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(...) Its funny that you mention articulation, as that was sort of the resion why I came up with this idea. Here is a picture that shows why. (URL) some of you know my TGV is a 10ft long articulated train. I wanted to make the cars for my TGV longer (...) (20 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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Here's a picture of my snotifall: (URL) sure there's more pictures out there somewhere. I haven't managed to post any myself. The basic construction is a backing of blue plates, with smaller blue plates staggered around to increase texture, and then (...) (20 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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(...) I find with building long wagons in 8mm:1ft scale (8+ wide British or 10+ wide American) that the 6-wide baseplates don't allow a bogie plate to turn sufficiently inside the underneath of the baseplate. Therefore I've used 2x2 plates with a (...) (20 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I think this is certainly an interesting idea, but I don't follow this specific point. I think that although the current bases have their limits, they're easy enough to work around as far as lengths go. I think a good articulation is more (...) (20 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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Hello all I have this idea for a what if part. Its a 6x12 train base plate. I think it would have some advantages over the standard 6x24 and 6x28 base plates. First off, it would alow people to make longer trains by not limiting you to the current (...) (20 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) (2 URLs) (...) That would be Jason Allemann who made the O-Train, part of Ottawa's transit system. I would keep an eye on his website in hopes that he adds a page for the train. (hint hint Jason) :-) (URL) Tim Strutt (20 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) I wish I had you patience to sit down a find this stuff. Thanks for the links. I will definitely be ""barrowing"" a few ideas from them. Thanks again, OnDrew (20 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) ahh yes how could i forget the mountain of brick in which you call your mountain. thanks for showing me. i love your use of really old blue[1] and new blue together. it really adds something to it. looks awsome thanks for sharing. ondrew (...) (20 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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Ondrew, Here's a couple pics of my latest mountain waterfall: (URL) Darrow ----- Original Message ----- From: "ondrew hartigan" <roj2323@yahoo.com> To: <lugnet.town@lugnet.com>; <lugnet.trains@lugnet.com> Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 7:51 PM (...) (20 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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(...) (URL) One by me, years ago.> (URL) Steve Ringe for a GATS event in Jan 2004> For more of that one, poke around in galleries from (URL) that event>. Here is (URL) another> by Larry Pieniazek. He announced that (URL). (URL) Another> by Thomas (...) (20 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Hey all, Well I searched Brickshelf but because most show photos are not labeled I couldn't find much. Anyway what I’m looking for is ideas/ pictures of water falls. The water fall for my new layout I’m building is only going to be about 5 bricks (...) (20 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(2 URLs) This was our second chance to work with the (URL) COSI Toledo museum>. They again had us display at the same time as (URL) COLTC>, who are a lot of fun to hang out with. The display was modest compared to some of our displays at 10ft by (...) (20 years ago, 6-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.events, FTX) !
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"Tom Dickson" <legnet@bombcar.com> wrote in message news:ICxC7C.ovp@lugnet.com... (...) I found them by chance in 8644 Lego Racers / tiny Turbos / Street Maniac, each set has two in yellow, took 6 sets, now have more fenders than i know what to do (...) (20 years ago, 6-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Set #8644 has two in yellow. Nice switcher! JohnG, GMLTC (20 years ago, 6-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Where did you get yellow ones? Peeron only describes Red and White. (20 years ago, 6-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yeah, some dk blue would be very nice. ROSCO (20 years ago, 6-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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G'Day Just wanted to post the start of a quick little model using the 'new' 1x3x1 curved top brick. (URL) wait until these are available in other colours to build some nice passenger cars. Cheers Oliver Play Well! (20 years ago, 6-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hi James, thanks for sharing your latest design here! I agree with you, that Larry built the so far best trucks and that Benn's dark grey windscreens might be the so far best solution for the dome. At least in kids hands that design will be (...) (20 years ago, 5-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(URL) LLL, we had a nice event this week, building a signal gantry together with 1000+ people from the German Railway Company (Deutsche Bahn). They had a works meeting in Frankfurt this Thursday and were invited to help building the model. Pictures: (...) (20 years ago, 5-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.events, FTX) !
