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  What´s so special about trains?
 
Why does so many people love trains? Is it because you can build scale-models of real trains? Because they move? Because you like model railroads? Because it´s lego? Because it gives your town a nice addition? --Tobias (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
 
  Re: Questions from a trains idiot
 
(...) Boy is it so nice that 3225 does not come with track or regulator (I don't know about others, but I have a lot more curved track than I need). I may be reaching the point where I have more train motors than I need, but so far I'm not overly (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
 
  Re: Questions from a trains idiot
 
(...) Larry! some of us don't have enough space to have trains of 15 american cars...besides which, it would take 5 motors to get it up the grade...it takes 3 under 9 cars now... (...) _or_ you can use the 2x2 plate turntables. Not as good a design, (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
 
  Re: Questions from a trains idiot
 
(...) Sets 4565 and 4560 (german only) do not come with a controller. However, if you are willing to trade some lego, I have 6 availabe (all hardly used, I only used them for the VicLUG picnic this summer). I also have curved track availabe to get (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
 
  Re: Questions from a trains idiot
 
Larry Pieniazek wrote: <snip good advice> (...) Not necessarily. If you want to model "Eurotrash", as Lar so eloquently puts it, then use the buffers and bogie plates. I model US style locos and cars and so I don't use the buffers. Instead I use (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
 
  Re: Hiawatha
 
(...) And this coming from a guy who I constantly needle because he wants to build 8 wide trains... -blush- And the best part? Now that I have pictures of the locomotive, I can actually rebuild it after its trip to the floor! I sat with all the (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
 
  Re: Questions from a trains idiot
 
(...) Yes. (...) It varies. 3225 comes without track or a regulator. 4565 comes without a regulator but with track. 4559 comes with both. 4561 comes with both. There is a version (europe only, I think) of 4561, numbered 4560, that comes without a (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
 
  Re: Questions from a trains idiot
 
(...) Hi! I only have the 12V Trains, but I'm sure there are many people out there to correct me where I go wrong or fill in the gaps :-) (...) The train sets come with a speed regulator and will run out of the box. However I heard a rumour that (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
 
  Questions from a trains idiot
 
Hey Y'all: I plan on buying one of the fine train sets currently available from Shop@Home and was wondering about a few things. I assume the sets that come with track are complete and will run with the given accessories. I gather that rather than an (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
 
  Re: 4558 - wishful thinking?
 
(...) Well.... We are using orange, red, and black/gray for the colors as seen here: (URL) you are looking at is my black roofed 8 wide diner, and 2 gray-roofed 6 wide passenger cars. The Hiawatha had many color iterations; some reproducible, and (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)


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