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(...) Hi John, It's nice getting a reply from you. I fell in love with the 8 wides when it clicked in my head: I had two failed 6-wide designs for the WDP-4, and the only way to get the front windows to look right, was NOT to use this piece of you (...) (20 years ago, 15-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | GATS Pictures and Report - MichLTC
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(4 URLs) GATS contacted MichLTC on the Thursday before the event. A model railroad club had pulled out at the last second and we were called in to save the day. We were able to get a 10x12.5 layout planned in less than 48 hours and GATS was very (...) (20 years ago, 15-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.events, FTX)
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(...) (snip) Hello, Samarth, and welcome to trains-- glad you decided to delurk:-) I'm also gratified to see another 8 wide convert; (BTW thanks for the kind words) inspiring young minds with LEGO trains is a major reason why I build and share. You (...) (20 years ago, 15-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Hi Everyone, I'm Samarth Moray, and I'm 16. I've been playing with Lego, like most of you, since I was a kid. I'm new to lugnet because this is my first post, but I'm 'old' to lugnet because I've been lurking around for a year now. That basically (...) (20 years ago, 15-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.people.teens, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.mecha)
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This past weekend the North Georgia LEGO Train Club had their second of two building sessions at Egleston Children's hospital in preparation for the NGLTC tree at this year's Children's Healthcare of Atlanta's Festival of Trees. When our tree is (...) (20 years ago, 15-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.general)
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| | M>ltc 2004-5 (aka Arrival of the bonus tubs)
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A fun day again on Sunday. Got lots of details added to the layout. Basically mostly done now except for the big items - the mountains and the bridge. But we should have it all done in time for the model show. (URL) [LEGOSet 4679] But the big news: (...) (20 years ago, 14-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains.org.mltc, FTX)
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(...) Thanks, Ondrew. Well, one could make the ribs out of 1x1x5s instead of 1x2x5s, but other than that, I'm not sure. If the problem is cars breaking away because of the weak LEGO magnets, I'd suggest adding a rare earth magnet between the LEGO (...) (20 years ago, 14-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) a great design as allways john. now if you could just make them lighter. when i built one off of your pictures it was so heavy i couldn't see any feesable way to run it. got any secrets? ondrew niltc (20 years ago, 14-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(URL) I've finally gotten around to taking some pics of my Bethgons with some alternate color schemes, as well as employing my son Ross' truck design. This one shown is a rare color scheme for BNSF cars that were delivered in the period after the (...) (20 years ago, 13-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: A window using SNOT and SNIR techniques
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(...) This is a great, I was wondering whether loading a .pdf would be worth it (takes ages on my PC) but I wasn't disapointed. I had not really noticed James method before but the half-stud-offset-and-tile method is even better! Tim (20 years ago, 13-Nov-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.trains)
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I've searched for this, but haven't come up with anything... I have some monorail points that are sticky. I pretty much can't get them to shift using the slider. A couple of them will switch using the on-track tabs (the ones the train runs over), (...) (20 years ago, 12-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains)
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This week the North Georgia LEGO Train Club had help from some local second graders at Matt Elementry school. Students built holiday tree ornaments in preparation for the NGLTC tree at this year's Children's Healthcare of Atlanta's Festival of (...) (20 years ago, 12-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Steam locomotive drive assembly
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(...) Where? Lester (20 years ago, 12-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains)
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I finally managed to upload my pictures from the Hobby Show. I had a great time there, even though I couldn't stay long on the days that I attended. I only managed to snap a single group shot my first day, so unfortunately I missed getting pictures (...) (20 years ago, 12-Nov-04, to lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, FTX)
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| | Re: Missing Link
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(...) You might wanna change the "American Steam Locomotive Wheels arrangements" link to a generic link to the main page at (URL) add a separate link to the main page, whichever takes your fancy. ROSCO (20 years ago, 12-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Missing Link
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(...) coming in any case. (20 years ago, 12-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Updated registry file for Track Designer
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(...) Oh man, I never even knew that one existed! Whoever made it made more improvements than I did. Some of the baseplates look identical to the ones I added, and their crater baseplate looks much better than mine. OK, after looking at the new (...) (20 years ago, 12-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hi, I allways find things like this very useful, thanx. I didn't download your file yet, but I think it would be better to rename it, so people can use both registries, yours an the original. There is another registry up here since about one (...) (20 years ago, 11-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Steam locomotive drive assembly
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(...) Yes there are ldraw files. (20 years ago, 11-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Updated registry file for Track Designer
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I have an updated registry file for the Track Designer program made by Matt Bates. The registry that comes with the program has many pieces, but there are a few that I and the members of my LUG use in our layouts that aren't in the registry. The new (...) (20 years ago, 11-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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