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(...) Well thank goodness you got one. That's truly an amazing model, thanks for the extra pics! That prototype photo (with the bow just barely not quite all the way lowered) shows what a good job of selective compression you did! I note that all of (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains)
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Hello! Thank you very much for the nice reactions to my ferry! I have put up a few more pics on brickshelf where you can see the danish trains better. ( I agree that the santa fe diesel must feel a little lonely in this company!:-) (URL) The round (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hi Mark, Thanks for the feedback! I finally tracked down some photos of your trains. With respect to the Walchaert's gear, are you referring to the following? (URL) having a tough time pictureing your description ... do you have a link to a (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Nots of nice touches/models. I like the plow: (URL) don't see those very often. (21 years ago, 9-Jan-04, to lugnet.org.us.indylug, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) The wait for pics was worth it! (...) I have to agree with Arne, this is a very very detailed and eye-candy rich model! In addition to all the stuff about the ferry itself to like, I like that you did the red/white Danish passenger train as (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) As someone who has sailed countless times with this ferry, I must say that the likeliness is truly amazing. I especially like the sundeck: (URL) favorite place to stay on the 1 hour long trip, even in bad weather. A fantastic model, Henrik!! (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi again. Here are a few deep links until the folder gets public: (3 URLs) hope it works! Henrik (21 years ago, 9-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) More pictures at: (URL) mark (21 years ago, 8-Jan-04, to lugnet.org.us.indylug, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Excellent model - you're a man after my own heart! Great to see someone else building to 8mm:1ft scale or thereabouts! (...) Could you try adding Walschaert's valve gear, as I did with my British Class 9F 2-10-0 and LMS Garratt 2-6-0+0-6-2? (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Can you post a deep link or two?(1) I'm itching to see this but the folder's not public yet. This is one of those times when even though you know Kevin's a volunteer and you can't complain about how long moderation of the folder takes, you (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains)
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I will be showing my roller coaster one last time at (URL) PDX> this February. If you want to see it in action, come to this event, because it will be taken apart afterwards (unless someone decides they want to own it for themselves, of course). See (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jan-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.us.wa, lugnet.loc.us.or, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.org.us.sealug, lugnet.loc.ca.bc, lugnet.loc.us.id, lugnet.loc.us.ca, FTX) !!
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(...) You can also pick it up in orange from the Junior Tow Truck. (URL) Siver tank segments too. It's $3.99 at the local Target right now. Thug (21 years ago, 9-Jan-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.trains)
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Hello! This is my first post here on lugnet. I have built a model of a Danish Rail Ferry which was sailing until 1998 and is now a hospital ship in south Africa. The ferry has 4 tracks, a front that opens with a 9 v motor, a radar which is driven by (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains) !!
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(...) snippage Yeah know, I'm not much of a train person, but WOW! I love your work Shaun. You amaze me. It's more like sculptures on a train track than anything :) -Anne (21 years ago, 8-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Noticed some of it on BR a few days ago Really great pictures and layout, especially the mountains! this is my faivourite picture: (URL) (21 years ago, 7-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains)
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I finally got some time over Christmas to put some bricks together, something I've been meaning to do since I saw some of Ben Beneke's fabulous creations about 2 years ago. I'm fortunate that my old Lego collection contains the large red wheels from (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Shaun, that thing's huge! Lovely detailing though. For dry ice, how about fitting a pneumatic pump inside, piped through a pneumatic directional brick, to blow air up and over the dry ice. You may be able to get the fog to blow upwards. As an (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Check out LeeValley.com They are a woodworking supply store and they deal with high end goods. They have an umconditional 3 month return policy and they are great to deal with. You can order on line and browse in Canadian or US dollars. Check (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Snip. Shawn... you have done it again! I love how you always try to stick to real minifig scale and cover your MOCs with countless little details. About the dry ice: Isolating the dry ice with any material like felt or cotton should protect (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) I had not thought of that, so I went to 'froogle' and found these: (URL) sure look like the ones I have (and at a cheaper price that I paid, too!!) JohnG, GMLTC (21 years ago, 6-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Such magnets can usually be found in any electrical component supplier. UK residents can order them from maplin.co.uk (search the A-Z listing under magnets). They come in a range of sizes - 10mm diameter by 5mm depth should be about right and (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains)
