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Hi all! With the attic being shaped up to become my hobby room, I'm designing plans to link all the existing sets & stuff I have created into my own Lego world. The main challenge will be the trains that will ride through the whole set-up. I've (...) (17 years ago, 15-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Three little MOCs
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(3 URLs) (Click pics for BS) (URL) Flickr> Hi all, A few MOCs (although the Forklift is more an EOC given the number of people I borrowed from). The freight car is a Cawoods wagon in British Fuel(s) paint. The forklift is based on work from Alban (...) (17 years ago, 14-Apr-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX) !
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| | Re: A Cool Viaduct
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(...) Eek! I am such a puts. Sorry Jordan. (...) (17 years ago, 14-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Tatra T-3 Moscow Tram
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(...) When I designed this tram, I had to make a decision: should I model the window frames or should I use standard windows? Since official LEGO models sometimes use non-transparent bricks as "windows", I thought I could do it as well. (Tiny Turbo (...) (17 years ago, 14-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | A Cool Viaduct
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Jason, I like your viaduct[1] that is featured on the Cool Train Creations web site. Oddly, when I download the model and open it, LDD reports that 51 pieces are placed incorrectly and that they will be removed. Does the same thing happen when you (...) (17 years ago, 14-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: BNSF Loco available again?
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(...) If I understand correctly, the Santa Fe Super Chief and BNSF locos have never been removed from the European Shop at Home site. Apparently, as I have been told by a LEGO store employee I talked to recently, LEGO has fixed product life cycles, (...) (17 years ago, 14-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: BNSF Loco available again?
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(...) Sorry for replying to my own post, but I just checked the LEGO site for Europe and discovered that the BNSF is showing available now as well as the Santa Fe Super Chief engine. CDC (17 years ago, 14-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: BNSF Loco available again?
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(...) I also ordered two of the BNSF train sets the day they became available. After I processed the order online I phoned shop@home to inquire if the sets were going to be available and to make sure this was not a fluke. I was told that a shipment (...) (17 years ago, 14-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: BNSF Loco available again?
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(...) What a drag. Might be worth a phone call. I hope it works out for you. Good luck! Jonathan (17 years ago, 13-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: BNSF Loco available again?
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(...) I ordered two of them when they first were available again on the 3rd of April with the promise they would be shipped in 14 days. After reading your post, I went to S@H to see for myself, and then out of curiousity checked on the status of my (...) (17 years ago, 13-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: BNSF Loco available again?
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(...) And, today it is nowhere to be found . . . Nowhere that I can see. Jonathan (17 years ago, 13-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Save the 10183 trains!
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In lugnet.trains, Jeroen de Haan wrote: ... (...) In working with LDD, I've found a couple of tricks. First, even in the instruction mode you can change your viewpoint to see the bricks that have appeared (a "highlight new bricks" feature in the (...) (17 years ago, 13-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: 6 wide Cab Forward 4-8-8-4 Steam Loco
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(...) James, Thanks for your comments. I have just rebuilt the cab again. Pics are in my Brickshelf Folder. (URL) Links. (URL) me know what you think. Thanks, Bruce (18 years ago, 11-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LDD Model of GG-1 Electric Locomotive - Advice Requested
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(...) Chris, Thank you very much for your comments and insight. Agreed, pivoting from the two inner trucks would reduce the overhang. There are two constraints affecting this design decision: I would like to have the three-wheel trucks on the (...) (18 years ago, 11-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Automated shunter/switcher
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(...) Very quick work getting a working decoupler in such a tiny space. I thought you may have bitten off more than you could chew but it seems I've happily been proved wrong. Awesome. (...) Well I'm not UK/US but I'm certainly a native speaker... (...) (18 years ago, 11-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: LDD Model of GG-1 Electric Locomotive - Advice Requested
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(...) Hi Jordan Definitely recognisable as the GG1 48 studs is long - the same length as my GE ES44AC which runs OK through curves. The only 'problem' will be clearance for the centre overhang. Mounting the pivots at the end, the centre of the body (...) (18 years ago, 11-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Automated shunter/switcher
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(...) I finally managed to create something that seems to be working, while still not standing in way of the original design (except for the lowest part at the rear, but I can live with that. (6 URLs) Magnets are coupled sideways, giving it enough (...) (18 years ago, 11-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: 10183 Hobby Train instuctions
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(...) Ah, he has posted that they were just for the first model, as Ross has said :( I assume he got an early copy before the instructions were printed. (although perhaps I should stop making assumptions!) Sorry to disapoint everybody. Tim (18 years ago, 11-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 10183 Hobby Train instuctions
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(...) Very interesting. I'd like to hear more details. I haven't got my sets yet (but I think they might be downstairs in the building office - I just need to be going by when someone is there), but the order emails list the instructions as separate (...) (18 years ago, 11-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 10183 Hobby Train instuctions
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(...) All 30 or just the main model? I thought printed instructions for the main model were included with the set? ROSCO (18 years ago, 11-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | 10183 Hobby Train instuctions
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A UK AFOL has reported that he has recieved printed instructions for this set after ringing up Lego. Tim (18 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | BNSF Loco available again?
