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I've been toying with a design of Siemens VT-642 DMU in the San Diego Coaster color scheme. This train set is very similar to the Bombardier/Talent BR643 DMU (URL) that Jason Allemann did. In fact I'll be barrowing his shared motor bogie ideas. The (...) (19 years ago, 27-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Useful Track and Electrical Data
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Regular browsers of Brickshelf might have noticed that I added a new track plans section to my gallery: (URL) the 9V folder (URL) there are useful modules such as Curves (URL) and Double Bends (URL) , conforming to various minimum radii depending on (...) (19 years ago, 25-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.cad, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: TD custom registry
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X-posted to .town (...) Hi, Track Designer is well known and still a very popular software to design layouts, mainly amongst LEGO train fans. The growing interest in the french AFOL community led us to translate in french the help documentation (...) (19 years ago, 27-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: SpeedRail TGV Thalys
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(...) Very neat solution. If I built for real I might use it too since I can imagine it must be nightmare lining up the wheels otherwise. Tim (19 years ago, 27-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: SpeedRail TGV Thalys
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(...) Yes I have seen that train and the close-coupling, its a great MOC. I too started with using a rubber band CC inside my train. But after several times of taking apart my train just to place it on the track, I found a more simple solution. (...) (19 years ago, 27-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: TD custom registry
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(...) Thanks very much for doing this guys. This helps me keep up with John Barnes's modified points and straights when documenting our train show layouts! Ed (19 years ago, 27-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Undergrand part 3: Tokyo 7000 series
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Hi all, Here is my third major underground, the Tokyo Metro (or Subway as it's sometimes called). I modelled a (URL) series 7000> set because I liked the asymmetric face. As with the NY Subway set, this should be IR buildable with only minor (...) (19 years ago, 27-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: CABR buildings and your opinions
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--SNIP-- (...) You could try five-wide cars. If you use the wider wheel plate (part 6157) and regular small size wheels they come out at almost exactly five wide. I find that odd number also let you easily do things like 'angle' the car in to a (...) (19 years ago, 27-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | TD custom registry
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Hi, Track Designer is well known and still a very popular software to design layouts, mainly amongst LEGO train fans. The growing interest in the french AFOL community led us to translate in french the help documentation ((URL) here>). (...) (19 years ago, 27-Jan-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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| | GPLR mall display
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Hi All, GPLR has secured an empty store at a newly remodeled local mall. It is a corner store with ~ 70' of window, which makes it great as a giant display case! We only set up a train layout the last time we did this a few years ago. This time we (...) (19 years ago, 27-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains)
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