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(...) Dear John, Thanks for your kind words on this engine. I have been a LEGO Fan for more than 30 years now. For 25 years that included both the company and the LEGO toy system. Although the company has done some huge steps towards us fans, I am (...) (18 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Dear Ralph, I agree, that the Maerklin catalogue is in fact a very helpful instrument for any (LEGO) train fan. Nowadays the internet may substitute this a lot, but still it is hard to find such a nice collection of different style rolling (...) (18 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) (URL) show a (...) Dear Chris, the picture shows indeed a prototype sketch (a sideview of the engine, which I found on the web). I place this in a grafic program (in my case this is "Micrografx Designer 7.0" which is utterly cheap (<10Eur) , (...) (18 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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(...) I do this too, for my bigger stuff as I find it hard to visualise the size without it. There is a bit of the drawing of my next model visible in (URL) this pic>. Although the drawing quality suffers with enlargment; for lego building purposes (...) (18 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) I routinely use locomotive schematics when I build (from (URL)). I'll blow them up to 1:1 to size and away I go:-) For prototype "accuracy", it is the only way to go IMO. Which brings me to the (URL) wide version of Trolley> I'm building. I'm (...) (18 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) [...] (...) That is an excellent engine that you have built Ben. I also appreciate that you took the time to comment on it. Your models have always been an inspiration, but I think I just learned a building technique from you that doesn't (...) (18 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Bruce, I noticed that on the S@H website, nearly everything involving curved tracks is presently out of stock, implying to me that more curved tracks are presently being made as well. Tracks are at this link: (URL) I'm not sure how many tracks (...) (18 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Paul S. D'Urbano wrote: [...] (...) [...] (...) Paul, It would be great if the models were built and commented on. I know the few models that I submitted are buildable, but that kid of defeats the real purpose of Factory... I mean really, if I (...) (18 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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Reinhard "Ben" Beneke, WOW. Simply amazing. I wish I had those peices, but I dont and nor do I have the money form them. Great attention to detail. Just as a suggestion, I know you hate the new grey colors, but I have found they work perfectly for (...) (18 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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I'm no trainhead,and I never comment on them... but this is simply beautiful! So well done it requires no knowledge of the thee to see that it stands out as a masterpiece. Great work! And if you ever get too frustrated try castle ; ) God Bless, (...) (18 years ago, 28-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) I have been buying 9v straight track regularly from the local Lego Store and the three boxes I bought two weeks ago have new dark blay. All of the earlier boxes were old dark grey. I assume they had run out of boxed straight track and had more (...) (18 years ago, 28-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Hello, Ben! I'm glad that despite your frustrations with TLG, you have nevertheless decided to build with our favorite toy:-) And what a build! This is a fantastic MOC; the (URL), (URL) amazing schleim action>, and your overall attention to (...) (18 years ago, 28-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) ... (...) ... (...) This is simply beautiful. It reminds me of being a kid again and looking through the Marklin catalog for my favorite engine every Christmas. Now that LEGO has announced a partnership with Hitechnic for NXT sensors, what is (...) (18 years ago, 28-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) i have passed this question on to LEGO, I will let you know when there is an answer. Jeff VW (URL) (18 years ago, 28-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Hi train fans, the possible(?) end of 9V trains, the blay desaster and the too high demands of myself against my MOCs have lead to a kind of frustration in my hobby. Due to all this and more, I lost a lot of the fun that LEGO meant to me in the (...) (18 years ago, 28-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX) !!
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(...) Good link! (...) I don't bend the leads on the reed switches at all. I use very small reeds, maybe 1 cm in length, solder directly to the straight leads, and then carefully trim them shorter. (Trimming is optional.) The switch is then (...) (18 years ago, 27-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Miniatronics makes nice (URL) switches> that seems to work well. (...) Yes, you have to grab the lead in wire up close to the glass envelope with a pair of needle nose pliers, and, while holding the pliers you bend the wire. (...) Those are (...) (18 years ago, 27-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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While on vacation visiting relatives in New York for Thanksgiving, Ross and I were able to hook up with fellow Ashcanner Jonathan Lopes for lunch in Manhattan: (URL) and Jonathan pictured>> (Yo Yrizarry, any relation?;-) We had a great time visiting (...) (18 years ago, 27-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.people, FTX)
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Seven stalwart members of NovaLUG participated in the Dartmouth Sportsplex annual Train and Hobby Show on November 18th and 19th for the fifth consecutive year. As in previous years, we had our own exhibition room right off the main entrance and (...) (18 years ago, 25-Nov-06, to lugnet.org.ca.novalug, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.ns, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hi Ville, Unfortunately, there's no simple way to get the typical LEGO instructions experience with Factory. Often LDD's automatic instruction steps aren't well organized and sometimes impossible to follow. It's better if the model author (...) (18 years ago, 25-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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