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(...) Yeah! dontcha just love it! (...) Last time I had a problem with S@H, they told me that LEGO from this side of the world (Australia atleast) came out of Denmark... but after solving a problem for me (which was their fault), they were quite (...) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) The latter For those that don't know Australia does not have a shop@home dept or wing of lego oz .But instead comes out ofthe US somewhere?? (...) Also a problem in Australia but it's the other way around ,an example is the santa fe loco it (...) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) That's stores. There are at least two, possibly more (based on availability discrepencies, I believe they have at least three locations set up currently). North America is served out of Connecticut, and Australia (I believe) is served out of (...) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | IndyLUG's Town/Train layout at Children's Expo
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IndyLUG participated in the Parent & Child Exposition this past weekend (Feb. 28-29) at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. Part of our setup included a town/train themed layout. The town pictures can be seen on Brickshelf here: (URL) Town layout> after (...) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-04, to lugnet.org.us.indylug, lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.us.in.ind, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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(...) I think its one issue that needs to be addressed. For Lego Shop @ Home to really be a global operation, you should be able to get something whether your "local" fulfillment center is out of stock, or doesn't carry that particular item yet. Of (...) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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| | What is the point of having shop @ home??
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Hi, have just been to lego's online store to buy 2 metroliner sets with the extra tourist car add , it's called "metroliner kit". Now you can buy the extrta car on it's own as well as the metroliner on it's own,but when I what looking for these (...) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) You are correct, the entire wall structure is upside down. There is no stud to tube connection between the walls and the rest of the structure. It is held in place by four internal pillars that also hold the roof on. You can see the pillar the (...) (21 years ago, 2-Mar-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hello Have you seen any of the Brickbarons trains ? They don't use track. They are 16 wide ,works of art. He uses tiles for track. (URL) are some bricklink sellers that sell good used train motors .For as low as $10us And they may even throw (...) (21 years ago, 2-Mar-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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(...) Forget That last Post. I dont know what I was thinking! lol Option 1 Electric Train Motor 9V $24.99\ Speed Regulator $41.99 \ $92.96 Curved Rails $12.99 / Curved Rails $12.99/ (URL) 2 High Speed Train $89.99 (URL) 3 Train Accessories Kit (...) (21 years ago, 2-Mar-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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(...) Don't buy a whole motorized set just buy the motor (URL) --Jeff (21 years ago, 2-Mar-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| | How do I build a Train/Railway without Train parts
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Well as the subject says, Does anyone have any ideas of how I can build a Train/Railway for my town without using any specialised Train parts (ie: track/motors etc) A train seems to be the only thing thats missing from my town, unfortunately, being (...) (21 years ago, 2-Mar-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| | Pictures of BayLTC at GATS Feb 28-29 2004
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You can view pictures from our latest GATS layout here: (URL) if you prefer raw Brickshelf with no commentary: (URL) followups set to lugnet.org.us.baylug...c.us.ca.sf (21 years ago, 2-Mar-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.baylug, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.trains)
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(...) I never understood this building technique. Are the walls (the parts with the windows) just wedged upside-down? --Jeff (21 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: PDX / LTC container swap
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(...) To Mark, Please email me your postal address so I send you some M>ltc stickers . Many Thanks, Teunis. (21 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Drawbridge house
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After building my drawbridge, i felt it needed a drawbridge house for the operator to stay in. Here is what i came up with. (URL) think it turned out pretty well. The picture looks good also, I like the trees in the background, it makes for a cool (...) (21 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 4.5v upgraded to 9v - ideas welcome.
