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(...) Hi Larry and Ross, I want to be sure I'm understanding this correctly: The simple act of pushing through the points won't cause the short. In other words, if you push a car with regular wheelsets through the points it won't cause the (...) (20 years ago, 11-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Hi Steve, Teunis Davey has given me the chassis for his S class steamer to show, and I'll bring my simple shay bogie as well. ROSCO (20 years ago, 11-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.events)
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(...) Note that these deliberate, if momentary, shorts may *possibly* have a long term negative effect on your controllers. This would probably not work well with regular Model Railroad gear, but then it's not designed to take the abuse that kids (...) (20 years ago, 11-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) That, as I see it, is the idea. The point B is always set straight. There may be momentary short(s) when the motor pushes it to curve to pass, but once it is past and stops, switching A then supplies it with current, now in the opposite (...) (20 years ago, 10-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Hello, interesting design and quite simple, but like Larry pointed out, no matter what is the position of "A", if you set "B" to turn, you get a short. Leave "B" to strait amd when a train come to "B", it will push the alingment to pass and (...) (20 years ago, 10-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) That's insane! The website also mentioned that to get boats to the wheel they also had to build the aqueduct and a tunnel. A canal tunnel. Wow. Rick Clark (20 years ago, 10-Aug-04, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Hi and welcome! (I have to ask, out of curiousity and nothing else, what's up with the transposition on your name vs. posting name though, there has to be a story there.. I noticed it when I approved your posting setup recently) (...) Doesn't (...) (20 years ago, 10-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Hey! That's really neat. I never thought of that. Nice work. (...) You don't need to cut track to make insulations, btw. Just a tiny slip of paper between the connectors will keep electricity from flowing. I recommend marking insulating points (...) (20 years ago, 10-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Hello, this is my first post to Lugnet. Maybe this is common knowledge in Lego train community, but I have never seen mentioned that points can be used as insulated tracks. Here is an example of reversing loop with standard Lego parts: (URL) You (...) (20 years ago, 10-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) No spy photos of the new NGLTC container, but I will say "It spins" :) jt (20 years ago, 10-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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(...) I think JT's got it exactly right. Organizations grow and change and keeping multiple containers is a way for other organizations to track that growth and change. Just out of curiosity (not that I won't find out soon enough) what's changing? (...) (20 years ago, 10-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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(...) I think the "fun" is the collectablilty of the containers. It's natural for the designs to change over time thus making each container a type of time capsule of the event they were swapped at. The NGLTC container will be new this year but I (...) (20 years ago, 10-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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(...) Mike - The ostensible reason is that it's easier to keep track of everything if we do a direct swap (we failed to keep good track of the original bunch). The real reason is that a few of us in the club don't really like the look of the old (...) (20 years ago, 10-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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(...) MichLUG/LTC records indicate we have no SCLTC cars. :-) We do, however, have an SCLTC container, which we'd prefer to keep if possible. We would be happy to trade with you for your new one though. (as it turns out, the MichLTC container went (...) (20 years ago, 9-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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"Thomas Michon" <thomas@michon.com> wrote in message news:I2789C.Au8@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) 2004 (...) ones (...) be (...) have, (...) Why would you want to do this? Honestly, I'd prefer to keep the one we have AND get the new (...) (20 years ago, 9-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) The SCLTC would like to exchange every existing SCLTC car with a brand new 2004 model. We are bringing 22 new containers and would like to bring the old ones back with us. If clubs that have our cars could bring them to DC, it would be greatly (...) (20 years ago, 9-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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I posted this... should have crossposted. Which trainsets did use the old couplers, but are not blue? Read more here: (URL) (20 years ago, 9-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains)
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"Michael Huffman" <mhuffman@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:I26ry8.13zp@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) NCLTC will be bringing a new container to BrickFest. It is essentially the same container design we have used in the past (see (...) (20 years ago, 9-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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The Union Canal in Scotland has a pretty interesting lock mechanism for moving boats between two levels, called the Falkirk Wheel. Here's an animation to show it off: (URL) Boats move between the top and bottom levels via the wheel. More images are (...) (20 years ago, 9-Aug-04, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Here's a link to the swap matrix: (URL) Let me know if there's any questions, problems or concerns. --Michael BrickFest 2004 Container Swap Coordinator See you in Arlington! (20 years ago, 9-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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