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This train is awesome! Very well built. I love the color and the design. Next time you should make one that can carry both beer and soda bottles. I love how you held the beer in place, very ingenious! Overall, 9 out of 10. (18 years ago, 13-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | Pictures from GWLTS-IV (Swindon, UK)
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Dear All I'm pleased to announce pictures of the fourth Great Western LEGO Train Show at STEAM, the Museum of the Great Western Railway in Swindon, UK. The event took place on Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th October and saw over 2600 visitors through (...) (18 years ago, 13-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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| | Re: KCLUG - Greater Kansas City Model Railroad Expo - Pictures
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Well done lads! I have never displayed anything but can imagine the co-ordination and planning it would take to achieve such a slick finished result... God Bless, Nathan Visit my brickshelf gallery: (URL) (pic=link) (18 years ago, 12-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | SLTC @ the AMRA(NSW) - more photos
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The Sydney LEGO Train Club recently attended their first model railroad show at the Australian Model Railroad Association(New South Wales) annual show held on the first weekend in October in Hurstville,Sydney. The club only formed in May 2006, so we (...) (18 years ago, 12-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: KCLUG - Greater Kansas City Model Railroad Expo - Pictures
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(...) Excellent work, guys! This is a very impressive first effort! There are some very nice buildings and modeling going on-- with room to grow and expand. BTW, if you need a club logo, LMK. I had already worked up the KCS logo for the CMLUG a long (...) (18 years ago, 12-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | KCLUG - Greater Kansas City Model Railroad Expo - Pictures
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Kansas City lUG completed our first train show a couple weeks ago. We had a 10ft by 15ft layout which I think was a complete sucess. We were invited back next year, so if your around, join us. Warning there are several very big overall pictures. (...) (18 years ago, 12-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.loc.us.mo, FTX)
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| | Re: PSLTC show at the Puyallup Fair
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I like your Conjunction Junction. I was just getting into LEGO as a child when those first aired! (URL) (18 years ago, 12-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Bulleid Leader
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(...) Thanks Tim, Concerning the color scheme, I read somewhere (Can't remember the link) that the prototype was grey with a red trim. Now it didn't tell me where the trim was applied, so I asked myself, "If I were painting the engine, where would I (...) (18 years ago, 11-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Bulleid Leader
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Not so much a well constructed post as a selection of thoughts Much better photography than the Wardale I think you did right with your choice of wheels The shallow cabs look good, like the real thing they start off higher off the ground than normal (...) (18 years ago, 11-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Bulleid Leader
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(...) It's all about the somewhat obscure and less than successful engines. The Kitson-Still was actually one of my options, but it's even MORE obscure and less successful than the Leader... Another engine I was contemplating was the original (...) (18 years ago, 10-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Bulleid Leader
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(...) Better build it then..... (18 years ago, 10-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Bulleid Leader
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(...) You :) Tim (18 years ago, 10-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) How about: Hush Hush The LMS Doble Sentinel shunter The Dyke branch Sentinel/Doble railcar The Fell loco (URL) Kitson-Still (URL) of ground to cover yet... James (18 years ago, 10-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Bulleid Leader
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(...) Who? That was on my list, it is very obscure only one ever ran. Mark ps My Q1 (see previous post) ran successfully at our STEAM display at teh weekend. (18 years ago, 10-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Bulleid Leader
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(...) You'll have to hurry, I know someone is planning GT3! Tim (18 years ago, 10-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: The Beer Train
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(...) Just in time for Octoberfest! I love it! :) -Anne (18 years ago, 10-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Bulleid Leader
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(...) (snip) (...) Well, there goes my plans for modeling that obscure, less than sucessful UK engine...there are a few left (I can think of 3 off hand) that would be interesting models... Nicely done, James (18 years ago, 9-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Bulleid Leader
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The Bulleid Leader: This is probably less obscure than my last train MOC, the Wardale 5AT. The Leader was an articulated steam locomotive designed by the Southern Railway's Oliver Bulleid (Of Q1 fame).Like many experimental locomotives, the Leader (...) (18 years ago, 9-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | Re: PSLTC show at the Puyallup Fair
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(...) Yes, those are upside down chairs. It took quite a bit of effort to get windows to work with everything upside down (in case it isn't obvious from that sentence, the house is mine). (...) Brian Kelley does an AMAZING job at setting up the yard (...) (18 years ago, 8-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: The Beer Train
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(...) I love seeing Legos built into usefule real world items, and a Beer Train has to be at the top of the list of usability! (18 years ago, 8-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Cool, I like the way you have taken the effort with the way they look, things like the discharge valve wheel etc. Tim (18 years ago, 8-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | The Beer Train
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A very simple idea and a very simple train: The Beer Train (URL) All pictures on (URL) During the FIFA Soccer World Cup, the train was operating on a regular basis with up to 10 daily services between Fridge (in Kitchen) via Fuzball to Couch (in (...) (18 years ago, 8-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.fun, lugnet.loc.dk, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Building the Christmas Train 2006: Set 10173 - brief report & pics
