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(...) You have to be careful using the train base holes with vehicles longer than one base, since the bogie centres distance becomes so large that a motor (4x6 plate size) cannot turn far enough inside the train base on curves, so the vehicle (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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It won't be long until these "digger buckets" are not longer needed! Check out the inital concept for this VO1000 switcher (Yet another Turtle Creek MOC)... (2 URLs) The roof is made up of the new 1x3 rounded bricks (LDRaw #50950) that is used as (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Hi Larry, they are not really rare and appear now and then on Bricklink in amount of dozens. And these are just the black ones. The grey ones are often much more expensive at bricklink and other market places. I was lucky enough to get nearly (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I dunno. *I* think the most difficult part of building one of these is saving up digger buckets till you have enough for a roof! Nice build. Spotlighted. Thanks for sharing! XFUT trains... (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.loc.de, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Mark, The lowest section of the support column is 2x4 duplo bricks. The middle column progresses to 2x8 LEGO brick configuration as it climbs up the back of the module. I do use 1x's on the cross members but all the main support columns never (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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Using this photo (sorry I don't know what program to use to overlay numbers) (URL) tables sizes (32x32 baseplate standard) are as follow: Level One - the first table (with the nuts and bolts) is 4x8, the table directly behind is 4x6 (we call these (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hey Mark, thats a really nice, different application of the 1x2x3-panel-and-2x3 plates technique! I can see it bieng used for (URL) high nose diesel cabs>, it's not as deja vu as the 1 x 2 x 3 train windows, and of course, the colour (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) I can't see how... I was under the impression that it would be easier to simply use stacked plates instead. Embedding a train base would solve a lot of problems with the motor connection issues, since the holes for mating would already be (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I see most of the modules are fascias for the raised table sections. This one (URL) shows me how you've supported the mountain. I can see the cubic structure - about every 16 studs? However, is that a stack of red 1x4 bricks at the middle of (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) OK, a bit bigger than 8-wide, but still applicable... I have used 6x24 bases for 4-wheel wagons, like these two brake vans: (URL) and (URL). I also have another brake van and six 32ft tube wagons (pics to follow soon). I convert the tanker (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Brian, Thanks for the photo documentry! I was wondering if you had time could you label the table sizes? Maybe super impose the sizes on the image ((URL) Did you custom make the tables for this project or did your tables sorta dictate the shape of (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) They work great for floors in large buildings. Think large plate. (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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Thank you everyone for the additional information. I just wanted to make sure there was not an additional special piece used to connect extra cars. (Seems a bit short sighted to me. But then again, LEGO is no longer making this set.) But the ball & (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I believe some builders use them embedded... but they are kinda short for most 8 wide cars.... I have a big stack of them myself because I don't use bases much but I can't bring myself to sell them yet. I think I will use a bunch for a factory (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I try and sell them, along with all of the other "locked in" 6 wide train elements. JOHN (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Okay, I have a question for the 8-wide builders here. I'm pretty sure you must be having a sizeable number of 6 x 24 and 6 x 28 train bases leftover from offical sets because you don't use them. So what do you do with all of them? Legoswami Samarth (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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For immediate release: Contact: Ellen Harrington 650-321-1004 "LEGO® Trains: Only Imagination Required" & "Thomas & Friends in LEGO" Palo Alto, CA: Feb 1 On Wednesday, February 16, 2005 Kenny Paul will be presenting "LEGO® Trains: Only (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sac, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.org.us.baylug, lugnet.org.us.sacbb, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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For Immediate Release Contact: Russell Clark rclark@telis.org 408.605.5412 (cell) SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CA - The Bay Area LEGO Train Club (BayLTC) is pleased to announce that we will be displaying at the Train Collectors Association Cal-Stewart (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sac, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.org.us.baylug, lugnet.org.us.sacbb, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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I took the mountain apart tonight and made some sequential pictures. Some of the boxes are a little snug so I use pieces of a cut up bed sheet to lower the sections in and lift them out. All total it's 17 boxes and 8 table sections. It took about (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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"Bryan Kinkel" <helpdesk@loseyourmind.com> wrote in message news:IBKAzK.o3C@lugnet.com... (...) There are a number of threads on this topic, I myself have built three, four, and six car versions of the Airport Shuttle. I have had great results with (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Motor cutouts (was Re: Vincent Veneman: AMAZING building)