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Hi again, I appreciated the advice I got last time I asked about trains, earlier in this thread, now I would like some more help. I have built a 6-wide MOC of what I hope resembles an EMD SD-90MAC Canadian Pacific locomotive using the old 4.5v (...) (21 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Wanted- Left hand Switches damaged optional
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Hey all, I am on a quest to find left hand switches. If you have any that are damaged or just some you’re willing to sell please contact me at roj2323 at yahoo.com. This is your chance to get some money out of your otherwise worthless switches so (...) (21 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains)
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Just after Christmas, my daughter brought home a set of Clik-Its that she had gotten from her mother. For some reason, they reminded me of her Barbie Jeep, which sparked an idea for a vehicle MOC. So I decided to make an attempt at a Barbie-style (...) (21 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | New LUGNET server hardware details
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So, we've purchased our cool new servers, from Cambridge, MA vendor "PCs for Everyone". Todd and I and several other friends have gotten systems from them before, and have been extremely pleased -- they know their stuff, including Linux, which is (...) (21 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.finance, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic, lugnet.space, lugnet.castle, lugnet.org, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | LUGNET server fund drive a roaring success!
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Update: Thanks to donations totalling over $4K from more than 150 people around the world, we not only hit our target in four short days days but exceeded it -- by a margin wide and comfortable enough to afford a superb hardware configuration and (...) (21 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.org, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
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| | Re: PDX / LTC container swap
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(...) Hi Teunis, this is a very rare container from one of the two Luxembo(u?)rg train heads (Misch and Michel). We swapped those at a FGLTC show a while ago.... I still have not managed to tell Rob Hendrix a "BIG THANK YOU" for managing the (...) (21 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | RE: PDX / LTC container swap
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(...) (URL) 13 are from the first container swap done thru KK Quah in July 2002 for the NMRA show The second Swap was done at Brickfest 2003. (URL) Stormer of GFLTC did a list for the ILTCO here (URL) on the one for July 16, 2003. If you can not (...) (21 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: MOC :-OZ ICON ! The S Class of VR (Victoria Rail)
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(...) Will do! Cheers Richie (21 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.trains)
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(...) To Ross , I have been looking at Brickshelf, for LTC containers. And Have found these pictures. But no M>ltc containers on other clubs, trains !! (URL) this A Dutch LTC? (URL) Teunis. (...) (21 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | MOC :-OZ ICON ! The S Class of VR (Victoria Rail)
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Hello All, Train Heads and Australians. For those of you who were not at BrickFest PDX . I have some pictures of my Victoria Rail S class streamlined stream train.I started this model on the 7th of Feb and finished it on the 11th of Feb.Just in time (...) (21 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Back on track
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(...) Hi Dirk I completely agree with you regarding the new colours. I also have similar feeling of being let down by someone you thought you could thrust. I only wish and hope that you will not give up the fine parts of the hobby. Creating new (...) (21 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | RE: PDX / LTC container swap
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Hi Ross, (...) LCLTC Our containers are Light gray body with a dark gray top and bottom. see here (URL) sure How I missed this. I saw one announcement awhile back. If someone knows who I need to talk to in order to get the ones I missed, I would (...) (21 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Back on track
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Hi Train fans! After I had problems with my email provider and afterwards problems with news setup of my new computer, now I am back on LUGNET! Several unbelievable things have had happend with LEGO and I could only comment this on 1000Steine.de. (...) (21 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Finally, I got around to posting pictures from Brickfest PDX 04
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(...) Tank cars, actually, I would say. (...) (21 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: PDX / LTC container swap
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(...) ?? I don't recall giving Teunis loose stickers! What I recall giving him was two containers (with stickers on both sides), in exchange for 2 M>LTC containers (but maybe you got some from John Neal, as I see below in the part of the post I (...) (21 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Images of GFLTC at the SMRC Show
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(...) Great job guys, I'm always amazed at the quality and size of layouts you do with so few people putting it together. jt (21 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.org.us.gflug)
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| | Brickfest PDX photos (finally)
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Well I finally made it home, and here's my contribution to the pile of photos: (URL) me if there's way too many crane shots, but I think you all know where my priorities lie by now ;) Enjoy! ROSCO (21 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: PDX / LTC container swap
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(...) Sorry for the delay :) OK here's the list: Containers: MichLTC, white with blue top/bottom (3 containers + 1 set stickers) GFLTC, blue with yellow top/black bottom (1 container + 1 set stickers) Stickers (we need to know what colour containers (...) (21 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Images of GFLTC at the SMRC Show
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Train Fans, The members of the Greater Florida LEGO Train Club had a display and a great time one again at the Sarasota Model Railroad Club Train Show last weekend (Feb 21-22, 2004). The 24 x 16 ft layout had three running train loops and models by (...) (21 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.gflug, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.us.fl, lugnet.trains.org) !