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(...) NOW we DO have instructions for adding a 9v motor! When Lego S@H actually ships the Train set, the instructions, together with 2pcs 1x4 plate, are added! (URL) I also build my motor in the tender, but the designers at Lego made it very simple. (...) (18 years ago, 6-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Building the Christmas Train 2006: Set 10173 - brief report & pics
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True it doesn't have instructions for adding a 9v motor, but its still a very nice set. Oh and speaking of 9v motors, I made conversions in MLCAD for 9v and 12v motors. One drall back though, it doesn't allow for adding a power cable for a light (...) (18 years ago, 6-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: PSLTC show at the Puyallup Fair
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(...) Yes they are (that's one of Jeff Pelletier's houses). What's scary is that I didn't realize that until a member of the public at the Fair pointed it out. . . (...) Brian (who made the yard) also used those windows structurally for his oil rig (...) (18 years ago, 6-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: PSLTC show at the Puyallup Fair
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(...) (URL) House on the left>. Are those upside down minifigure chairs? Great look on the tiled siding. The gray airplane windows for (URL) towers/supports>-- nice: Nice layout PSLTC. later, James Mathis (18 years ago, 5-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Building the Christmas Train 2006: Set 10173 - brief report & pics
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(...) That is pretty cool. The Wheels could be then swapped out with custom wheels...example the wheels available from BBB.... then??? Ben (18 years ago, 5-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Danish train show electronics
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(...) You guessed correct! These pics are from my rail-race-extreme layout, and the Led's are just for the looks. If a race starts, both tracks light up. One red, one yellow. Side-effect, very usefull in this case: the Led's reduce the amount of (...) (18 years ago, 5-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Building the Christmas Train 2006: Set 10173 - brief report & pics
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(...) No problem. I'll be there to build-up on Wednesday, visitor at Sunday and break-down on Tuesday. You will find the train at the gigantic Belug display. The ZOO-display from Rick and me is integrated in that Belug layout. See you soon! Klaas (18 years ago, 5-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: pics from AMRA(NSW) train show
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(...) I posted more pictures of the SLTC layout on Brickshelf... see: (URL) still can't believe that I managed to get an entire airfield constructed in the short period of time that I had to construct my module for the SLTC layout! There are other (...) (18 years ago, 5-Oct-06, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Danish train show electronics
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(...) Well, I wasn't there, and I'm no electrical engineer, but I'm going to take a stab at guessing. It looks like in that picture that the two LEDs are getting their power directly from the rails. In the picture before it in the gallery: (URL) (...) (18 years ago, 4-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Danish train show electronics
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Does anyone know what this little bit of electronics is for? (URL) from a LEGO event recently held in Denmark. I found the link on Jan Beyer's Blog ( (URL) ) but there's a problem with that blog which makes it impossible to write comments. (18 years ago, 4-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: British Rail Class 08
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(...) Hi Carl, Thanks for your comments and glad you like it. Unfortunately the mood strikes me quite rarely these days as I'm having a lot of fun jumping from theme to theme after a very solid run of trains last year. That said an interesting (...) (18 years ago, 3-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: British Rail Class 08
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(...) I like it a lot! It's small, sweet, detailed and very curved! I even put the picture of it as my Desktop Wallpaper, which only entices me more into wanting to build it :-) I hope you'll be in the mood again soon if you can create such lovely (...) (18 years ago, 3-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Save 9V Trains Contest Winners Rendering
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A while back, the Save 9V Trains website held a contest to design train models using LEGO Digital Designer. There were several categories for entries - steam locomotives, diesel/electric locomotives, rolling stock, rail maintenance, passenger cars, (...) (18 years ago, 2-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | British Rail Class 08
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It's been a while since I made a train but I was in the mood today. (2 URLs) BS> (when moderated) (URL) Flickr> Comments welcome, Tim (18 years ago, 1-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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| | PSLTC show at the Puyallup Fair
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This year, The Puget Sound Lego Train Club (PSLTC) was asked to be the main model railroad layout for the fair. The layout was a great success and thanks goes out to all of the members and all of the people who helped out with staffing. Pictures: (2 (...) (18 years ago, 1-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.loc.us.wa, FTX) !!
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| | Customizing the 7897 Passenger Train: Danish IC4, version 3
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Hey, Bought the 7897 Passenger Train the other day and immediately realized that it would take only a few modifications to turn the German ICE-like design into the Danish IC4 passenger train. Here's the result: (URL) All the pictures in the (URL) (...) (18 years ago, 1-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, FTX) !
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| | Re: BayLTC @ Great Train Expo, San Jose
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(...) ooo. I remember this, now. Thanks all. Jonathan (18 years ago, 27-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf.sj, lugnet.org.us.baylug, FTX)
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| | Re: BayLTC @ Great Train Expo, San Jose
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(...) That is correct. James made some new instructions after seeing Ross's version and I built it. You can see James' instructions and pictures of the trolleys I built here (URL) (18 years ago, 27-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf.sj, lugnet.org.us.baylug, FTX)
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