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(...) Great job Steve, that really captures the look of the mine building. Nice use of the spotty grey effect. jt (20 years ago, 24-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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HI All, Wow, posts abound! AWESOME... So here's yet another Turtle Creek MOC page: (URL) It was a wonderfully fun build especially with Kelly McKiernan, a fellow GPLR member, helping out! This is not quite complete, the roof(s) are temporary, but (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX) !!
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(...) "The TGV by far is my Favorite train." ... Now there is an understatement. Those of us who know Dave always give him a bad time about the custom padded aluminum briefcase he carries it around in. It went as carry on when PNLTC flew down to (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains)
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This is really awesome! The tilting mechanism is delightfully simple (though perhaps only from hindsight, neh? :) ), and the effect is sweet. -Stefan- (20 years ago, 24-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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G'Day This is the method i most commonly use, as the wire comes of the motor block and enters the 'fuel tanks' i put a horizontal loop in the wire before in goes up into the body of the loco, seems to give it enough play that the motor swings (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I like it. I am impressed by the mutil-level operations. The use of white seems to get overlooked. (20 years ago, 24-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains)
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Yesterday worked out to be pretty productive. Made a donation to Home Depot and bought a straight edge for the long plywood rip cuts. Good thing I didn't have to show both sides as a finished edge. The carbide teeth really ate away at the topside of (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) That's a great idea, way too few danish trains out there! May I suggest this one: (URL) ... the newest (and most cool!) danish train. It's doing test runs at the moment, delayed by a year or so due to incompetent italian construction (but (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Hello Esben, You have built a really good model train ! 10/10 ! It's good to see people from all around the world ,building Australian trains. I really like all of the tilt mechanisms that people have built . I've been planing to build a APT (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) nope. Maybe better to send this sort of thing in email first and only post if you get blown off, but these are all good suggestions. On my todo list. (20 years ago, 24-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains)
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I'dve sent a direct mail about this to Larry but I thought it'd be better to hear what the other .train folks would have to add to this list first. I think the sidebar is WAY overdue for an update. Some nice MOCs have come along recently, like (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hey dont be so hard on your self. I go by Dave or David. I am glad you could check out my ,still in the works, website. I did some more work on the site today. It now has some much needed HTML so it shows the pictures in nice tables. The TGV (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Wow! Thanks for calling this to attention. It's great. I love this solution for the tilting mechanism! Great inspiration. I hope we can find a way to make it more robust and perhaps also work for trains with coaches that share wheelsets. (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains)
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Cooool! our beloved Tilt train! looks groovy :D sadly we lost one late last year in an accident and it won't be replaced :( but we have a couple left... not an expensive trip either. Nice train! wanna sell me a ticket? ;) Mel back in Brisbane, (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) D'OH! Got your name wrong, David! I'm sorry- hope you'll forgive me. Legoswami Samarth (20 years ago, 24-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I was looking through these yesterday and was wondering who you were! I wanted to make a 'found this on MOCpages' post, but I'm glad I waited. I really liked the TGV. It has a good toy (ie 6-wide) scale, and uses fairly common parts. I'm not (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains)
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I've been working on a bridge and retaining wall for our next show and just thought I get some feedback from the community. Although it's still in a developmental state here's a preview pic: (URL) the folder after moderation: (URL) Darrow IndyLUG / (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains) !
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(...) Gee, is Steve the guy I stole the hand rail thing from? Thanks for the idea Steve.* Chris (20 years ago, 24-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi all, (URL) V/line N-set> Well these have been built for a while, but I only just got around to taking some pics. (URL) N-sets> are used for the bulk of inter-city passenger trains in Victoria, so I built a set to be pulled by my (URL) N-class>, (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.loc.au, FTX) !
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(...) Very nice, and technically very interesting. The only comment I'd make is that, while your model is very cool, the power cars on the real tilt train don't actually tilt, only the passenger cars do. Allister (20 years ago, 24-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | My new page at MOCpages.
