pair of blind drivers, but I'm working on it! (...) Yes. Early (...) (21 years ago, 11-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Yes, if I had ONE more pair of wheels I would have done something like that, it's a natural for two pairs of wheels around a center articulation point, with leading single axles at each end also articulated.... or something like the 4554 (...) (21 years ago, 11-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Personally, I'd want to buy them in sixes. I'd guess that so would most builders of British, if not many European, locomotives. Adding in that some will want a pair of those to be blind, and some won't, I think pairs is the only way of keeping (...) (21 years ago, 11-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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