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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)
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| | Re: Questions from a trains idiot
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(...) 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)
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| | Re: Questions from a trains idiot
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(...) 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)
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| | Re: Questions from a trains idiot
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(...) 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)
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| | Re: Questions from a trains idiot
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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)
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