 | | Building the Christmas Train 2006: Set 101073 - brief report & pics
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I start with my conclusion: If you look for a very nice Christmas present, for yourself or for your kids: go buy this Chrismas Train!!! I could not resist to buy this nice set at the Brand Store in Oberhausen-Germany. I build it, and made some pics. (...) (18 years ago, 25-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Town and Train at NWBrickCon 2006
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NWBrickCon 2006 is fast approaching. The space for Town and Train in the Expo Hall will be large (16'x29') but is already filling up and I need to know what will be there. Contact me at the above (despamblocked) address to let me know what you will (...) (18 years ago, 25-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.events.nwbrickcon)
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| | Re: Swedish X2000 high speed train prototype - and it tilts!
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In lugnet.trains, Esben Kolind wrote: SNIP Woohoo! It has interiors this time! Great engineering once again. Thanks for sharing. Legoswami (18 years ago, 24-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Swedish X2000 high speed train prototype - and it tilts!
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Hey, A couple of years ago, I built the (URL) Tilt Train> and James Mathis came up with a (URL) great idea> on how to simplify the tilting mechanism. Ever since I've been wanting to use this tilt design to built the Swedish X2000 high speed tilting (...) (18 years ago, 24-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.dk, lugnet.loc.se, lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Aerotrain/hovertrain in Lego?
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(...) If you built a maglev then a Lego propeller (as mentioned elsewhere in the thread) should be powerful enough to power it, due to the much reduced friction. Control would be another matter... Tim (...) (18 years ago, 23-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I've toyed with that solution, but how do you propel a hovertrain in LEGO? If it has something that touches the track, that would make it not fully hoverable... -Rob www.brickmodder.net www.lifelites.com (18 years ago, 22-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Ben's World of ABS !?!
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(...) Pretty sure there's been a message on his site for a while that he was going to shut it down because of his disappointment with bley. Looks like he finally has done it. Tim (18 years ago, 22-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Ben's World of ABS !?!
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Looks like the domain or hosting plan for Ben's World of ABS and the FGLTC ran out. (URL) these sites been moved somewhere else? -- Bryan (18 years ago, 22-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Aerotrain/hovertrain in Lego?
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(...) Mark & Ross Benz of BAYLUG created a working mag-lev train using lego train magnets. It canbe done, it just might get expensive if you use an all-Lego solution. IIRC, they used (URL) on the track and (URL) under the train body. Paul Sinasohn (...) (18 years ago, 22-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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(...) Making it hover in Lego (as opposed to running on monorail wheels) might be a challenge! Tim (18 years ago, 22-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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(...) Looks like something from Thunderbirds :) (18 years ago, 20-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Aerotrain/hovertrain in Lego?
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(...) Forgive me for butting into the convestation, but have you ever considered building a pair of Mindstorm controlled round houses for your Aerotrain? You could build a pair of passenger stations (one on each end of the track) that were really (...) (18 years ago, 20-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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| | Re: Aerotrain/hovertrain in Lego?
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(...) Hm. The monorail wheels are pretty smooth-- I wonder if you could use the big Lego fans to actually drive a little car forward... Hm. I'd guess the battery box would be WAY too heavy to make it move. And certainly not enough to make it go up (...) (18 years ago, 20-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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| | Re: Aerotrain/hovertrain in Lego?
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(...) Mine goes only straight, that's right. As mine is 6 wide, I cannot use the "stop track". So I made a track without the gear rack. Don't forget to turn off the motor when it reach the end to preserv the battery ;) For the real one, hum, I (...) (18 years ago, 20-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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| | Re: Aerotrain/hovertrain in Lego?
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Very Nice! I had not seen that on brickshelf before. I am asuming the real thing and the lego version both only go straight, correct? -Rob A> (...) (18 years ago, 20-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Aerotrain/hovertrain in Lego?
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(...) Hi Rob, I built it for one of our train shows, in Orleans, France, November 2004. Orleans is the native town of the aerotrain, so I tought we should show one with LEGO bricks ;). (URL) I used monorail base and motor to do it. I wanted to make (...) (18 years ago, 20-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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| | Aerotrain/hovertrain in Lego?