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| | MOC: Green Locomotive
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Hi there This is my newest model... I got the idea for the locomotive from a train book, that I borrowed from the local library. For the model I used nearly all my green bricks. (URL) think the roof turned out very well. (URL) used a lot of SNOT (...) (21 years ago, 26-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.dk, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: "Fallen Flags" Link !!
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PS, this link looks like it might be worth using to do some research (URL) has a boatload of links to various ATSF topics. (21 years ago, 26-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: "Fallen Flags" Link !!
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(...) What was at the Fallen Flags link that is in the header was a very nice write up on the ATSF Super Chief, giving details about the train, its consist and a bit of history, etc. I agree with Teunis, that link doesn't seem to work any more. (...) (21 years ago, 26-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: "Fallen Flags" Link !!
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(...) Teunis, I saw you posted this message a number of times with no response... I just checked out (URL) it seems to be working just fine. You probably are looking for (URL) this helps :) -- Bill (TooMuchDew) (21 years ago, 26-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Pictures and Show report COLTC at GATS Cincinnati
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Last weekend COLTC participated at the Cincinnati GATS. We were given very little time to organize this, GATS called us just two weeks before the show, they wanted more layouts. Less than a handfull of members could attend, but we had just enough (...) (21 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.us.oh, FTX) !
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| | Re: NGLTC pictures from Feb. Atlanta Greenberg show
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(...) Well the first bridge opens: (URL) just the other bridges that where the problem :) (URL) (21 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Pictures from the second Great Western LEGO Train Show at the STEAM Museum, Swindon, UK
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(...) That's because Huw's got a posh camera with auto-focus and per-pixel exposure control. Mind you, Martin's brings out the dark red quite nicely too ;-)(URL) Railton (21 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: NGLTC pictures from Feb. Atlanta Greenberg show
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(...) The other bridges were built later. (21 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: NGLTC pictures from Feb. Atlanta Greenberg show
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Lewis Valentine wrote in message ... (...) sky... Kevin ---...--- Farmhouse kit: (URL) TOWN PLANNING information: (URL) Lego parts store: (URL) Guild of Bricksmiths(TM): (URL) (21 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: reed switch/codepilot question
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yeah, it should, as both a touch switch and a reed switch ar digital switches, they can only give a 1 or a 0 to the codepilot Bob Clough (...) (21 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.codepilot, lugnet.trains)
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| | reed switch/codepilot question
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Greetings, I was looking at using a reed switch to control some train stuff. Unfortunately I only have a codepilot rather than an RCX. The codepilot accepts touch sensors. I've read ( (URL) ) that you tell the RCX to treat the reed as a touch (...) (21 years ago, 24-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.codepilot, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: NGLTC pictures from Feb. Atlanta Greenberg show
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(...) It kind of snuck up on me, I never saw it on the main train page. Just had to mention the choppers. (URL) were awesome! The barge wreck was pretty funny also (URL) (21 years ago, 24-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Pictures from the second Great Western LEGO Train Show at the STEAM Museum, Swindon, UK
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(...) for the front cab. Nice work on the wave color boundary. (URL) Mathis (21 years ago, 24-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Santa Fe B-Unit and Window Decal for stickers
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(...) give them a try. later, James Mathis (21 years ago, 24-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Pictures from the second Great Western LEGO Train Show at the STEAM Museum, Swindon, UK
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Someone else commented that, from the thumbnail, it looks like the 'real thing' That's Jason Railton's Castle class loco underneath Tony Priestman's station canopy, and was photographed by the trainspotter on the platform :-) It's a fantastic venue (...) (21 years ago, 24-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Santa Fe B-Unit and Window Decal for stickers
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(...) Ahem. Not according to Das Lexikon...:-) (...) Okay, that's cool! I'll have to try out some! (...) Well, you could always go to (URL) and simply buy the decals and they'd look great! The link I provided is "O" scale, but you compression freaks (...) (21 years ago, 24-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Santa Fe B-Unit and Window Decal for stickers
