 | | Re: German DB v200/v220 Loc OR What I learned at BrickFest PDX
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(...) I should have put a (URL) link to pics of the real-life DB v200>. And, here is a rendering of the v200 build which uses four more of the hard-to-find rare 6-wide split windscreen in black. To find 6 of those black windscreens...ugh. (...) (...) (21 years ago, 4-Mar-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | New projekt: a giant mountain.
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Hi, this is my first post on lugnet.com. Since two years, I think, I am collecting grey, dark grey, brown and green parts for my new project: a giant mountain with channels, a red brigde in front of a waterfall. I didn't complete it yet, there are (...) (21 years ago, 4-Mar-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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| | Re: German DB v200/v220 Loc OR What I learned at BrickFest PDX
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(...) Hello, James . Another great train, you have built ! There are Australian versions too. Simalar to Santa Fe Super Cheif (URL) this link does not work please try :- www.srhc.org.au ,then go to Photo's , then B74 50th Anniversary Tour This train (...) (21 years ago, 4-Mar-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | RE: German DB v200/v220 Loc OR What I learned at BrickFest PDX
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(...) Oooooh. I have this actual Marklin train from when I was a kid. Nice. Ralph (21 years ago, 4-Mar-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | German DB v200/v220 Loc OR What I learned at BrickFest PDX
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Thanks to Ben Beneke I learned these two things at BrickFest PDX: 1) A German counter-part to the fabled Santa Fe style warbonnett locomotive is the German DB v200 or v220(?). 2) 7-wide is beautiful ;-) Here's my first go at the (URL) DB v200/v220 (...) (21 years ago, 4-Mar-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Metroliner 10001 (nearly) sold out! Was: What is the point of having shop @ home??
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Hi Eli, another point why you can get some sets in one shop and not in the other: The item might be sold out and discontinued. Yes, the Legend-Metroliner will be discontinued, when it is sold out and it will be sold out _VERY_ soon (at least in (...) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: What is the point of having shop @ home??
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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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| | Re: What is the point of having shop @ home??
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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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| | Re: What is the point of having shop @ home??
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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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| | Re: Drawbridge house
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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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| | Re: How do I build a Train/Railway without Train parts
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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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| | Re: How do I build a Train/Railway without Train parts
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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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| | Re: How do I build a Train/Railway without Train parts
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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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| | Re: Drawbridge house
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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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| | 7-Wide Jeep
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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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| | Re: PDX / LTC container swap
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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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