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(...) I've had one motor where the cutout failed. After removal it worked fine. I now remove all of these on my DCC conversions. And rely on the overload protection on the decoder. I was also experimenting with swapping the can motor from a dead (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) I converted 2 of my motors to DCC. And I tapped the pinion gears closer to the motor on bothe. But One of my gearbox still made ratcheting sounds. I'm wondering if it's the gears, or is it the motor combined with DCC? Mat (20 years ago, 7-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) I beleive people have used these [LDrawPart 3183:0] [LDrawPart 3730:0] [LDrawPart 3184:0] [LDrawPart 3731:0] and possibly this [LDrawPart 2508:0] to get more distance between cars for the corners. The non-truck end of the third car then rests (...) (20 years ago, 7-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) William Howard is the expert on this, but I think he used 2x2 plates with ball-and-socket connectors to attach the back of one monorail base to the front of another. Jason Railton (20 years ago, 7-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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I recently won an auction for a 6399 Airport Shuttle. I'm really happy to have finally obtained this set. Digging through my unsorted parts bin, I discovered that I have an extra 4x20 monorail base. But I cannot figure out how to incorporate a third (...) (20 years ago, 7-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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Here are some MOCs built by my wife. They are a flower shop, a bakery, an outdoor BBQ restaurant, a fruit & vegetable stand, a Victorian garden, and a zoo. (URL) (20 years ago, 7-Feb-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains) !
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Here are a couple of stores that I have been bringing to various shows for close to 2 years now. I finally got around to doing photo shoots for my web site. (URL) Will's Grill>: (4 URLs) Pete's Pets>: (3 URLs) They each fit on a 16x32 baseplate, and (...) (20 years ago, 7-Feb-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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| | Motor cutouts (was Re: Vincent Veneman: AMAZING building)
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(...) That's why my big diesels have 2 motors without question. It also makes life easier if both bogies are the same (not for class 28 CoBo!). Big steam engines have 2 motors under the tender, plus any extra ones for driving the wheels. Small steam (...) (20 years ago, 7-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | 10001 out the door?
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I went to the Colorado Mills Lego outlet store on Friday and noticed a shipment of 10001’s that just arrived. I asked the sales person when he received them in and he said a couple of days ago! I purchased a 10133, and a 10027 and as I was walking (...) (20 years ago, 7-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: A lil' Mountain with10 Tunnel Portals
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(...) Hi Mark, I'm going to be boxing the mountain module up this week for a show we're doing in two weeks. I will snap some pictures and post them so you can see how everything goes together. I use smaller tables set on top of the base tables with (...) (20 years ago, 7-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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I'd agree with Mark that technic figs are about 1/20 scale. My metre guage stuff works out at about 1/25 and there are a bit big and my two foot guage stuff at 1/16 and they are definately a too small. Having said that, the figs on this model look (...) (20 years ago, 6-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I probably should stick to things I can understand better. But still, its a nice calculation! (...) This is one thing I pondered about too. With the way they are displayed on his table, it would seem that they were display models. Yet the (...) (20 years ago, 6-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Oooh - that's tricky. I bet viewers spend a lot of time watching to see where the trains are going to appear next! That's always good fun. Thanks! (20 years ago, 6-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I had thought that technic figures were about 1:20 scale, similar to the 18-wide trains at Legoland, but as with minifigures, you can get away with a range of scales and just assume average people are a bit taller or shorter! I see there's one (...) (20 years ago, 6-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I see you have 2 crossovers behind the scenes, one on the green track and one on the yellow. I like the way it enables you to put more tunnel portals in view of the audience. Of course turning round in a small space is essential, not something (...) (20 years ago, 6-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yes, he does seem to have enough parrots for it. Ewwwww! A mountain of bird poop! Legoswami Samarth (20 years ago, 6-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug)
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I saw these earlier on brickshelf but couldn't find them later, until now. I finally stumbled across this again!: (URL) builder says the scale is 1 : 24 on 60mm wide track. Is that technic fig scale? Because I see some technic figs in one of the (...) (20 years ago, 6-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains) !