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(...) Try this for size It's not the most detailed art work ever made but it works for the size and application: (URL) looks reasonably good on mine: (URL) (21 years ago, 24-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | w00t! Fund Drive for LUGNET Servers
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We appreciated your patience during the downtime today Thank you for bearing an unusually long downtime today. We certainly weren't expecting a 9-hour outage simply for the replacement of a disk. You may have noticed on the LUGNET homepage during (...) (21 years ago, 24-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.org, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Pictures from the second Great Western LEGO Train Show at the STEAM Museum, Swindon, UK
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(...) terrific! (URL) Mathis (21 years ago, 24-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Santa Fe B-Unit and Window Decal for stickers
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(...) We're all Herr Zugscheilmeren (is that the plural?). The decals leave "no sticky residue", or at least it's so minimal I can't see or feel it. They're intended to be applied, removed, and reapplied, I think. (URL) (...) That logo looks great. (...) (21 years ago, 24-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | NGLTC pictures from Feb. Atlanta Greenberg show
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The NGLTC presented a layout at the Greenberg Toy & Train show this past weekend. One of the new features encluded a RCX controlled draw bridge that lifted every 8 minutes and stopped the trains so no one fell into the river below. All the pictures (...) (21 years ago, 24-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org) !
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| | Re: "Fallen Flags" Link !!
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(...) Hello all , Could this link be fixed ? Or does anyone now how to find that page ? Thanks, Teunis. (21 years ago, 23-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | PDX / LTC container swap
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Hello All , We have swaped a few LTC containers & stickers at Brickfest PDX . But,I'm not sure which ones at the moment as ROSCO has them. (please put list here) We have mainly stickers , and we need to know what colour the containers are for each (...) (21 years ago, 23-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Streamliner Dome Car Instructions Corrected and BF PDX 2004
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(...) Many Thanks James, For all of the great words ! But, my Lego train building skills would not be at this level if it wasn't for All of the other train builders posting pictures of their MOC's on brickshelf. To inspire me to build better and (...) (21 years ago, 23-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | End of the line for the Metroliner?
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I was looking at some Metroliner items on eBay this weekend and thought I'd check out shop at home to give me a guide price. Imagine the shock when it turned out that 10002 (the bi-level coach) is no longer available! 10001 (the metroliner) is still (...) (21 years ago, 23-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Three Jake McKee posters
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Hi all, You maybe know about the book Jake wrote. There are 3 posters of models featured in the book; a UP diesel locomotive, a container well car and a reefer. The posters are in the style of the book. Please go to www.digitalbricks.nl and have a (...) (21 years ago, 23-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Pictures from the second Great Western LEGO Train Show at the STEAM Museum, Swindon, UK
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We, the Brickish Association, put on our second display at the STEAM museum (www.steam-museum.co.uk) on Saturday 21/Feb/04. Seven of us contributed to a 3m x 12m (6' x 36') layout, and Mark Bellis bought a small layout and his 8mm:ft scale trains. (...) (21 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.uk) !!
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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(...) [snip] (...) Paul- Thank you! I know that you guys had a lot of great ideas, and I'll contact you via email to discuss some details! Jennifer Boger legofan.net (21 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains) !
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| | Re: Santa Fe B-Unit and Window Decal for stickers
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(...) Hello, (URL) Herr Zugschleimer>:-) Cool. Do they have adhesive on them, or are they the clingy type? (...) I have a nice vector image that I can easily colorize, but it appears to be a later version of the logo. I can easily replace the circle (...) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Santa Fe B-Unit and Window Decal for stickers
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I have found at Wal-Mart an (URL) Window Decal material> for making custom stickers. Quantity six 8.5x11-inch sheets in one package, US$7.93, by Hammermill. (URL) I've used it to make a (URL) Santa Fe logo sticker> for the sides of a (URL). (2 URLs) (...) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Two shades of purple?!
