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(...) Beautiful! :-) I love it. It's just as I'd like to have built mine, months ago. How do trains behave in it? (does it hold with heavy trains passing through?) Is there any chance of seeing the lifting mechanism in detail? I'd like to know if (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Using dragon fly wings as train windows
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Hi there, Ever since buying the Make & Create: Wild Collection (4101) I've had the idea of using the dragon fly wings as train windows. Also my brother Egil challenged me to build a train front using the large dark grey curved bricks he got me from (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce, lugnet.town) !
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Here is my latest. It is a fully automated train bridge. (Sorry the photos are not the best. It is hard to take pictures in my basement.) It is fully automated. Meaning we will be able to run the rcx and the bridge will happen periodically during a (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics) !
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(...) This has been discussed before but I would say that there is no firm conclusion yet. While I am a proponent of cleaning LEGO elements if they get to the point of being visibly dirty or sticky, I'm in the "don't clean rails unless you really (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: train width
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Snippage (...) I have to disagree about 7 wide. Its a good compromise between 6 and 8 wide. You can still use some 6 wide elements (centered with jumper plates) while building a bigger beefier train. Its also a lot of fun and a challenge. Working (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: train width
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(...) You're definitely on the right ... track. I can get ... on ... board ... with that notion. Ugh, I'm terrible ;) (...) Cleverer? I'd take exception, but I'm currently in my thinking-man pose contemplating complex and elegantly functional wheel (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains)
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Hello, I just got a new train set and I was playing with it last night. I put in a couple of old straight rail pieces that are probably 5 yrs old with the new rail pieces. I had noticed that the old track feels rough to the touch like there is a (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Flush access door
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In lugnet.trains, Jason J. Railton wrote: snip (...) Huh?! You got a picture or somethin'? James "I'm not from Missouri, but you have to show me anyway" Wilson Dallas, TX (21 years ago, 29-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.space, FTX)
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In lugnet.trains, John Neal wrote: (blather blather blather... as if analysing the *height of a minifig* gets you anywhere... analyse the WIDTH, I say... then you get 12 wide as the right answer (0) ) Scale, schmale. I build 6 wide trains for the (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Unfortunately, I know that all too well. Being unemployed for over a year now puts a serious crimp into the LEGO purchases... :-( JohnG, GMLTC anyone looking to hire an experience software developer (and part-time LEGO fanatic)?? (21 years ago, 29-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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