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Do you have (...) Hi Chris, Here's a close-up picture of the lower bridge. As you can see the bridge is an illusion. I needed to keep it at table level since all the track running under the mountain is on the table. I considered a slight elevation (...) (20 years ago, 6-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I have never modified a motor for DCC. LUCNY isn't that advanvced ... yet. But I have had to fix a couple of motors. One was too far gone, while a couple of others were fixable. The problem I found was the mesh between the motor's pinion gear (...) (20 years ago, 6-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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What's the scoop on getting LEGO train motors to run (and keep running) smoothly? As our motors age, they tend to make grinding gear sounds. This weekend I converted 7 motors to DCC using 5 brand new motors. Some are OK and some grind away, (...) (20 years ago, 6-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: A lil' Mountain with10 Tunnel Portals
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In lugnet.trains, Rob Hendrix wrote: SNIP (...) maybe its guano? (20 years ago, 5-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug)
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(...) Might be worth checking if UV is a common acronym for anything in Danish. ROSCO (20 years ago, 5-Feb-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.parts)
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| | Re: A lil' Mountain with10 Tunnel Portals
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Ok.. in Lar's defense he is a hardcore train modeler first, and Lego maniac second... (...) UNIX Systems, Network and IT Specialist a.k.a. Guesseppi Piegatura di Carta If you aren't having fun, you're doing the wrong thing! All opinions expressed (...) (20 years ago, 5-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug)
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(...) I have no idea myself, but prototype seems reasonable guessing to me. They may have decided that it required too fiddly of a position to cover the opening and that a wider opening was better... Thanks for sharing this, what ever it is! (20 years ago, 5-Feb-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.parts)
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Hi, I already asked this question in the forum at 1000steine.de but nobody could give an answer, although there a many 12V hardcore fans. I also emailed a couple of fans but nobody has ever seen the door at the bottom of the picture: (URL) pic (...) (20 years ago, 5-Feb-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.parts)
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| | Re: A lil' Mountain with10 Tunnel Portals
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(...) This is way cool. So much stuff in such a reasonable space! Do you have a track plan or some kind of top view, so we can see what happens *inside* the mountain? I'm especially curious of the low bridge across the stream. (20 years ago, 5-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug)
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Steve, I wanted to take a minute and tell you how I've enjoyed the progress on your Turtle Creek Branch Line. You've always built beautiful MOCs, and this is no exception, it is really, really cool! The scope of the project is mind boggling and the (...) (20 years ago, 5-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Look out, there's a train coming! You have too many parrots Tim (20 years ago, 5-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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A Jimmy Buffet / Alfred Hitchcock collaboration: (URL) Darrow (20 years ago, 5-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | ParLUGment on Ice - Lego Trains at Winterlude!
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Hi all, Just a friendly reminder if you're in the Ottawa (Ontario, Canada) area - come by and check out our LEGO train layout on the Rideau Canal for the Winterlude festivities. We will be operating from the Canal from 10am to 5pm tomorrow and (...) (20 years ago, 5-Feb-05, to lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.trains)
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With alittle help I was able to eliminate the shadows in the render. It is much easier to see the construction. (URL) you have any questions, just ask. Dave www.GPLR.org (20 years ago, 5-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Ok here you go. I made a render that shows an exploded view. The construction is very simple. There is a top and bottom, then two sides that hold it all together. I also made a small window to show how the trucks connect. Deep link (URL) hope (...) (20 years ago, 4-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: A present for my Dad and a 6 wide tank car.