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I foud this curious picture: (URL) It is (poorly translated by google) a hovertrain, that runs on a monorail style track, with a jet(?) engine driving it forwards. they referred to it as a "plane without wings". Any ideas on how this could be (...) (18 years ago, 20-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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| | Re: PSLTC Displaying at Western Washington Fair September 8--24
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(...) (URL) these photos are full-resolution, quality has been sacrificed for file size. Originals available upon request. -dw (18 years ago, 18-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Articulation with "working" connecting rods
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(...) An alternative solution, more complex than what I wrote earlier, uses a method similar to Mike's, in that flex tubes allow the set of drivers to be split into blocks, but different in the way the blocks are linked and kept synchronised. The (...) (18 years ago, 15-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Michiana-LUG Meeting - Saturday, September 23, 2006
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To All, We are having another meeting! We'll be sharing stories of BrickFest 2006, discussing future shows for the club, as well as showing off our latest MOCs! Here are the details: When: Saturday, September 23, 2006 Time: 12:00AM EST / 1:00PM EST (...) (18 years ago, 15-Sep-06, to lugnet.org.us.michiana-lug, lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.in, lugnet.loc.us.in.ftw)
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| | PSLTC Displaying at Western Washington Fair September 8--24
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Every year the Western Washington Fair in Puyallup invites a train club to display at the Fair. This year that club is the Puget Sound LEGO Train Club (the first L-guage club so featured since the PNLTC displayed in 1999). The PSLTC has a 32'x15' (...) (18 years ago, 12-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.wa)
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| | Re: Articulation with "working" connecting rods
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(...) As a train novice I don't know how much help I can be, but since I don't remember reading this idea thus far in the thread, I'm just going to throw it out there: shrink the wheels. I ran into this problem once before, and while designing a (...) (18 years ago, 11-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Articulation with "working" connecting rods
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(...) Sebastian, Here's my 2-10-4 using BBB wheels. I used Technic Flex-System Hose (URL) to go from the cylinders to the drivers. Pictures can be found here: (URL) It does navigate points and curves most of the time :). Its still a work in (...) (18 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | [Press Release} BayLUG Upcoming Events and 2007 Preview (long)
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SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CA The Bay Area LEGO Users Group (BayLUG) and Train Club (BayLTC) is pleased to announce our schedule for the rest of 2006, and a preview of the 2007 schedule. ---...--- Great Train Expo Sat-Sun, September 23-24, 2006 (...) (18 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sac, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.org.us.baylug, lugnet.org.us.sacbb, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: Rusty Freight Car - an experiment
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(...) I can see the idea of this, but I'd take it further. The white is very bright and contrasts too much with the very dark rust colours. I'd lose the stripe (or use a different colour entirely - sand blue?) and swap the white for something (...) (18 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | Re: A small (and my first) train animation done with MLCad
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(...) converts it? Thanks, AHui (18 years ago, 7-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: A small (and my first) train animation done with MLCad
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(...) Dear Jindroush, Jeroen has given a good explanation why the window flickers. I have now exchanged the LGEO code for the part within the pov-file against standard coding without LGEO and that problem is solved. Since radiosity slows down the (...) (18 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Psshh-te-cuff
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(...) You know what, I just can't say "Jones the Steam" in anything other than a (fake) Welsh accent :-) Ivor was a favourite from my childhood. I love your version and can't wait to seem him for real. Awesome. Martin (18 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Psshh-te-cuff
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"...Not very long ago, in the top left-hand corner of Wales, there was a railway. It wasn't a very long railway or a very important railway, but it was called The Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited, and it was all there was. And (...) (18 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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| | Re: Articulation with "working" connecting rods
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(...) Which will introduce another problem - the piston rods will hit the wheels when they extend out the front of the cylinder. I had that exact same problem on the X class, but managed to work it so they just miss. It's very close though. ROSCO (18 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: A small (and my first) train animation done with MLCad
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(...) Nice. I see that the front window is 'pulsating'. It looks similar to my problem I've encountered with animation rendering in PovRay. Have you used radiosity or not? My prob: (URL) - For Czech Lego Fans (18 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: A small (and my first) train animation done with MLCad