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It appears this item is available again. Previously, this was listed: Sold Out. Now you can place it on back order and have it ship in 14 days. Interesting. Jonathan (18 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Save the 10183 trains!
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(...) Same here on Kubuntu Edgy & RHEL4. Up until LDD 1.4 it worked, but some routines were obviously modified afterwards which use routines not (yet?) supported by WINE. (18 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: 36 Axel Schnabel Car Take Three
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(...) James, Thanks for your comments. The white trucks are what motivated me to build this. I used the tile on the bracing structure because it tapered from 6 studs to 4 studs and this looked better. The black plates are decks and so I left them as (...) (18 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 36 Axel Schnabel Car Take Three
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(...) Pushing the limits of length is quite a feat. The white accent on the trucks serves the overall look very well, and gives detail to what would otherwise unbalance the model. I like the smooth red tile for the bracing structure, but that seems (...) (18 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Finno/Russian Boxcar
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(...) Exceptional. Lots of details. Looks like building it in red would be a bit painful as well. :o( 1x2 plates with sliding mechanism . . . . Great design, though! Jonathan (18 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: 36 Axel Schnabel Car Take Three
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(...) snip (...) Jordan, The trucks are Ross Neal's design. Making the outside pieces white made them look exactly like the pictures of the real one. The cascaded articulation is the same as the real one. My earlier schnabel car was backwards. All (...) (18 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 36 Axel Schnabel Car Take Three
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(...) Rob, Thank you. Bruce (18 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 36 Axel Schnabel Car Take Three
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(...) Wow, Bruce... that thing's ... enormous... and very well done. I especially like how you've done the custom white brick-work on the trucks. That's one big railcar... I'd be curious if a single locomotive can pull it, since in terms of axles, (...) (18 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 36 Axel Schnabel Car Take Three
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"Bruce S. Chamberlain" <sten@woz.org> wrote in message news:JG72pq.MBD@lugnet.com... (...) Absolutely a thing of beauty, and exactly the same length as the one I made a few years ago. Well done! -Rob www.brickmodder.net (18 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Building other people's designs
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(...) Its worth it. I beleive the .mpd file on Tim (Gould)'s BL page is the one I made after modding the design so if you use that to build don't be surprised if it has differences from his version! (...) It is dark blue. I used the train bases (...) (18 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Building other people's designs
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(...) Very nice. I actually got the cab finished on one of these a while ago but got distracted by other things calling me to build them. I'll have to revisit it at some point. (...) Again, very nice. Is that dark blue? It appears like it on my (...) (18 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | LDD slug models
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Here’s my take on a yard slug. Slugs are just frames with traction motors mounted on the wheels. The traction motors are fed from a slightly modified (added power sockets) diesel/electric locomotive that is coupled to the slug. At low speeds, the (...) (18 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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| | Re: Save the 10183 trains!
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(...) Well, it was worth a try. I tried both LDD1.6 and LDD2.0 . Both required a new Linux /lib32 library, libdrm.so.1 . I got that and installed it. LDD1.6 tries to do what looks like some OpenGLL stuff that isn't supported. It *did* manage to (...) (18 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Some models completed
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I designed a nuclear flask wagon and runner in CAD (URL) nearly four years ago>. I've finally built them and another British wagon, a hopper. (URL) In the time between designing the flask wagon and now, the tan 2x3 inverse slopes and the the white (...) (18 years ago, 8-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Santa Fe SD45 2B
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(...) Hmm, link didn't work. here it is again (2 URLs) (18 years ago, 8-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Santa Fe SD45 2B
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After building a (URL) BN GP38-2B> a while ago I thought I would build another B unit, this time from the other BNSF constituent. (2 URLs) I'm reasonably pleased with the lettering for a first time attempt but it doesn't look much like the real (...) (18 years ago, 8-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | Building other people's designs
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I've been building other people's designs recently. (URL) Tim Gould's Seaboard Air Lines VO660, modified a bit. (URL) A couple of reefers from Jake McKee's book, again modified. It's nice having the basis done for you while being able to put your (...) (18 years ago, 8-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | 36 Axel Schnabel Car Take Three
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I have just finished my third version of the 36 Axel Schnabel Car. This is more realistic looking than my last one. Real one can be seen here. (URL) Brickshelf folder. (URL) deep Links. (URL) is 192 studs long and can go through points. Let me know (...) (18 years ago, 8-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: A Technic Train
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Nifty work there! It definetly looks fun, and makes me want to get some of those wheels. Without a differential, does it suffer on curves(1)? The only work around I can think of would be to only power one side of each axle, or put the gearing the (...) (18 years ago, 8-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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