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Hello all you LEGO train AFOLs. I wanted to let you all know about my growing MOC's page. Its still needs some work but I am adding new pics every day. Most of the MOC's are trains but there will be a few buildings and other interesting/fun MOC's. (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Sweeeeeeeet! That roof really does look good! And the gravity system is really quite cool - it means that it doesn't tilt as far when going slowly, just like the real train. ROSCO (20 years ago, 23-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Whoops! Didn't remember this one, and I *think* one in 7740 colours cropped up once on MOCPages too! My Bad :-@ (...) I suppose this is the price of animated funtionality in trains.... even 8 wide scale isn't enough sometimes. I've been toying (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: The Queensland Tilt Train - and it tilts!
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(...) I built a tilting train many years ago based loosely on the 4559 and used this principle - 2x2 turntables angled on hinges. I still have some paper pics somewhere. The design used leading bogies at the front to effect the tilt and a passive (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New Train Moc - Simple Red Caboose
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(...) That might be a while! :) I hope you don't wait. As others have said, the idea of trying to do a Turtle Creek just rocks. It would be so cool if you could bring it to Cincy! As for the caboose itself, while I think it's a bit short, I like it (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: The Queensland Tilt Train - and it tilts!
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(...) A long time ago there was an example of another kind of active tilt (this QSR one uses gravity, near as I can tell) posted by, IIRC, Eric Brok. (URL) That one used 45 degree sloped pivots to force turns as the cars went through curves. VERY (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) The movie (URL) You're absolutely right, well spotted, I didn't notice that myself. The thing is, I ran out of train weights for the second car, so its not quite as heavy as the first car. It has got two implications: Firstly, the car doesn't (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) In your movie #4, the train goes through much of the last turn with the wrong tilt..., like the last car got "stuck" in the previous tilt. Is something jamming? Great work! :] KDJ ___...___ LUGNETer #203 (20 years ago, 23-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Samarth, perhaps you missed this one: (URL) A 4-car British Pendolino, using bevel gears for the tilt. This means it can cope well with double bends (the Hornby APT rises up on double bends because it relies on a tilted curved track on which (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Made a decent dent in the benchwork framing yesterday. Turns out I was short a 2x4 for the narrow connector between the two loops. Since I had done the drywall finishing myself, I went ahead and bolted the framing directly to the wall studs. I went (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains)
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Congratulations, Esben! Thats a fine looking train. I find the tilt mechanism very interesting! Only one other tilt train I know of is James Mathis' APT, which from what I know, uses a similar mechanism. It's a pity that this doesn't have interiors, (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Hey everyone, Just returned to my pile of Lego bricks after half a year on exchange at the University of Queensland in Brisbane... Australia is awesome, I reckon! Anyway, I came across this wonderful train with a name that says it all, the Tilt (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.loc.dk, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.au.qld.bri, lugnet.loc.au.qld.bun, lugnet.loc.au.qld.cai, lugnet.loc.au.qld.roc, lugnet.loc.au.qld.mac, FTX) !!
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on a very nice model (URL) hope I'm not stealing anyone's thunder but I saw this train in the new folders on Brickshelf and had to post. As well as simple but clever tilt technique it looks really good, with a complicated front well rendered in the (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains) !
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THANKS EVERYONE! Not only for the compliments but for the courteous exchange! I have to admit that it feels good too! :) It was just one of those MOCs that just came together. I guess I have been so obsessed with building in rare colors that I (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hey Steve, nicely done. Traditional, detailed, clean design, and RED!!! Spotlighted! Looking forward to following the developments in TCBL. Janey "Red Brick" (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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This is a really awesome idea! Someone else said it, and I agree, it would be awesome to see this in MR. I'll bet they never expected their design to inspire someone to this end. The truck hood is a neat idea and the stairs on the caboose are nicely (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Super duper. I think that is a great caboose. You did a great job all around, and I like the way you installed the front and rear facing airplane windows backwards. Simple, subtle, and effective, cudos. Chris (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Oh I'll have to disagree with that. When we run the Rail Racers at shows and events the kids line up, big and little. Maybe it's the lights, maybe its smell of train tires burning, maybe it's the cool space age trains, maybe its screaming (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) I too, say thank you. I'm hoping there will be several new sculpture kits introduced this year. There are only 5 sculpture kits currently for sale at S@H (in the US anyhow). With the Statue of Libery, Mini Figure, and several others selling (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) Yes, we certainly are. But the pre-school kids don't find drag-racing *cool*. Maybe for the bigger kids and adults... The younger kids much prefer train layouts they can go round and round many laps like the Grand Prix. And ones in which they (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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