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(...) Dear Tim, take this as not more than a first test run.... I did several runs so far in which I was playing around with anti alias (the POV-Ray manual tell NOT to use it, while I found it looked way better with AA-settings). I also tested (...) (18 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: A small (and my first) train animation done with MLCad
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(...) Thanks Jeroen, for pointing this out! I havn't used Anton's parts so far, but I may give them a try with one of my next renders. Leg Godt! Ben (18 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Since you have 8 coupled wheels, some of the sets need to use blind drivers. The easiest solution therefore is to make all 4 sets use blind drivers, suspend them all off the rails by having the leading and trailing 4-wheel sets as the bogies, (...) (18 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Rusty Freight Car - an experiment
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Hi Erik, (...) Actually wasn't much improvement. It was too earthy and not washed out enough. Light yellow would be perfect but it has too limited a range of plates. (...) Do you think it would be worth sacrificing the horizontal lines for this? I (...) (18 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | Re: Rusty Freight Car - an experiment
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(...) Nice job Tim. The improvements I imagine : Colors : replace yellow by tan. The colors must be washed out. When I look the original picture, the first thing which comes to me is the vertical lines, resulting of the rust which flown. I will (...) (18 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | Re: Articulation with "working" connecting rods
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(...) That even more complicated than I what I did (URL) but it might just work. You will have to make the piston rods long enough to not drop out of the cylinders when thay are int he extended foward position. Tim BTW obviously I had a lot more (...) (18 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Rusty Freight Car - an experiment
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(...) Its getting there but I think you (I?) have set yourself an impossible task. Maybe some grey and bley and brown and brrown combos would help? One small thing tho, its not a freight car, its a loco! Tim (18 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: A small (and my first) train animation done with MLCad
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Sebastian Dyson schreef: (...) Short aswer: I think it has to do with the LGEO-parts which look beautiful but are programmed very complex and are a bit buggy. In some transparant parts these bugs cause a grainy or noisy finish. Long answer: I think (...) (18 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Rusty Freight Car - an experiment
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Hi all, Knowing I have an interest in dirty models, Tim David told me to build (URL) this> well kept delight. I'm relatively pleasedish with what I made but would be interested in hearing other peoples ideas on how to improve it as I know it's far (...) (18 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Articulation with "working" connecting rods
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Ok I think I have something. Each cylinder is free to slide longitudinally on the frame. This movement is constrained by a vertical pin (or 1x1 round brick) on each side of the pilot truck. These pins engage a transverse groove (currently a pair of (...) (18 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: A small (and my first) train animation done with MLCad
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(...) Hi Ben, Very neat and I imagine from my past povray animation experiments that it was very time consuming. The one problem I have with it is the sky. It distracts from the train in the first few seconds of the animation. Perhaps a smoother (...) (18 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: A small (and my first) train animation done with MLCad
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Nice and smooth, and I believe I may be stealing those connecting rods. Have you worked out what's making the cab window flicker so? (18 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | A small (and my first) train animation done with MLCad
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Hi all, after playing around with nearly all (common) features in POV-Ray - like radiosity, media, fog etc. - I have finally started the latest excurse into working with the clock variable. Here comes my first small animation movie (1.5 MB) of the (...) (18 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Graffiti Decals
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(...) Thanks, Rob. I am not a rtltoronto person but I think some other groups might be interested in these as well. (I know I am!) x-posted to .town & .trains Jonathan (18 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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(...) That's quite neat - it hadn't occurred to me to shorten the front truck like that to make room behind. But then I was trying to fit a motor in the front when I did mine. Jason R (18 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) snip (...) Actually I wouldn't call that cheating at all, I'd call it compromise. And as far as I'm concerned, compromise is fine (even necessary!) in building LEGO models. I would probably do something like Teunis did in his S-class, but (...) (18 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hello Sebastian, The best I've manage to work out on this is with my 4-8-4 Northern engine as shown at: (URL) In this case, I put the leading wheels forward of the steam cylinders. The cylinders stay attached to the same bogie/truck that drive (...) (18 years ago, 4-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Not sure I can help you much here - I designed my cylinders to be quite flat so they could slide 'twixt motor and soleplate. With small BBB wheels on the front your front truck is lower than a standard motor, but if you say Rosco's are too (...) (18 years ago, 4-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Articulation with "working" connecting rods
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I'm trying to design an 8-wide 4-8-4 using Big Ben's wheels (CAD only, I'm but a poor student), and want the loco to be able to negotiate standard Lego curves. As the leading truck has an axle each side of the cylinders, I'm finding it hard to keep (...) (18 years ago, 4-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | New BBBset - #172 Train Handcar
