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The Richmond LEGO® Users Group (RichLUG) will be participating in its fifth train show event the weekend following Thanksgiving – November 29-30, 2003. This is the (URL) 26th Annual Model Railroad Show> hosted by the local Richmond Freelance and (...) (21 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.org.us.richlug, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.org.us.hardlug, FTX)
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| | Re: Dark Gray Track
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(...) Ya know, if they're gonna change the track color and obsolete all the old track, perhaps Lego should take advantage of the change and make the leap to DCC. Don (21 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Dark Gray Track
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Just imagine - after all this time of having more curved track than you can possibly use, and selling it off dirt cheap, now it will be in very high demand. Woohoo! I'm glad I kept all my curved track ;-) (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home (21 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Digitrax DZ123
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Digitrax is introducing a new low cost DCC decoder, the DZ123 (retail $20 US). It has most of the same features as it's bigger cousin, the DZ143 ($35), the most notable differences being that it only supports two (instead of four) functions (or (...) (21 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Dark Gray Track
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So, I imagine we'll eventually be seeing track in this new dark gray. I don't think I'm entirely thrilled with that prospect. But, from Lego's perspective, I can see how they might not see it as a big deal, since most households will only have one (...) (21 years ago, 18-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Track Geometry
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(...) There is no perfect solution because the square root of 2 is not a rational number. HOWEVER there are some that are quite close.. within a stud or two both horizontally and vertically) Try this (using track designer which you can get using (...) (21 years ago, 18-Nov-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Pictures!... SCLTC at the San Diego Model Railroad Museum
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Coming next Saturday, a Spamcake diner doggie Car! Please Please I incoarge SD area AFOLs to stop by, I'm Josh, ask for me introduce youself, check it out! Maybe if you come by Satuday you'dd get the free Lego... Josh (21 years ago, 18-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
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| | Re: NELUG Layout at the Greenberg Train Show
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(...) Thanks! Good suggestion. I usually do have the sensors further upstream than I did for this show. As I mentioned earlier, I had started out with a new gate design on the layout that operates more quickly, therefore more lead time was not (...) (21 years ago, 17-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: NELUG Layout at the Greenberg Train Show
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(...) they work nicely, tho I think you should move the 'upwind' sensor further away so the barrier is down before the train gets there tim (21 years ago, 17-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: NELUG Layout at the Greenberg Train Show
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(...) Not only do I not mind, but I made the plans available on BrickShelf: (URL) gate works better with only six Technic Pin Connector cylinders on the gate instead of the eight that are shown on the plans. I never drew up plans for the signal (...) (21 years ago, 17-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: NELUG Layout at the Greenberg Train Show
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In lugnet.trains, Chris Phillips wrote: <snip> (...) The crossing gates are great! Mind if I try making one for my layout? Looking forward to the other pics. Dave K (21 years ago, 17-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: Three new British Wagons
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(...) It IS easier to go from from real to CAD,, its just I don't get a chance to get the real Lego out much. Other countries have nuclear flask wagons, they are all a bit bigger A (URL) German nuclear waste train> is proving contraversial at the (...) (21 years ago, 17-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Three new British Wagons
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(...) I saw this after I had finished mine and wondered, I'm not up for modding brick but stickers (ones that you can remove anyway) are OK in my book. (...) Thanks, these are actually very old and are one of my first post grey (not quite dark) age (...) (21 years ago, 17-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Three new British Wagons
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"Tim David" <talltim@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:HoGvC5.172z@lugnet.com... (...) Flask (...) Tim, this is a very good representation. Tan is a good choice of colour; if I recall they tended to end up a sort of 'olive green' colour, much like (...) (21 years ago, 17-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Three new British Wagons
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(...) <snip> Wonderfully done! I usually find that it's easier to go from the actual model to CAD, but I'll try your method next :) The nuclear hopper looks really nice. I think I'd like to try making that sometime. Keep up the great work! Dave K (21 years ago, 17-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | NELUG Layout at the Greenberg Train Show
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NELUG participated in the Greenberg Toy and Train Show this past weekend with a 10'x20' layout. As usual, a great time was had by all. I am still sorting through the hundreds of pictures that I took of the display, so many of these should appear on (...) (21 years ago, 17-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Three new British Wagons
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I thought that I would announce my first MOCs for a long time as I have been building these on and off for a while now. Most of my modelling is done in MLCAD and then translated to real brick as A: I'm rebuilding my house and my Lego is stored; B: I (...) (21 years ago, 16-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.cad, lugnet.loc.uk, FTX)
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| | Re: COLTC display at "Our lady of the Snows"
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(...) Thanks Jack. Boy, do I feel stupid now. We should have posted for AFOL's in the area to help set it up. We thought we could do it fast, but we spend 12 hours straight setting up, and building, with three people! We had tons of idea's, but no (...) (21 years ago, 16-Nov-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: COLTC display at "Our lady of the Snows"
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Paul, Wow! The whole display is fantastic. I really liked the snow scene. I'm hoping get over to Belleville soon (from St. Louis) and see this display for myself. I *think* the coordinators of this display wanted us (GtwLUG) to help w/ some setup, (...) (21 years ago, 16-Nov-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains)
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| | COLTC display at "Our lady of the Snows"
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About 5 weeks ago COLTC was approached to do a layout for the Shrine of our Lady of the Snows, in Belleville Illinois. This is a part of the Way of Lights, and part of the Lego display. The display is open to the public from 5-10 PM each day from (...) (21 years ago, 16-Nov-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains) !!
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