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(URL) I'm not stealing thunder from legotrains, (or way behind the curve and this got announced long long ago) but WOW that's cool... Add a few gantry cranes and you're really rocking! (20 years ago, 5-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.boats) !
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(...) It has caused me a lot of problems, as the friction increase in my experience has been a lot more than "slight"... problems including bogie pins wearing out, shearing off, and in general leaving a lot more plastic dust around, as well as (...) (20 years ago, 5-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) The other way to strengthen it is to add another 2x4 technic plate above that one, at 90 degrees. It does increase the friction slightly on the bogie pin, but that's never caused me any problems to date. ROSCO (20 years ago, 5-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Hey James I just looked at your dome car and its a really nice. I still like the first one you made. Although this one did give me an idea on new dome. I took the dome off of your car and made a new one. (deep link) (URL) used the 2x2 round (...) (20 years ago, 5-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Nice work. I am glad that my truck design stood you in good stead and that you were able to suss it out from the pics I posted. That's a nice circle, you posted a new idea, I cribbed from it and you cribbed back! How it is supposed to work. (...) (20 years ago, 5-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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It's another dome car. Another try. I'm not completely satisfied with this design, but here is a try at a non-curved-window (URL) Pullman-Standard dome with full instructions>. Sorry the instructions aren't formatted well-- just a core dump from (...) (20 years ago, 5-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Who is the owner of the Red Tram in the second pic? And are there more detailed pictures of it. I couldnt find any really clear pics from the show. Thanks Dave www.GPLR.org (20 years ago, 4-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Having done a few experiments with real track, I used Excel to tell me whether particular combinations of track pieces would line up. Since the spreadsheet can do it, I used accurate figures for the track geometry. I then made tables of each (...) (20 years ago, 4-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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Really like the snow. *bookmarks gallery for later idea pinching* Tim (20 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Great work guys. I'd never of thought to terraform in white, but it looks great. Thanks for sharing. Mat (20 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) The link I sent is the program I used to work out the diagonal and other layout designs. I have not used the one LAR recommended but will try it out now. As far as other programs I could not say, but you can all ways search Lugnet's newgroups (...) (20 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Both seem to work only on Windows though. Pity it wasn't written in REALbasic; then I could just bug the author to click the "Mac OS" and "Linux" checkboxes. :) Does anyone happen to know of anything available for the Mac? Thanks, - Joe P.S. (...) (20 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Dear Thomas, I am quite sure that has to be a wheel from the "FALLER Hit Train", which has been quite popular in the past.... I own a handful of such wheels in black but have never used them, since they are too similar to real LEGO wheels. So (...) (20 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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I found this one wheel among my LEGO, some of it is quite old. The one on the left is the original large train wheel. What is the one on the right? Is it LEGO? (URL) Best regards Thomas (20 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) now. If you're a long time user, it works fine, although it's not extensible. New users would be well advised to look into TrackDraw instead... way more features, extensible menus, and the format is XML rather than obscure opaque object dumps (...) (20 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I'm pretty sure that the panels Pascal put both sides of the bogies are just to make the trucks look good in 8-studs size. (URL) there are no skirts or specific structure in the real engine. In my previous post, I wrote : "The motor is the 12V (...) (20 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I know alot of you have asked for the MlCad file for my 6-Wide tank car. So I played around with MlCad and whipped something up. I am still a bit of a novice when it comes to MlCad so bare with me if something isnt clear. Each section of the (...) (20 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Amazing stuff guys! A show on a canal takes the cake, especially with a cool Bombardier O-Train model too! And of course, the great BeaverTails shop! Calum (20 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) [snip] (...) Hey! Cool engine. I am intrigued by the trucks (bogies). Are those skirts around the trucks or are they some other kind of stucture? Thanks for sharing, Chris (20 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) There is something very wrong about a train display outdoors in winter in Canada! :-) Seriously, the snow effect is wonderful-- I totally buy it! Having it all out of doors is icicles on the cake;-) Great show, guys! JOHN (20 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) YAY ParLUGment!!! Way to pull out the stops and put on awesome display. The "snow" looks wonderful, and YAY!!! to you all for braving the elements. Pulling off an outdoor display I am sure is no easy feat, but anyone can do it with style, and (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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