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(...) Sorry to you both I didn't know what was happening and I thought it sounded rather "course" obviously stuck my foot in it please delete last posting Cheers To All Peter (19 years ago, 17-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | Re: NR-75 - The Ghan (The way it should have been done ;-) )
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(...) Hi Peter, Thanks for the defense but don't worry about the heading. It was a joke between Samarth and myself. I was actually the other end of the 24hr build challenge and we've been having a mini scale war off Lugnet for a while. Of course the (...) (19 years ago, 17-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | Re: NR-75 - The Ghan (The way it should have been done ;-) )
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--SNIP-- (...) To be fair to Swami, that was more my fault than his. I was rushing his renders and didn't have time to learn Lsynth to add the flextube. Thanks too for the compliments but my version took a lot longer than 24hrs to design and was (...) (19 years ago, 17-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | Re: NR-75 - The Ghan (The way it should have been done ;-) )
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(...) Hi me Peter again I forgot to add in my last post also that I find the "Post Heading" very offensive "NR-75 The Ghan (The way it should have been done)" Now I know you smiled at the end of it but I feel that Tim Gould posted the original Ghan (...) (19 years ago, 17-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) Hi All I have to put my 20 cents worth in here as I have built the 6 wide NR 75 with many thanks to Tim for his help with prototyping issues and use of his instructions. 8 wide looks awfull but that is only my opinion far too out of scale no (...) (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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This is a great model. I may build it if I can find the parts: I have a suggestion. Put your name in the file as the author. If I build this I would want to be able to tell someone who designed the engine. I would probably forget whose model it is (...) (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Palisade Villa GBC (the start of one, anyways...)
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So I was trying to incorporate my first favourite thing to do with LEGO bricks--working with RCX's and building robots--and my second favourite thing to do with my LEGO collection--building and operating a train layout. I've been trying for a while (...) (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Looks quite good, although it's always hard to judge a model purely on a POVRAY/LDRAW picture (ie get off your lazy *&^ and start building ;) ) About height, the model indeed looks a bit "stretched" although I'm not familiar with the original. (...) (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) If you said 6-wide represents an 8ft wide coach body, a minifig is 41mm / 48mm x 8ft = 6'10" tall and 16mm / 48mm x 8ft = 2'8" wide at the waist (standard minifig with hair but no rucksack). If 6-wide represents a 10ft wide body for American (...) (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Nice work Swami and better late than never :P. I don't know what happened to the logo but something went wrong... As for minifigs, everyone knows they are tall and broad, not short. That's why trains should be six-wide. Sheesh!!! Tim (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Thank you Community Member Richie Dulin for spotlighting my post! Your warm services to the embracing community are much appreciated, as always. (...) Alas, CM Richie my greatest apologies to you if you find the renders below community (...) (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) Excellent work! Spotlighted. Thanks for sharing. The Ghan logos do seem to have lost something in the rendering - have you built in real life? Cheers Richie Dulin (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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As most of you know, it was my end of the 24 Hour Build Challenge deal to build a Ghan in 8 wide. So here it is: (URL) Gallery after mod: (URL) (Ignore the Playboy bunny on the side. It's a trick of the light and Tim R0x0r for teh renderz.) I'm (...) (19 years ago, 15-Oct-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX) !
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| | Pictures of Trial of TCLTC Sleeper Scheme with Wider Track Bed
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(...) A couple of pictures of my evaluation of a wider TCLTC-style scheme, prior to my experiments with sleeper colours and mosaic shading: (URL) used this piece to test stuff like clearances for BBB wheeled locos, feasibility of a wider track bed, (...) (19 years ago, 15-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: TCLTC Sleepers with Wide Mosaic Track Bed
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(...) I've fed these ideas into my melting pot of track bed plans. I'm building 12-14 wide trackbeds for a new modular scenic layout. I began with the packs of grey and dark grey plates, one pack doing either one straight plus one curve or one (...) (19 years ago, 14-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: ILTCO 2006-2007 Officer Elections
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(...) I'd like to take this bit o' time to thanks you guys for doing a fantastic job in representing our hobby. I know it takes considerable effort and time, and, since it's pretty much volunteer, I thought I'd tell you how much I appreciate it! (...) (19 years ago, 14-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains.org)
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Here are the ILTCO 2006-2007 Officer Election results: - Steve Barile - President - Mike Walsh - Senior Officer - James Trobaugh, Robin Werner and Larry Pieniazek - Officer This concludes the "ILTCO Officer Election for 2006-2007 term" process. (...) (19 years ago, 14-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: Help needed on German trains