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If you look close at the picture, there appear to be two different shades of purple in the model. Is this because it's a prototype or close-to-finished final model of some kind? Or am I just seeing things? Also, the driver has a purple cap! Dave (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Taking LUGNET to the next level
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Chats with people at BrickFest PDX last weekend got me thinking a lot more about LUGNET and its role in the community. I've bounced some of my thoughts off of various people (including three people from LEGO) and responses varied from positive to (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.publish, lugnet.trains, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.lego.direct, FTX) !!
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| | Re: hogwarts
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Thanx for the help guys much appreciated, kinda new to this stuff. Still a lurker. (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Large and Small Purple Train Windows
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"Mike Walsh" <mike_walsh@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:Ht9Ezu.1r2v@lugnet.com... (...) as (...) Altered States Magazine has their coverage of the Toy Fair up and more details of the Knights Bus can bee seen. (URL) set will have 2 purple (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Nano trains
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Who is the owner of this (URL) ? I want to talk to him or her and I want ideas about nano trains, towns... Eduardo (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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(...) why don't you guys just take over WorldLUG. I'll give you the whole architecture. Anybody can develop any module in any language, plus you can syndicate all the content out to people's sites using XML/SOAP/RSS etc. jus email me if you want, (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | COLTC at GATS Cincinnati Feb 21-22
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COLTC will participate at coming weekends' GATS show. The show hours are 11 AM to 5 PM, both days, and will be held at the Cincinnati Convention Center, 6th and Elm streets. We will have a 28 x 10 foot layout, with 3 train loops, and 2 monorail (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.us.oh) !
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| | Streamliner Dome Car Instructions Corrected and BF PDX 2004
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Issues with the image formatting in the Streamliner Dome Car instruction book have now been corrected. Also, Santa Fe has officially permitted me to reference to the Santa Fe and Super Chief names in the book, such that the book now features a (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: hogwarts
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(...) This question pops up from time to time in this newsgroup. A quick search on keywords "motorize hogwarts express" reveals two previous treads where you'll find some more detailed and additional information on the subject: (URL) The Lego (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: hogwarts
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Shona, I believe the Hogwarts Express instructions have a page showing you how to attach the motor and conventional train wheels. You can find scans here: (URL) by Theme and jump to the Harry Potter section. Bryan "Shona Brodley" (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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I have a hogwarts express, and I wan to know how to motorize it. Is it hard? (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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Looks like the Knights Bus will also have a purple 1x2x3 train window in addition to the pile (19?) of purple 1x4x3 train windows. (URL) looks like the best 2004 set IMHO. I really hope the purple is the same shade which appeared in the blue TRU (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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I have updated the info page for my presentation with the detailed notes from the session, which are more detailed and better organised, and with more links, than the presentation on the CD. They are available in HTML or Word DOC format. I've also (...) (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.trains)
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(...) [snip] (...) Hi All, I'm following up on my earlier post (above). I purchased some of these DZ123 decoders and finally got around to installing a couple of them. Street price for me ended up being about $16 (US) each. Installation went (...) (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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(...) Darn. That'll teach me to to post from memory when I've just got home from a trip! Correct link is: (URL)PDX attendees got a copy of a (...) some for (...) The notes which will be at that link later today are more detailed and better organised (...) (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: ILTCO Article - Making heavy-duty powered LEGO® Track Connections for Public Display Layouts
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(...) very detailed presentation on their event CD, though. Kevin cut it down some for what he actually presented. (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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(...) I'm a professional Software Engineer with 3 years of PHP and mysql experience, were I to log in and discover poorly commented, badly structured, inefficent code I don't think I'd laugh, I think I'd fix it. As a community, I think you are (...) (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: ILTCO Article - Making heavy-duty powered LEGO® Track Connections for Public Display Layouts
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James Powell wrote in message ... (...) W or (...) I still have to post the final detailed presentation notes, but the page related to my BF PDX presentation on Operation is here: (URL) kit: (URL) TOWN PLANNING information: (URL) Lego parts store: (...) (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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(...) Icky. What about when amatures come in and write code that is... laughable... at best. Then you have a website made of mangled, chaotic code that definetly does not help the community at all. Poor commenting, bad structure, inefficent (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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(...) 1) That the site software will be published under an Open Source license. 2) That the content (or at least as much as possible of it) will be available as a whole under an Open Source license. 3) Probably also that we will set up a formal (...) (21 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: ILTCO Article - Making heavy-duty powered LEGO® Track Connections for Public Display Layouts
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(...) What I did for the Train Operating Weekend last year was to make 12 gauge wire connectors, run into screw type connectors. These each had a 2x2 plate connector wired to it (not the lego original ones, but ones made from plates, with 18 ga (...) (21 years ago, 14-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Idea for a track power pickup for non motored trains...