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(...) James's instuctions are for an 8 wide version. I am currently working on instructions for my 6 wide version. I should have it online shortly and I will let you all know. Dave www.GPLR.org (20 years ago, 4-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yes the ARR version is idenical to the BNSF set. Although there were some small changes do to part availability. Like the hood is not availible in blue. The Raised part behind the cab, I substituted for other slope parts to get the same (...) (20 years ago, 4-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I thought the GP38 was more or less a recolor of the BNSF set... if that's correct, a copy of the set's instructions and some pics to show where the colors split ought to be enough to do your own version... (20 years ago, 4-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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SNIPPIFICATION (...) Hey! *I* criticized... okay so it wasn't what you might call constructive, but then I'll put an addition. You need to open that canyon box and change that black facet on the end coach to a grey one. IMO, it isn't worth the (...) (20 years ago, 4-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Hi Jonathan, James Mathis has done them: (URL) Samarth (20 years ago, 4-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Any chance of seeing instructions posted for the tank cars or the Gp38? (20 years ago, 4-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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I'd love to see pics of the de-construction! And how it's packed up for transport. Thanks SteveB (...) (20 years ago, 4-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug)
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Hello all you train heads. I just wanted to show you a birthday present I gave to my Dad. His birthday was two weeks ago and I made him a custom engine in Alaskan Railroad colors. My Dad is big into HO, and all his trains are in the Alaska road. So (...) (20 years ago, 4-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Kid's Eye View Look at a Mountain
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(...) Yes! Especially since the gallery and pictures are currently marked as not yet public. I wanted to see how Brian's mountain compared with the one we (NALUG) had at our last GETS show. It can be seen here: (URL) info about construction, and how (...) (20 years ago, 4-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(snip). Is this going to NMRA? (...) Ok, I was watching a show on the Canadian midwest provinces around Banff the other day. That water is blue, and an amazing one at that. Now, if you wanna argue the clear brick for water--go to Lake Tahoe. Scott (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug)
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| | Re: Layout Started
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(...) Woodworker's tip and nitpick... 1)Once you've laid out your line, take a utility knife and cut into the wood along the line (both sides if your anal and want a good finish). That will help minimize the splintering that is prevalent when (...) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Kid's Eye View Look at a Mountain
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Larry, Thank you, I will keep this in mind. Brian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Pieniazek" <larry.(mylastname)@...e.DOT.com> To: <lugnet.trains@lugnet.com> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 9:03 PM Subject: Re: Kid's Eye View Look at a (...) (20 years ago, 4-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Please consider posting deeplinks ... that is, click one more time so you get a url of the form (URL) instead of something ending in gallery.cgi (as has been written about many times before, search for deep links for more info) That way (...) (20 years ago, 4-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) (URL) That appears to be on a backdrop, am I missing where the water is on the scenery? MR here in the states seems to run an article about how to do polyurethane (clear) water with fair frequency so I 'm not sure I agree with your limited (...) (20 years ago, 4-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug, FTX)
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James, Here's that Kid's eye view I promised you: (URL) for the dark images, I need better lighting. Brian ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Wilson" <wilson_j_s@yahoo.com> To: <lugnet.trains@lugnet.com>; <lugnet.org.us.indyl...ugnet.com> (...) (20 years ago, 4-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: What's the latest in DCC for LEGO?
