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(...) That sounds almost as tacky as calling him a 'railroad' engine. As I said, I've never been subjected to that in years of books, TV and even LPs of Johnny Morris reading recordings of the books. I have heard the TV series theme tune played over (...) (19 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, FTX)
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(...) Hey, good call. And the Hebrew first name, come to think of it. Who the heck am I, anyway? Dave! (19 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo)
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(...) Hey, wait a minute. (URL) These> are the lyrics from all of the episodes that I've seen, but I've only been watching for the last few months. A few observations: 1 It's always the episode in which someone has to cross the scary, rickety (...) (19 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, FTX)
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(...) And you have the cheek to call yourself "British"??? (URL) Song lyrics here> I suppose you've never heard of "Monty Python", either? ;-) JOHN (19 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, FTX)
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(...) Oh yes, he does. In Sweden the toy manufacture company BRIO has had a license to produce him and all of his friends as wooden toys for their wooden railway system (about 5-wide, i would guess), and the TV show has been shown, and is available (...) (19 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo)
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(...) Same here. (...) FWIW the one on Cartoon Network here is also there as a Hindi-dubbed version. Legoswami (19 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo)
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(...) Says the guy with a German surname... ;) (...) There's a theme song? In the UK there's a tune, but no song. But does Thomas the Tank Engine feature much in non-English-speaking countries? Jason Railton (19 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo)
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(...) "them" are Jason Allemann (URL) and Erik Amzallag (URL) Regards, Didier Enjary (19 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
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(...) That's okay--from your name I suspected that you were from the Continent, but I confess that this really baffles me. Judging from the theme song and the names in the credits, Thomas originates in the UK, which I believe *is* part of Europe, (...) (19 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo)
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(...) Samarth- The motorcycle was designed and built by Chris Brill of SCLTC. You can reach him via email at chris@scltc.org. -Ted (19 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
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(...) Tim- First, take 2 Vallium and come back in an hour... Seriously, thanks for the comments. SCLTC is of course a club. As you note, we have 15 members. Of them, 13 contributed to this layout. The contributions ranged from modifying a few (...) (19 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
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I didn't see an announcement so... thought I'd share... The U.S. Shipping date for the TXX Intermodal is only five weeks away... (URL) (19 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Well, one member in particular, my mom, Susan, worked tirelessly graveling practically every curve and switchtrack in the layout! (...) I'm glad you like the pictures. As the photographer, I thank you =). I try to take 'all LEGO' shots in (...) (19 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
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(...) I was told that Europe won't get Thomas at all. (I meant _we_ Europeans). I should wrote it more clearly. -- Jindroush www.kostky.org - For czech LEGO fans. (19 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo)
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(...) Dark Powers? Any relation to (URL) or (URL) Stephanie>? With whom do I have dark pacts? Only the (Dark) Shadow knows.... JOHN (19 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, FTX)
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(...) Well, I'm in Pennsylvania, if that makes any difference. I'm not too savvy with www.lego.com, so I don't know how to confirm availability. Elroy already mentioned that he's seen them in Vermont, so that's good news. Anyone else have any ideas? (...) (19 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo)
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In lugnet.announce, Ted Michon wrote: I normally don't check out layout pics, but this time I did. Does anyone know where I can find more pics of the chopper in the upper right corner of this pic?: (URL) (19 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc)
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This is one of those photo galleries that makes me depressed (wait!) but also spurs me on to do Lego stuff. I look at it and think, I could never do that, but of course its not just the work of one person and if I work as part of a team I CAN do it! (...) (19 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
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Very awesome work on the wheel setup, and making such a faithful representation of the tram! -Stefan- (19 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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(...) I've been using the bags of grey and dark grey plates, where one bag does either one straight plus one curve or one switch. This one is plain grey: (URL) This one is an experiment in adding tan 1x1s to change the colour of the track bed, (...) (19 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
