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(...) Congrats. My earliest memories of model train layouts were the ones at the Ohio State Fair more than twenty years ago. I never dreamed there would one day be Lego trains on display there! Spencer (19 years ago, 5-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Train motors half price via S@H weekly special
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If LEGO does do an RC train, I suspect it would be made to go alongside the existing 9V train and be made as either a Duplo product or a Jack Stone/4+ type product. Such a product would compete with products like Fisher Price Geotrax (which, IIRC, (...) (19 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: The End of 9 Volt? (was: Re: Train motors half price via S@H weekly special)
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(...) I have also run 12 V at: - Oregon Convention Center Grand Re-opening - BrickFest PDX As to battery trains being serious... One of the most serious RR sub-groups is slowly going battery powered - Garden Railroading (I call them one of the most (...) (19 years ago, 5-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: COLTC Display at the Ohio State Fair in Columbus, Ohio
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(...) My favorite quote: "She said the club is a good jumping off point because the fair organizers are hoping to get the actual LEGO company involved with the fair next year." --Mike. (19 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: The End of 9 Volt? (was: Re: Train motors half price via S@H weekly special)
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(...) Frank Filz hosted a 12 volt layout within our (PNLTC) layout at Beaverton Mall in 2002. The PNLTC website ((URL)) is down at the moment, but when it comes back up, please check it out (Under Galleries, See "Beaverton Mall"). -jeremy (19 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Brand new defective train motors - Lego Consumerservice
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(...) Ludo- A few comments: 1. I have a lot newly acquired experience in servicing LEGO train motors since we switched SCLTC to DCC. Before DCC, when a motor went bad, we would only retire it from service. Now, we take perfectly good motors apart to (...) (19 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | TRAINS.COM writeup of 2005 NTS show in Cincinnati
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(URL) not be there foreever, dunno. Enjoy! (19 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains) !
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| | Re: The End of 9 Volt? (was: Re: Train motors half price via S@H weekly special)
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(...) This already happens -- monorail is a popular item in train displays, and monorail is definitely a legacy product. I haven't heard of any displays of 4.5V/12V setups, but I wouldn't be surprised by them. Steve (19 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: The End of 9 Volt? (was: Re: Train motors half price via S@H weekly special)
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(...) I don't normally like these speculative threads but I feel compelled to add a couple of comments here although I also have the nasty feeling it is already too late. Plastic rails and a battery in the train makes a lot of sense for a cost (...) (19 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: The End of 9 Volt? (was: Re: Train motors half price via S@H weekly special)
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(...) SNIP (...) SNIP (...) Okay, so there's no point in speculating but I will anyway since I've been interested in (and worried about) what this could mean since I first saw the coming of RC LEGO trains mentioned on the Eurobricks main page a (...) (19 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: COLTC Display at the Ohio State Fair in Columbus, Ohio
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for those of you that do not know John: (URL) He is the one that started the COLTC skyscraper thingie with his LeVeque tower about 2 years ago. I also know he did NOT say LEGOs, that's the acuracy of the press for ya! Last year the fair drew over 1 (...) (19 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.events, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX) !
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| | Re: The End of 9 Volt? (was: Re: Train motors half price via S@H weekly special)
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(...) well i have known about the "rc train" for about 2 months now and since there is allways some huge announcment typicly involving the train line logic tells me that we will get some sort of information at brickfest. even if it's nothing more (...) (19 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: COLTC Display at the Ohio State Fair in Columbus, Ohio
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(...) Here are some pictures of the display... (URL) John (19 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: The End of 9 Volt? (was: Re: Train motors half price via S@H weekly special)
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(...) It would be incredibly stupid for LEGO to discontinue the 9-volt line and replace it with something that is not an improvement. That in itself indicated to me that it is likely the course of action that they will take... I agree with John (...) (19 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Canadian Pacific ALCO FA
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(...) Here's my take on a (URL) Warbonnet FA>, a (URL) Warbonnet FB>, and the trucks, engine/gen, and tanks for them both... (URL) Mechanicals> I think CP maroon and grey is a REALLY sharp scheme so I dig that you gave it a go. But I did (URL) (...) (19 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: The End of 9 Volt? (was: Re: Train motors half price via S@H weekly special)
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(...) What makes you think that we will necessarily get any answers at BrickFest? Frankly, I wouldn't think that this is the kind of info TLG would want to provide F2F at a "Fest"-- too volatile. Besides, I was speaking hypothetically, which can (...) (19 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) [...] like todays playmobil trains or like Duplo trains are. [...] (...) Gee, I hope the current 9v system isn't being replaced by something incompatible... we'll have to ask at BrickFest. But if there really is an RC train system out there, (...) (19 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: The End of 9 Volt? (was: Re: Train motors half price via S@H weekly special)
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(...) before we all start suffering from the OMG syndrom. lets take a step back and realize brickfest is a week away. we will get all the answers we need there. just relax. ondrew (19 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) I heard that same rumor on this side of 'the pond'... I hope it doesn't come true, because every remaining stock of 9volt track would probably sell out within hours of any announcement. (19 years ago, 3-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | The End of 9 Volt? (was: Re: Train motors half price via S@H weekly special)
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(...) Hmmm. That is an interesting scenario. I'm just sitting here thinking what I would do in that event. I always sort of pitied the folks who still decided to run the old 12 volt trains. It just seemed so doomed; when stuff broke down, that was (...) (19 years ago, 3-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Train motors half price via S@H weekly special