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(...) Dear all, Thank you everyone who has responded. I've begun building a 425 series and hope to have some pictures of it for you soon. I got so much information that I have begin adding to the German trains section of Brickwiki (...) (19 years ago, 14-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) EMU = Triebzug mit Elektromotor EMUs = Triebzüge mit Elektromotor (For DMU replace Elektro with Diesel) (...) Nahverkehrszüge or Regionalzüge (Also words like Nahverkehr, Regionalverkehr and Regionalbahn can help you finding more in German on (...) (19 years ago, 14-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Hi Tim, (...) the german word for the kind of car used in this train is "Doppelstockwagen". So (URL) find you a few more pictures. Cheers Jürgen "who likes to sit on the upper deck when going home for the weekend" (19 years ago, 13-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Oh! Thank you. Really interesting. I hope I remember enough German pronounciation to do justice to them ;) I'll also add this link to BrickWiki's train terms and German trains articles. Tim (19 years ago, 13-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thanks Didier, I think it might be a 425. Perhaps someone could confirm this? Tim (19 years ago, 13-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Also, this site is an invaluable reference: (URL) I'm a native German speaker, and I have fond memories of my Dad and I building a little Marklin train layout. The German words are often hilarious in their pronunciation and number of syllables, and (...) (19 years ago, 13-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Indeed, that's one of the best places to start your search. I believe it's belongs to the 423, 424, 425 and 426 series, you find links to their picture galleries on this page (most have a level of subdirectories beneath them): (URL) 445 series (...) (19 years ago, 13-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Commuter trains tend to be referred to as S-Bahn (...) As Didier has mentioned, the (URL) European Railway Server> is probably the best place to look, especially as a starting point to find out what to search for. (...) I think it is a (URL) (...) (19 years ago, 13-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Have you not been able to find what you are searching on the (URL) Railfaneurope website> (eventhough not german website) ? (...) Didier (19 years ago, 13-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Dear German speakers, I recently visited Koeln and saw some extrmely interesting EMUs there operating as commuter trains for the service. Unfortunately my train finding skills aren't so good and are even worse when I don't know the correct words in (...) (19 years ago, 13-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.de, FTX)
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| | set 4551 - "Crocodile Engine" alternate model instructions
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Hello all, My copy of the instruction booklet for set #4551 - "Crocodile Engine" contains five extra pages with full building instructions for one of the alternate models shown (image top left) on the box backside. I noticed that all instruction (...) (19 years ago, 13-Oct-05, to lugnet.db.scans, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: ALCo Roadswitcher
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(...) I initially planned on abandoning building with LEGO® ,due in part to their announcement of the new colors. (this was two years ago) Also, the demands of the railroad service took some getting used to. While browsing the bedroom closet one (...) (19 years ago, 12-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: ALCo Roadswitcher
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(...) Harvey, the ALCO looks great, nice and clean, and nocomplicated construction. Who needs instructions. I think I'll try one in WP Orange, grey and black. So why did you wait for bley? Was it a better match for the prototype? Mat (19 years ago, 12-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Michiana-LTC to display at the SJVRR Swap Meet - Sunday, October 16
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To all, The Michiana LEGO Train Club is pleased to display at the upcoming SJVRR Swap Meet on Sunday, October 16. Event Details: 10:00AM - 3:00PM CST Address: Elks lodge 3535 East McKinley Avenue South Bend, Indiana 46615 Admission: Individual $4 (...) (19 years ago, 12-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.michiana-lug, lugnet.loc.us.in, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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Greetings, After yet another CSX-induced absence from the LEGO® scene, I've dusted off my beloved ALCo locomotive and decided to upgrade it using the new 'bley' elements, as well as reshape the roof by using the rounded bricks found in the #8654 (...) (19 years ago, 11-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Indian EMU
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(...) I didn't know they existed :) (19 years ago, 10-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Indian EMU
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(...) It's a 1x4 vertical curve ((URL) part 6191>). I actually wanted to use that technique in my (URL) Russian EMU> but it didn't look right so I was happy to get to use it on this. Tim (19 years ago, 10-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Sorry to respond to my own post. Due to having enough feedback suggesting that a seven-wide version of this train would be much, much better, I went back and redesigned it. Here is the new wider version (2 URLs) front car> (URL) car> (URL) front (...) (19 years ago, 10-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Very nice Tim. How did you do the corner of the roof at the front? It looks like the curve piece and the 2nd slope conflict. (19 years ago, 10-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Indian EMU
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(...) Sure, but you can't defy the laws of geometry, Captain! The shape of the loco is clearly a rectangle, so if you chose to limit yourself and create it 6 wide, then (as Lar pointed out) it needs to be a lot shorter. So short, in fact, that it (...) (19 years ago, 10-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Indian EMU
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(...) Since Samarth has outed himself elsewhere in the thread you know who it was with now. Basically Swami and I had been talking about building a train (this one for me and the Ghan in eight-wide for him) for a while so I suggested half-jokingly (...) (19 years ago, 10-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Indian EMU
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(...) If your other trains are eight-wide I'd say this should be a least nine-wide, possibly ten. (...) What I enjoy is trying to capture the look of something with the extra challenge imposed by limiting myself to six-wide (and typically built on a (...) (19 years ago, 10-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Indian EMU
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(...) Well, maybe precise was too exact a term:-) But I figure it like this: I assume a scale of 1:48 (which is "O" scale). O scale model railroad locos are 8 studs wide, but LEGO track gauge is wider than O scale track gauge. So in essence, LEGO (...) (19 years ago, 10-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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