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(...) The jury is out, of course, since this is the first time we have done ballasting. My feeling is that we will be able to reuse quite a bit even with big changes. The primary reason we used ballast this time is because we wanted a big meandering (...) (19 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
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(...) Interesting. How much rework would you have to do, with the switches and curves? MichLTC is looking at ballasting right now and it seems like a LOT of permeatations would have to be prepared. Or rework before an event. (...) Oh, I guess I (...) (19 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
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(...) Yes. We had and "event" in which members spent a day putting down ballast, but in the end Susan Michon did about 90% of the work (and has the dimpled thumbs to prove it). We use mosaic kits from LLCA and have been chastised for buying them out (...) (19 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
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(...) Very nice work. Is this the first show you all have done with ballasted track? Looks very good. With all of that ballasted, I suppose your track lines and yard are fairly fixed, no? I think I may "borrow" that cow design. I see that someone is (...) (19 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
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Thomas has posted the first 127 photos of the May 7-8 SCLTC show at Fullerton Railroad Days at (URL). Here's some samples. (4 URLs) If you missed the chance to see the show in person, good news! The entire show, plus more, will also be at the 2005 (...) (19 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.town, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Nominations for a trainset poll
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(...) Good question. If you'd asked me 20 years ago I would have told you about the shape of cab roofs, the way that the radiators flared, the pattern of fans on the roof and a few other things... but today? Maybe I'm old but I have a harder time (...) (19 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.trains)
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Thanks for the info, I'm afraid it was a case engaging fingers before google! On the subject of the two main loco manufacturers whats the main design features that help differentiate them? I was looking at photos and although I can see that (...) (19 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.trains)
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"Leonard Hoffman" <lahoffma@mailer.fsu.edu> wrote in message news:IGAoLy.Axq@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) five (...) An (...) ILTCO had Gallery ((URL) embedded into the web site. I simply saved the presentation as JPG files and then (...) (19 years ago, 10-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) Actually, that is great! It allows me to see the slides that I'm more interested in (the snot instructions, for instance) and doesn't have the five minute download. Is ILTCO.org already set up to do this, or did you have to code that in? An (...) (19 years ago, 10-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) I know for sure _we_ will not get them (so I can't help you). (...) If I'm not mistaken there should be renewed line in June including 2 new vehicles. But maybe _you_ won't get it? Jindroush (19 years ago, 10-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo)
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(...) That's w-a-n-t t-o b-e. And you call yourself a pedant. XFUT ot.fun. Legoswami (19 years ago, 10-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) My wife and I saw these here in Vermont at Toys R Us this weekend, so they are available in retail (at least in this small corner of the north-eastern U.S.). I still occasionally find a Bob The Builder (great, now I'll be singing *that* song (...) (19 years ago, 10-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, FTX)
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(...) What a sidekick wannabe you are. (19 years ago, 10-May-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) to be done RIGHT... all the attempts I've seen so far at that are clever, but have gaps)... (19 years ago, 10-May-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) So when's that encyclopedia of yours coming out? ;-) Legoswami (19 years ago, 10-May-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Duplo question: Are those Thomas Duplo sets available in retail yet, or are they direct-only? And is Bob the Builder still on the retail market? (...) I had a lampshade that, a few hours into the party, ended up as a hat. (...) Hey, I call 'em (...) (19 years ago, 10-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, FTX)
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(...) The following is from memory and should get you started. Someone will no doubt find something to nitpick!!! NS - Norfolk Southern... one of the "big four" class 1's remaining. Split Conrail with CSX, the other eastern big four. Rumoured to be (...) (19 years ago, 10-May-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) As I mentioned previously, I still yell "CHOO-CHOO!" when I see a train while driving around in my car. If that's not disturbing... (...) lol Reminds me of HP:POA last year-- I had that section of chorus "Something wicked this way comes!" (...) (19 years ago, 10-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, FTX)
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(...) Pick from here (URL) (19 years ago, 10-May-05, to lugnet.trains)
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