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(...) Thanks James, The DZ123 sounds like the economical choice then. Any other advice on installing these? I'm planning to remove the thermal protection disk from the motorbox, what about the surge diode? I assume anti buzzing circuits are no (...) (20 years ago, 4-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: A lil' Mountain with10 Tunnel Portals
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(...) Oh come on people, Lar was expressing his *opinion*. But Lar, I gotta say, water is painted blue on most of the layouts I've seen, scale MR or not. An example: (URL) on our M>ltc layout (URL) snow tipped mountain was only barely taller than (...) (20 years ago, 4-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug)
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(...) Why is a "Disneyish" bad? You make it seem that non-real world accurate scene elements are bad and should never be modelled. I like the look of a "Disneylike" exaggerated scene, maybe that's why I like the Disney parks so much. -Orion (20 years ago, 4-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug)
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(...) Here in Colorado, we get frozen waterfalls that are blue, bright vivid gorgeous blue. It's amazing. Agreed about the snow line- better to have a patch of snow in a gulley or valley- a little tiny glacier. Beautiful work- I'm jealous! I don't (...) (20 years ago, 4-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug)
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(...) Toylike - now I'm laughing, it is a toy! Of course it won't matter. That layout is going to rock!!! -Patrick (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug)
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(...) Any of the xx3 gen digitrax decoders are fine. I'm using DZ123's, and the useful feature is that they incorporate overload protection. I'm using a big boy setup, but basically, you will run out of trains before you run out of control channels (...) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: A lil' Mountain with10 Tunnel Portals
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(...) Whereas I like trans with blue underneath or transblue, I think it looks more like water, since water is transparent. Having blue bricks underneath the transparent layer makes it look blueish but not solid. (...) Which is probably why I would (...) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug)
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| | Re: A lil' Mountain with10 Tunnel Portals
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snipped (...) Odd you should say this. I really like the look of the blue water cascading down the mountain and the way the light reflects off the sloped bricks. It's going to take a tall, tall mountain to really justify a snow cap. Wouldn't you (...) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug)
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| | Re: A lil' Mountain with10 Tunnel Portals
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Thanks to everyone for the kind remarks on the mountain. To answer a few questions: I don't know if I was going for scale compression as much as I was just going for artistic expression. It does give you the impression of some distance from front to (...) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug)
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| | Re: Carriage roof and underframe
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(...) A pretty obvious design, but I don't recall anyone doing it!. Everyone got hung up on the digger buckets (URL) As with wagons, I think steam-age carriages need to have some underframe detail, (...) The best truss rod design i have seen, will (...) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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A couple members of our club, the SCLTC, are investigating DCC. One member, Ted has picked up a Super Chief system from Digitrax. An I've just purchased a Zephyr system. I also picked up a DH163, and a DN123 decocoders. My gear should arrive today. (...) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Brian, That's a great mountain & layout. I can see kids' eyes popping and jaws dropping. It looks like you used some scale compression on the mountain slopes to make it appear taller - is that right? Try taking some pics from a kid's approximate eye (...) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug)
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Some design ideas for a carriage roof, trying to get those shallow curves without using slopes or stacked plates: (URL) view of the components: (URL) you 8-widers, just add 2-stud wide bricks down the middle. As with wagons, I think steam-age (...) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Model Railroader Magazine
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(...) <snipped> (...) I have to agree. I've been too cheap to subscribe, but I'v been buying back issues for $.50 to a buck each at the local train shop. Also try train swap meets. Mat (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: A lil' Mountain with10 Tunnel Portals
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"Larry Pieniazek" <larry.(mylastname)@...e.DOT.com> wrote in message news:IBCp8t.3Co@lugnet.com... (...) Hmm, I'm calling BS here. There is a river in Colorado with so much of a certain kind of mineral content in it that the water is indeed blue. (...) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug)
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(...) It's big, it's cool, and there's lots to like. The roadway and parking lot, for example are really neat. Always glad to see people building mountains. Spotlighted! I have a couple of bones to pick though... Water isn't blue. I think it's much (...) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug)
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(...) I'm sure my wife can empathise with that! Our dining table is covered with Lego. I was building 48x48 modules on the table but fitting them together takes up the whole table! It is better to have a large flat surface for building on the big (...) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug, FTX)
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Hi All, I am so excited about Model Railroader Magazine that I had to post this!(1) I know it sound a bit corny but the amount of high quality color photos of both trains and scenes has really increased in the last year. I find myself constantly (...) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I agree awesome work, highlighted for sure. My biggest problem with large scluptured modules is not where to store them but having the room to build them. My LEGO room isn't big enough for me to keep a few modules setup over a long period of (...) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug, FTX)
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Hi Brian, Awesome, awesome! Great job on this, the use of bridges and retaining walls, etc... I love how we (L-gaugers) are getting more and more sophisticated about our layouts. Of course we all know that GMLTC has been sculpting layouts for ever (...) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug, FTX)
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(...) I really like the multiple levels. I think train displays have continuously become larger and larger on two dimensions, but adding height (apart from really tall buildings) is something that we should all aim for. Having built mountains and (...) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug)
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Some simple model railraoding techniques might offer some depth. Perhaps a blue gradient staring at about 12" above the table top, to about 36" above the table (depending how high the tallest buildings are). Since its already light blue, get some (...) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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Here's a sneak peek at the mountain module I'm making for IndyLUG/Central Indiana LTC's display at this years Children's & Parents Expo Feb 19,20 & 21 at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. There are three train loops and the lower two can run (...) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug) !!
