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Matt- All of the show info can be found here: (URL) if you come and perhaps I can get you a pass. From the airport it should take you no more than 20 minutes. -John (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: NELUG at Mindfest, A quick summary and more photo's.
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(...) [amazing list snipped] (...) Not a scold, but three very important people to note: Kekoa Proudfoot Dave Baum Markus Noga (according to Wired News article at (URL)) I wish I had been there, just to see these three on the Extreme Mindstorms (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.vt, lugnet.loc.us.nh, lugnet.loc.us.me, lugnet.trains)
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Looks like I can be in St. Paul during either Nov. 13 and 14. Can someone tell me the time of the show on each day and how long it takes to get there from the airport? or even the website with that info. Thanks (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains)
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I just updated my web site with some pics of a metroliner monorail that was displayed at the PNLTC Train Show this past weekend. I also added a picture of a new side mounted light sensor for my trolley project. Thanks for looking. -- Scott Smallbeck (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: NELUG at Mindfest, A quick summary and more photo's.
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Eric Kingsley <kingsley@nelug.nospam.org> wrote in message news:FK5sLo.Mu8@lugnet.com... (...) feel (...) I was there too. Michael Gasperi It was a great time that went by in a flash. The sensor building workshops I held were packed with over 30 (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.vt, lugnet.loc.us.nh, lugnet.loc.us.me, lugnet.trains)
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First let me say that Mindfest was a booming success and we all had alot of fun. We learned alot about presenting in public, both good and bad. We had substantial interest in our table and everything went very well all things considered. This is (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.vt, lugnet.loc.us.nh, lugnet.loc.us.me, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Help with combining RCX and trains...
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(...) Will Chapman's page (you can get to it from PNLTC's site), has a description (and animation) of what's inside train motors. James P (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains)
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <3813D4A3.2E69C446@v...er.net>... (...) I'm willing to do the surgery (gasp), just wanted some idea of how to open the train motor housing in some non-horrifically-disfiguring manner. (...) That's what I looking to (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Mindfest pics... one train pic.
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Who's that handling my Doodlebug! (URL) at least Matthew got ONE picture of some of the train stuff I brought. (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains)
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It's dead easy if you are willing to have the RCX be stationary... just run the wallwart into the RCX power port, then have one of the motor controls go to the track. If you want to have the RCX onboard, powered by the rails, and controlling the (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains)
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I would like to run a train with the Mindstorms RCX. I seem to remember reading about someone applying 9 volts to the rails, picking that power up through the powered bogey (sp?) to run the RCX onboard the train, and using one of the motor outputs (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Cramped city with a train and a monorail running through it soon. Need some help on how to do this.
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Why don't you tell us all about the pictures when you can show them to us ? :) John Matthews Ryan Smith <kyblue2@zoomnet.net> wrote in message news:FK34vv.Evv@lugnet.com... (...) to do (...) take (...) pointers. I (...) be (...) (25 years ago, 24-Oct-99, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Somebody has got to want to see it, I hope:) (25 years ago, 24-Oct-99, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Maybe if I can find a camera, scan (...) I finally found a camera so I took pictures of it today. Now all I have to do is get the pictures developed. I've got like 15 or so pictures left to take Anybody know what other pictures I could take? (...) (25 years ago, 23-Oct-99, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Ranting about Lego trains!
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(...) Of course, Ben, you realize you are preaching to the choir, so rant all you want. I am a Lego model railroader because of my 2 and 4 year old rail fans. They loved my N-scale layout but were frustrated because they could not participate (I was (...) (25 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains)
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The GMLTC will be showing at the GATS in a few weeks in St Paul, MN. *That* would be worth a visit, but maybe not all the way from Philly.... -John (...) (25 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains)
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The Northern Virginia LTC is tentatively planning to be at the GATS, Feb 26 and 27, 2000 in Gaithersburg, MD. I sent away for the application to display a layout last week. It would possibly be our first showing, if another show doesn't come (...) (25 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains)
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Ben, Thanks for the reply. Saved me $5 x 2 admission to the thing. I really look forward to seeing a PNLTC-style Lego layout in person someday. This might be another topic - but it seems to me like Lego is putting a bit more emphasis on trains this (...) (25 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains)
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Chances are you'll not see any LEGO trains. Nor will any of the vendors have anything related to LEGO. Most wouldn't even know LEGO makes trains. Let alone having done so for 30+ years. The GATS organizers I've spoken to hadn't seen anything like (...) (25 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Great American Train Shows - Worth visit?
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The Great American Train show is steaming into the Ft. Washington Convention Center in suberban Philadelphia this weekend. I want to go, but my wife and I already have a packed weekend and I'm mostly interested only in Lego trains. Given that, is it (...) (25 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains)
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