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Big Ben Bricks is pleased to announce a new set. Set #172, Train Handcar. (2 URLs) It comes with 39 pieces, including 4 Big Ben Bricks train wheels and two highly flexible minifigs (made using basketball legs with the springs removed). As the (...) (18 years ago, 4-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, FTX)
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| | Re: New MOCs
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(...) I like to avoid compression of vehicles, just having compression of a shorter train length depending on the layout, as other model railway enthusiasts do. It's 8mm:1ft scale. I could try 9-wide, but it's more effort - perhaps in the long term (...) (18 years ago, 3-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Review of Big Ben Bricks' Train Handcar set
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Recently I got the opportunity to get an early copy of Big Ben Bricks' latest offering, a train handcar. I must say that for a small set it has proven to be lots of fun to play with. You can read my review online at the ILTCO web page: (URL) (18 years ago, 3-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Brilliant station by dagealka
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(...) This station certainly is gorgeous-- ingenious design; total package intensely loaded. Thanks for bring this MOC to attention-- well deserved later, James Mathis. (18 years ago, 2-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Brilliant station by dagealka
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(...) Wow, that really is an amazing design. The building has so much texture., and the scene is so well put together. Yes... stealable ideas :) ! Chris (18 years ago, 2-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: French Sleeping Car
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(...) Wow, you really went that extra mile to get that white stripe in there. And to get bunks with red blankets and white pillows in there... you must be a glutton for punishment! Great job. Oh, if you think I'm being to obsequious, then I'll (...) (18 years ago, 2-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: SNVT Contest winners
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(...) Congratulations to all the winers and thanks everyone for the good ideas. I hope that everyone was inspired by the models that they saw on the site. I hope that we will all continue to add models to the site to make it and even better (...) (18 years ago, 1-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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| | SNVT Contest winners
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We have announced the winners of the SNVT LEGO Factory contest. (URL) to all, -Eric Kingsley (18 years ago, 31-Aug-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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| | Podagons, Tragon and clikit creatures oh my!
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Hello all! This is my 1st post here in LUGNET-at last! Here are some of my new MOCS- First the Podagon: Greeple: (2 URLs) More pictures of my Tragon: (2 URLs) Hemi STP: the racing turtle! (2 URLs) There are lots of other new clikiters (clikit (...) (18 years ago, 31-Aug-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.animation, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains, lugnet.vikings, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Questions about doing a museum show
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(...) .. Gail- I’m sorry I only just noticed your post on LUGNET regarding train displays at museums. SCLTC has been doing a 10-12 week show at the San Diego Model Railroad Museum every year since 2002. It’s the highlight of the year for us and we (...) (18 years ago, 30-Aug-06, to lugnet.trains.org, FTX)
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| | Re: **10173** CHRISTMAS TRAIN! - Get it now! - 115cm long!
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<SNIP> (...) Hi Jason, We found the Christmas train at LEGO Brand Store in the "Blue Water Mall" (Dartforth - Upper Thames - Kent. Phone : 01322 427272) for the price of 50 Pound, thats allmost 75 Euro. Regards, Ludo (18 years ago, 29-Aug-06, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.brickshops, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New MOCs
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(...) [...] Very nice. At 62 studs long, I'm guessing that you aren't compressing, right? They look cool, and I like the way you mix the different window styles to help capture the right look. (...) [...] The hoppers look cool and the fact that they (...) (18 years ago, 29-Aug-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | GPLR at Fun In The Park...
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The Greater Portland LEGO® Railroaders participated in the Fun In The Park event ( (URL) www.funinthepark.info> ) on August 5, 2006 in Wilsonville, Oregon with another fantastic LEGO railroad layout. We were selected, amongst a large crowd of local (...) (18 years ago, 29-Aug-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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| | Re: **10173** CHRISTMAS TRAIN! - Get it now! - 115cm long!
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(...) Um, that was Melody Brown and I am Melody Caddick ;) Sorry, it was a mistake... I don't post in these regions so often... Mel.C (18 years ago, 29-Aug-06, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.brickshops, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: **10173** CHRISTMAS TRAIN! - Get it now! - 115cm long!
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(...) [Regarding 10173 auction anouncement] Moin Mel, though the set information itself might be interesting to the train folks, please do not post any sale or auction announcements to a group outside lugnet.market in the future. THANK YOU! -Rene (18 years ago, 29-Aug-06, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.brickshops, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: **10173** CHRISTMAS TRAIN! - Get it now! - 115cm long!