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Updates to the layout. Painting was nearly wrapped up this weekend and by Tuesday evening I was asked to start getting my old Lego sets out of the closest. (URL) not completely happy with the configuration. Base plates and track are fighting for (...) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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I have read many messages regarding that LEGO trains should be build 6 wide or 8 wide. We all know LEGO choose to create their trains 6 wide. 8 wide we have to design ourselves. But browsing through old LEGO ideabooks I found this picture of what I (...) (20 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | New Parts Drawings - Plates, Slope, Track Pieces
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I wish TLC would make these parts. Seeing earlier discussions I think I'm not alone! I've attempted 3rd angle projection drawings, showing top, side and underside, despite not having a drawing package. Drawing these parts in Paint is eyestrain city! (...) (20 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.parts.custom, lugnet.trains, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX) !!
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| | Re: To the owner of the Train à Grande Vitesse...
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(...) Thanks for the info. Do you have an email contact for him, or could you have him email me. I would like to talk TGV's with him. I have been working on a TGV myself for the last 7 years and would like to know more about his model. My TGV can be (...) (20 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) He is a FreeLUG (French LUG) member. His name is Xavier VIALLEFONT and you can see other picture in his FreeLUG's Gallery : (URL) regards, -- BERGAMO Jean-Louis <jlb@freelug.org> (URL) FREnch Enthusiast LEGO User Group Association de (...) (20 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | To the owner of the Train à Grande Vitesse...
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Your lights are on. ;) Hello all, I came across this excellent model of the French TGV and wanted to know who the owner is. His/Her? Brickshelf name is Vroum. (URL) for any help. Dave GPLR (20 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: ATSF Super Chief Project
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(...) Thanks Steve! I'd come in a heartbeat if I didn't already have a prior committment... MichLUG has a show that weekend so the consist will get some run time then. I may not get to SEE it though as I will be in NYC. (...) I think smack is not (...) (20 years ago, 1-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Red Caboose Mods
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(...) Oh, no complaints here, I love the inside. Just had to point out a dichotomy. I should know better, though... I once rode an Italian train with plush leather seats (aged but well-cared for), that also had careful patches applied around small (...) (20 years ago, 1-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | [Press Release] BayLTC at Cow Palace GATS
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For Immediate Release Contact: Russell Clark rclark@telis.org 408.605.5412 (cell) SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CA - The Bay Area LEGO Train Club (BayLTC) is pleased to announce that we will be displayingat the Great American Train Show in San Francisco. (...) (20 years ago, 1-Feb-05, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sac, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.org.us.baylug, lugnet.org.us.sacbb, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) Wood, coal and oil stoves were used in some crummies till the very end of their life... that was usually just before the dawn of personal computers but so what... I put a computer in my 1937 Super Chief (in the dome, even though the SC didn't (...) (20 years ago, 1-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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