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(...) Hi all! At the TSL event in Berlin there came up rumors the todays 9V train line would be shut down. And that there would come up a new train system with RC driven trains. I would guess, if that would come true, the trains would run on pure (...) (19 years ago, 3-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Brand new defective train motors - Lego Consumerservice
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I have had no problem at all getting replacement parts through consumer affairs. I actually had a train motor that I had dropped, breaking of the peg on top. I called consumer affairs and told them what happened, explaining that I dropped it, and (...) (19 years ago, 3-Aug-05, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.trains)
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| | Brand new defective train motors - Lego Consumerservice
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Hi all, I bought me in the past year 10 brand new train motors through Bricklink, because they are much cheaper then S@H. I do have now 2 bad motors among those 10. One is working but when running, gives a screaming noise to get cold chils in your (...) (19 years ago, 3-Aug-05, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: COLTC Display at the Ohio State Fair in Columbus, Ohio
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Thanks for the heads up! Jeff (19 years ago, 3-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Canadian Pacific
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Hi It is not often that I post here on .trains but I certainly lurk around! However, I would like to reveal my attempt at the Canadian Pacific Alco FA-1, ca. 1969. There is a lot of artistic licence involved in the build and I am sure it could be a (...) (19 years ago, 3-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Train motors half price via S@H weekly special
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OK so I called again to get the skinny on the train motor "blowout"... As it turns out they simply renumbered the product, as Rafe referred to in his post, and in order to remove the old SKU from their system they had to sell thru them. She assured (...) (19 years ago, 3-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Why would S@H want to clear out the last of their train motors?????? JB (19 years ago, 3-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains)
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SOLD OUT! She said that they literally only had a few, so no one bought like 100 of them. SteveB (...) (19 years ago, 3-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Train motors half price via S@H weekly special
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For what it is worth, this week's weekly special at S@H has #5300, the 9V train motor, at $12.50 instead of the usual $25. The website says they are sold out, so maybe they are; I didn't call. Further adding to the uncertainty, the website says to (...) (19 years ago, 3-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | COLTC Display at the Ohio State Fair in Columbus, Ohio
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Hello, COLTC is currently displaying at the Ohio State Fair in Columbus, Ohio. The Fair runs from August 3rd thru August 14th and is open 9am to 9pm most days. We are in the DiSalle Arts & Crafts Building. Our display consists of a 12.5 x 20ft multi (...) (19 years ago, 3-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Street Signs
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(...) If you can get them on discount, Spidermans First Chase ((URL) set has some good NY style signs. Otherwise I suggest trawling through train show pictures on Brickshelf and club sites. There are loads of different signs out there and you're (...) (19 years ago, 3-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: NR 75 - The Ghan
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(...) Hello , If you were interested in building carriages for the Ghan, I know were you can get some decals ! Check out this site :- www.users.bigpond.com/bgbho Heres a link, if that does not work (URL) go to passinger cars under decals . (URL) (...) (19 years ago, 3-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Street Signs
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I have also posted this on .town and have recieved no replys, so, I'll try here: We are expanding our town and looking forward to 'streets'. Any suggestions for making corner street name signs and posts. We have 'stop lights', but want to customize (...) (19 years ago, 2-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: And now for something completely different....
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Hi Tim --SNIP-- (...) --SNIP Nice and sleek (and thin). (...) Thanks for the advice. (...) That's excellent work. I really like the way you've varied the grill styles and used the 10133 Cowcatchers. Nice photography too! Tim G (19 years ago, 2-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: NR 75 - The Ghan
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(...) Hi Peter, I was hoping someone would find it useful enought to build (you will notice that the MPD is all set out for LPUB). I had noticed a distinct lack of Aus rolling stock on layouts and thought it was a perfect one to start with. See my (...) (19 years ago, 2-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: NR 75 - The Ghan
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(...) Tim Great job I didn't know you were into trains Mate could we use the instructions to build one for BLTG displays coming up soon on the Gold Coast and in Ipswich? All credits will of course go to you. It would be a fantastic addition to our (...) (19 years ago, 2-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: NR 75 - The Ghan
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(...) Thanks. The rolling stock is really easy. I've got some half designed but all you have to do is replace a strip of grey in the Santa Fe carriages with a strip of orange. A little fiddle here and there and you've got a decent Ghan carriage. (...) (19 years ago, 2-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: NR 75 - The Ghan
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Timothy Gould wrote: Very nice work, Tim! Maybe I will try to build this for our next M>ltc layout! But then I'd have to come up with rolling stock too... (...) It is usually headed by NR74 - the NR class are GE powered, and (...) (19 years ago, 1-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | NR 75 - The Ghan
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Dear all, Just finished off a project I've been working on for a while. Was going to wait until I finished the instructions but time just slipped away. So, I present here, NR 75 - The Ghan This train, for those who don't know, runs on the newest (...) (19 years ago, 1-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | Re: kadee coupler questioner
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(...) My guess is that we'll get detail, they would probably just use the O-scale knuckle parts. Other detail will include the "brake hose" which is the pin that is moved by the uncoupling magnet. Frank (19 years ago, 1-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains)
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