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(...) Interesting to see how LEGO seem to be using the inverse of the generally accepted exchange rate. By that reasoning we can expect it to be around 150 quid by the time it reaches the UK... Jason R (18 years ago, 28-Aug-06, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.brickshops, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: **10173** CHRISTMAS TRAIN! - Get it now! - 115cm long!
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(...) Hi, the set made it to the shelves of the LEGO stores in Oberhausen and Hamburg (which is both located in Germany) in early August 2006. Then the shop manager where informed that the sets have to be kept in the backstore till october 18th... (...) (18 years ago, 28-Aug-06, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.brickshops, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: A new open air trolley car
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(...) [...] (...) Hi Tim, Thanks, I like the way it turned out, and it wasn't even painful to make. It was one of those rare models that just came to me (I was, of course, basing the design on a trolley car that I have ridden on). Anyway, the camera (...) (18 years ago, 28-Aug-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: **10173** CHRISTMAS TRAIN! - Get it now! - 115cm long!
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DDD...DDD This just in, We take you live to a phone somewhere in the US. The Christmas Lego train should be in the Sept/Oct catalog. Previous reports showed that the set was only available in Europe and only 59 sets were made. These reports were (...) (18 years ago, 28-Aug-06, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.brickshops, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: New MOCs
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(...) In the light of events in the UK in the last few years, with crashes caused by broken rails, I decided it would be fun to introduce a deliberate mistake and vary the SNOT letters a bit, to make "Railcrack" (bottom left) and "Failtrack" (bottom (...) (18 years ago, 28-Aug-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: **10173** CHRISTMAS TRAIN! - Get it now! - 115cm long!
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(...) Lugnet's set reference lsts it as a 2006 set, so (hopefully?) it'll be out in time for the Holidays this year. Here's the building instructions straight from TLG: (URL) Book 1> (URL) Book 2> The instruction books also contain an image of the (...) (18 years ago, 28-Aug-06, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.brickshops, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: A new open air trolley car
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(...) Hi Chris, This trolley is stunning and knowing it can take a camera makes it better still. Is the camera in there in these shots or do you have to remove stuff to add it? Tim (18 years ago, 28-Aug-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: **10173** CHRISTMAS TRAIN! - Get it now! - 115cm long!
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When did this set come out? Never seen anything like it. (18 years ago, 27-Aug-06, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.brickshops, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | **10173** CHRISTMAS TRAIN! - Get it now! - 115cm long!
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The auction: (URL) The set: (URL) The Details: :D ***GET IT NOW FOR CHRISTMAS!!!*** :D This is an auction for a Christmas Train 10173 This is MISB you can see more pictures of this set here: (URL) is the last set I have for sale, so therefore I have (...) (18 years ago, 27-Aug-06, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.brickshops, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Very nice, but I just noticed the SNOT on the one bottom left has a minor error - looks like it's on drugs or something... ROSCO (18 years ago, 26-Aug-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | A new open air trolley car
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I just almost finished this new trolley car. (URL) an open air trolley car that carries a small video camera that provides a minifig's eye view of the scenery as it rolls by. The trolley car also holds some "fancy" circuitry that feeds 9v power to (...) (18 years ago, 24-Aug-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc) !
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Hey all. After a recent exhibition (Malkara 06) I put some pictures and movies on Brickshelf and updated the Bodville website Visit Bodville here: (URL) watch the new movies: Super Chief time lapse build (URL) 05 Movie (URL) of Malkara 2006 setup (...) (18 years ago, 20-Aug-06, to lugnet.trains)
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I was pleased to see your rake of Railtrack hoppers, the original was your best design IMHO. There's a lot of work in that one pic! In fact I would say that that is probably the most complicated design (in Lego) I have seen built in multiple. Tim (18 years ago, 19-Aug-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | new moc: Western Auto Building
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Those of you who have visited Kansas City may recognize this famous icon. The Western Auto Building was built in 1915 for the Coca Cola Company and become home to Western Auto in the 1920s. The building was converted to loft apartments in 2004. The (...) (18 years ago, 19-Aug-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, FTX) !!