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(...) I've used a 27 mHz hobby setup powering a 4.5V motor before. It worked quite well, for about 1 hour at a time. However, it required 10 N cell batteries to power it. It fit into a battery car that had the guts cut out of it (I have a spare...). (...) (21 years ago, 14-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yes, they are handbrakes. (...) It doesn't particularly matter- the way that brakes are dealt with on trains now is that they are a fail on device. I think that the hand brake wheel is to take the brakes OFF rather than put them on- I don't do (...) (21 years ago, 14-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Last year I built a tram and the power came from a 9V battery box (heavy, the battery are quickly out...), and it is not very recommended to make circulate a tram without control (just on/off) on a circuit with other trains. I realized a (...) (21 years ago, 14-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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Hello! I am back for a short remark:-) I have tried to make a steam engine based on the Danish E-Type using BBB´s wheels and I have to say I am very happy to be able to use these wheels! Tell me what you think as this is my first ever atempt to (...) (21 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) SNIP (...) Very nice. I especially had to chuckle at the Dad and son pop-up towards the end of the first movie. Andreas (21 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains.org)
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Hi im going to be using a potentiometer to control a train, it will be connected to the sensor input, just wondering when i program it do i define it as a rotation sensor? thanks steven (21 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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Hello! (...) Well, most AFOLs already have been LEGO fans as kids and - after a periode of neglecting the brick, the so called 'dark ages' - found back to their old love. That means: For the purpose of growing hard core LEGO fans it's necassary to (...) (21 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains) !
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(...) link again. The videos are at the bottom of the page. (URL) were made by mounting a video camera on a train car and having the train push it around. Thanks and enjoy John (21 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: Idea for a track power pickup for non motored trains...
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Thanks I'll take your advice. I want to use it with DCC, I have DZ143 for my locos but I havent decided which one I will use for cars. Gustav (21 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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(...) why not just add a few new links/rearranging the front/homepage of LUGnet to make the central portal for the community? Jeff (21 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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(...) <snip> What exactly does it mean to be "community owned"? Is the site going to be like a WIKI and anyone can change the content? Is there going to be a controlling body (say, for example, of 9 people) who are going to make all the decisions (...) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
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(...) With my CN engine I found it necessary to put a capacitor across the leads to smooth out the flicker. It worked quite well. I used the kind of cap that didn't have a pos or neg. it could be used both ways. (URL) This worked pretty good for (...) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Yes is a good idea, but I have two problems, one the schools are on vacation (now is summer in the south), and the seconds is a difficult to find a CNC lathe in our technical school here. But I will try Best Regards (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yes the LED flickers, a little, and I will do the same with the others wheels, it works and is very cheap. I need to work to improve the electric contact, maybe this weekend Best Regards (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hi all, To cut back on costs, isn't it possible to let a technical school making those metal wheels on a CNC lathe? It could be an practical exercise for the students (programming the CNC lathe and see the result) and cost effective for the (...) (21 years ago, 11-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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