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(...) Thank you Tim! You're right, the Manchester Metrolink has the same basics of the Turin version. Use it as base and, when you will have done it, send me a couple of pictures! Thanks! Luca (18 years ago, 29-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: LDD Signal Box for Save 9V Trains Contest (and John Neal)
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(...) Tasty, Jason:-d Since my post (almost 4 years ago???) when I deeply coveted your dark gray low corner slopes, I made it a mission to acquire some of my own. And I have, although I have discovered that the 1x2 tri-slope apex brick doesn't come (...) (18 years ago, 29-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Well it isn't Australian, but we always seem to commandeer all the good stuff from NZ and call it ours. Widely believed to be the first 4-8-2s ever built, these were built for use on the north island of New Zealand in the early 1900s. (URL) Enjoy! (...) (18 years ago, 29-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.nz, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | Re: 7-Wide BNSF & TTX Intermodal Train & Crane
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(...) A gallery of Steve Ringe's train work can be seen here: (URL) Steve is a former 8-wide builder that recently converted most of his stock to 6-wide. IMO very little was lost in the translation. Spencer (18 years ago, 29-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: 7-Wide BNSF & TTX Intermodal Train & Crane
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(...) I'm ignoring the IR bulge, as well. But, here is another try at it: (URL) fence method probably has interference with the fact that a stud height would interfer-- it doesn't in CAD, but we remember that studs are greater than 1/2 plate thick, (...) (18 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 7-Wide BNSF & TTX Intermodal Train & Crane
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A way to overcome the problem of the offset studs on top of the brackets would be placing a (URL) Slope 65 2 x 2 x 2 Smooth without Bottom Tube> over each of them (vertical face outwards) With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen. (18 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: 7-Wide BNSF & TTX Intermodal Train & Crane
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(...) Another side topic I have not noticed to be mentioned here in Lugnet is the following: (URL) These new wheels (as shown by Heiner Berg from his 7898 set) have no bore hole reaching through the wheel, but they have a plastic tip which will be (...) (18 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: 7-Wide BNSF & TTX Intermodal Train & Crane
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PS. And we're both ignoring the IR battery box in the centre which also has to be worked around. (18 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hi David, I've actually tried something similar to that before but didn't like the studs. The other problem with it is that it may not work since real studs are a little taller than half a plate. The best I've come up with so far is something (...) (18 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 7-Wide BNSF & TTX Intermodal Train & Crane
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(...) Tim, Here is an idea I just put together. It uses many of the 1x2-2x2 Brackets. (URL) guess the only downside is that you have studs running the length of the train. Then again it does give it a nice textured look. (URL) (18 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: 7-Wide BNSF & TTX Intermodal Train & Crane
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--SNIP-- (...) I think there's more to worry about than the weight. I've not been able to figure out any decent way of getting a seven wide shell over the six wide baseplate that IR requires. I've tried covering it with snotted panels, tiles and (...) (18 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | LDD to LDRAW Conversion Fixes
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I've been tinkering with the "ldraw.xml" file in LEGO Digital Designer (LDD), and have come up with the following list of fixes for good LDD/LDRAW conversion. In case you hadn't already discovered, if you append ".ldr" to the end of the file name (...) (18 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.cad.ldd, lugnet.lego, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.build) !!
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| | Re: 7-Wide BNSF & TTX Intermodal Train & Crane
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(...) Great. These answers, along with the info Ben provided, are the answers I was hoping for. You've really given my the urge to get some 7-wide equipment of my own. Of course wanting it and being able to build it are two different things :-) If (...) (18 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | LDD Signal Box for Save 9V Trains Contest (and John Neal)
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Here's an LDD model of a British railway signal box. (URL) Signal Box>>(URL) The roof layout comes from one at Oakham, theough the steps are turned around here and the door set back to allow for a wider view from the windows. The roof lifts off to (...) (18 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | Announcing the new LUGNET Link List
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Hi All, I would like to announce the new LUGNET Link List: (URL) former Link List, Michael Dorneichs great "Everything LEGO Link Page", is located here now: (URL) this list was last updated more than 3 years ago and it has too many broken links to (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jun-06, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org, lugnet.trains.org) !!
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| | Come build at LEGOLAND on the Fourth of July
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To celebrate the Fourth of July: Red, White, and Boom! event at (URL) LEGOLAND California>, all park guests are invited to help (URL) SCLTC> build the world's largest US Flag made entirely from LEGO bricks. Construction gets underway at 10:00. (URL) (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jun-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.legoland.california, FTX) !
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| | Damsel: "I'm in distress? What distress?"
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Hello all, I've build a vignette which I'm able to wear as a badge during events. It combines two of the three themes that kind of signify me within the LEGO community: trains and the Clikits trademark girls. (URL) Attached at the back is a black (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.clikits, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: 7-Wide BNSF & TTX Intermodal Train & Crane
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(...) Dear Paul, 7-wide trains are not really uncommon. Lately the focus here in Lugnet may have been on 6-wides again (due to the factory sets), but 7-wides are just the perfect compromise between detailing and reliable operational behaviour. (And (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Another tram / light rail from Turin!
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(...) [...] (...) [...] (...) Luca, Great tram. I can't think of anything else to say, but I had to say that. Chris (18 years ago, 27-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 7-Wide BNSF & TTX Intermodal Train & Crane
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J. Spencer Rezkalla wrote: Spencer, Great models all around. Thanks for sharing them. [...] (...) [...] (...) I chuckled when I read this comment because the other night I was running my trains and I trough a switch by accident while a boxcar was (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains)
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