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| | Re: BBB wheels "x-4-x" steam configuration BKM
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(...) I think the answer, if you can, is to seperate the tender connection from the rear truck. Obviously the connection need to be pivotted at some point above or foward of the truck so it becomes a question of minimising the height the (...) (18 years ago, 18-Aug-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | BBB wheels "x-4-x" steam configuration BKM
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HI All, Since that last post generated some traffic perhaps this will too! :) I am building a “4-8-4” (no prototype in mind) steam engine. I decided to fix the "8" wheels to the boiler/chassis and have the front and rear trucks extended on a pivot (...) (18 years ago, 18-Aug-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Got any cow catcher ideas?
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oh yeah... NO ONE bit on the Bionicle elements. That's one of my only hopes for bionicle, is that there one day there might be a good train greeble or cow catcher element. :) SteveB (18 years ago, 18-Aug-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Got any cow catcher ideas?
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WOW, Thanks everyone!!! They are all great ideas and very inspiring! I think I'll try something with robot arms and/or droid arms and flex tubing. (...) (18 years ago, 18-Aug-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Got any cow catcher ideas?
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(...) My own take on the cowcatcher can be seen here: (URL) (18 years ago, 17-Aug-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) My non US style cowcatcher: (URL) (18 years ago, 17-Aug-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 7897 - quality issues
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Looks like that new Ldraw part is wrong! Tim (18 years ago, 17-Aug-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Got any cow catcher ideas?
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(...) Here is an idea I just threw together. (URL) (18 years ago, 17-Aug-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Not sure how much help a steam novice like me can be, but here are the two designs I've used thus far. (URL) (18 years ago, 17-Aug-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) A quick foray into BrickShelf searching for "steam engine" yielded quite a bit! (URL) (18 years ago, 17-Aug-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I used 1x2 grill tiles mounted at an angle on my Challenger: (URL) Lego version> I think they work pretty well when compared to the (URL) real thing> You modeling any particular 4-8-4? JohnG, GMLTC (18 years ago, 17-Aug-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Got any cow catcher ideas?
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Hi All, I am working on a 4-8-4 (6-wide, BBB wheels, in black) and I'm stuck trying to design or come up with ideas for the cow catcher. I know there are many great cowcatcher ideas out there. Unfortunately there just isn't a centralized place to go (...) (18 years ago, 17-Aug-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 7897 - quality issues
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ROTFL!!!!!!!! sb (...) (18 years ago, 17-Aug-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: 7897 - quality issues
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(...) Perhaps they were trying to design the world's first remote control piggy bank. :) (18 years ago, 17-Aug-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: 7897 - quality issues
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(...) I have a hard time believing that the size of the part is to blame. I give you three examples of large parts that have no gaps. These all come in the new Passenger Plane 7893. (URL) LEGO® has no problem with making large pieces fit together. I (...) (18 years ago, 15-Aug-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | New MOCs
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Just posted some new MOC pictures: Coaches to extend my Hogwarts Express, Hopper Wagons with SNOT lettering and my station building. Coaches here: (URL) including pictures of the underside and bogies. These are 8mm:1ft scale British Mk1 coaches in (...) (18 years ago, 14-Aug-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.build.schleim) !!
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(...) "Only the cheapest is good enough!" * * potential new slogan of LEGO. (18 years ago, 14-Aug-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | 7897 - quality issues
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Wow! These gaps are wide enough to push coins of any size through! (URL) Jan Beyer of LEGO told at 1000steine, that all trains will look like this and he gave a (lame?) explanation, that there are limitations in designing the single-piece-mould, (...) (18 years ago, 13-Aug-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | QuéLUG at the Canadian Railway Museum
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(voir le message en français plus bas) Hi! August 19 & 20, QuéLUG, the group in Québec, Canada, will display at the Canadian Railway Museum in St-Constant (south of Montreal) with a 21 ft x 8 ft train and town layout. Find all the infos you need (...) (18 years ago, 13-Aug-06, to lugnet.loc.ca.qc, lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.qc.mon, lugnet.loc.ca.qc.que, lugnet.trains) !
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| | Re: Legoland train
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(...) Try modelling that in lego... :) (18 years ago, 12-Aug-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Legoland train
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I've found some pics of a Legoland advertising liveried train. Its probably been around for a good few years now and may even have been repainted. (URL) South West Trains> (URL) 455856> (5 URLs) Another one that I can't imbed> Tim (18 years ago, 11-Aug-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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