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I shall be out of the loop for a year or so as I go about some travels. So first of all a big thanks to everyone out there in the LUGNET trains community for enticing me into all of this ... and an especially big thanks to the team at BeLUG and the (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Have you tried fixing the plate to the boiler and allowing a second plate with tiles on top and the wheelset on bottom to slide beneath the boiler? Chris (21 years ago, 6-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I have absolutely NO idea what their original purpose was! The store is a "surplus store", that sells odds & ends - you never really know what you're going to find there. I'm going to pick up several dozen of them this week (for someone who (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I'm confused here by the referents in your sentence. I thought the canopy/nose from the TT set was the metroliner canopy/nose but in grey (it was also used in white in an aquazone set)... the fireboat canopy/windshield looks to me like the one (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jan-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Well, it is a licensed line and we will be paying a premium, so we can hope we'll get our money's worth. Then again, they might have done a purple prototype, taken a picture, then thought no, we can make a few quid more by dumping the blue (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Ah, now I see what you mean. They used those in the Time Twisters too. You can already get two of these hinged canopies in red in the Spider-Man cable-car set <set:4852> "The Final Showdown". I'm also curious as to whether the "Octan" logo on (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jan-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.trains)
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Hello John. I could even imagine replacing some of the original magnets in some of my couplers, provided I can find magnets that I can mechanically fit into the LEGO plastic ring. It would also be an interesting experiment, whether the 12V (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Not sure but you may be thinking about the metroliner windshield, (URL) which made a comeback with the metroliner legend release. I don't think I've seen it in red though - that would lead to more possibilities. But I think the windshield from (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jan-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.trains)
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I do believe you're right about the windscreen being Jack Stone. Now that I look closer, there appears to be a click-hinge arrangement on the roof. Oh well, it's still may be useful. However, there is train windscreen that resembles this piece that (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jan-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.trains)
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(...) I would think its Blue. I doubt they would do a run of violet windows when they have gobs of blue. But since when have Lego made sense. :) Mike (21 years ago, 6-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains)
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I want to put some boiler stays in, as below (URL) However the front footplate moves in comparison to the boiler (to go round Lego corners/curves) meaning they need movement. There three options I can think of: 1 mount a rigid rod on a turntable at (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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In lugnet.org.us.indylug, David Gregory wrote: <snip> Our layout wasn't much different from the one we set up for the October GATS (...) The layout was actually quite different in a number of ways. Additional detailing was done by many of the club (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.org.us.indylug, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) pic of Hogwarts Express: (URL) I was pretty disappointed when I saw that. Same train, new (smaller) station, $10 (US) cheaper. Oh well. The rumor was that this would be a 9V compliant Hogwarts Express but the picture still shows the 2x2 spoked (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) The Knight Bus in the movie should be purple. Some have been spotted during filming around London: (URL) here's hoping. The train windows make for good London bus windows. I'll certainly be after one of these. Does anyone know of a livery that (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains)
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Regardless, it still look sloppy to me. "Erik Olson" <erik@olson.pair.com> wrote in message news:Hr04LM.1Gtt@lugnet.com... (...) way (...) like (...) operator (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Err - are you sure? I can't see a train windscreen anywhere. It looks to me like the windscreen on the big boat is a 'Jack Stone' hinged cab piece. Is there something else not visible from that angle? Anyway, the proper train windscreen was (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.trains)
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The Indianapolis area LEGO Club (IndyLUG) once again set up a train layout at the Great American Train Show. As you can see from the picture below, IndyLUG won second place. (URL) Our layout wasn't much different from the one we set up for the (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.org.us.indylug, lugnet.loc.us.in, lugnet.loc.us.in.ind, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) It's not a gap, NYC subway cars do have a narrow window there for the operator to lean his head out of. I thought it was a neat little outcome. (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Neat find. Thanks for sharing. I am thinking that judicious use of these would allow very very long trains to be run. (...) I hope you do! (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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