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(...) ... (...) ... (...) Looks like a great model! I just bought one (black, without motors) and will report back when I get it built. In fact this is the first time I've ordered someone's model from LEGO Factory. I am amazed at how smooth the (...) (17 years ago, 16-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Train Station made from Corner Café
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(...) Great stuff Ted! I also purchased the café, which in my opnion does indeed contains the right pieces for a classic-looking station. I was actually thinking of buying a 2nd set to make a 'Grand Station', you did beat me on the idea of a station (...) (17 years ago, 16-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Help with Orient Express...?
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(...) Thanks 'other' Tim! Unfortunately I had already purchased the green wagons (5 of them!). So now I'm not too sure whether I should just go on with these... That'll learn me for being too quick in ordering & not researching a bit more in (...) (17 years ago, 16-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Help with Orient Express...?
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(...) Nah, isn't my site. Bought their Sik shunter. It's very famous here in the Netherlands. It have been around since 1930 and is still(!) used (the real deal: (URL) (17 years ago, 16-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Some models completed
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(...) I must say yours looks a LOT better than mine which was designed and built in a rush a few days before the Petersfield show. I was planning to greeble it a bit for the next show but I don't think its worth it now :) (URL) also love the look of (...) (17 years ago, 16-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Help with Orient Express...?
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(...) I like the Orient Express coaches there. I like the whole idea of the site although I'm never convinced how big the market is for custom models, but hopefully I'll be proved wrong! Is it your site? I also like the (URL) loco> Tim PS you should (...) (17 years ago, 16-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Hello all. I am another AFOL that has just come out of a long hibernation for trains... after reading all the info last year on needing to Save 9V Trains, I thought I better get on board before it was too late... When I went to S@H to get the new (...) (17 years ago, 16-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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(...) And I thought I new all of James' full rakes... obviously not. Nice work, James. Tim (17 years ago, 16-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Help with Orient Express...?
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<snipped> Oh, and then there is of course James Mathis' wonderfull Orient Express: (URL) (17 years ago, 16-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Hi all, Blokbricks ((URL) and click on Brick Express) will be selling a OE Dining Carriage ((URL) and OE Lounge-Bar Carriage ((URL) Maybe you can use the pictures for inspiration. Or just wait and buy them! Jeroen (17 years ago, 16-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: A Cool Viaduct
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(...) bit surprised to hear about the part placement issues. I cannot duplicate these problems on my end (I tried downloading the models from the website, then opening them... everything seems to be fine.) If you are encountering problems with the (...) (17 years ago, 16-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Help with Orient Express...?
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(...) Oh and adding some thin yellow lines along the coaches would add to the Orient Express look. Tim (17 years ago, 16-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) My advice, if you haven't already bought the sets, would be to see if you can get the (URL) blue version> of the coaches. The Orient Express coaches are all blue for the sleepers and blue below and a light cream above for the day coaches and (...) (17 years ago, 16-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Hi Laurent, Firstly I think that it really depends what style of layout you want to have. If you just want something that looks vaguely like an Orient Express but made from LEGO then you probably should just find pictures from movies and the (...) (17 years ago, 15-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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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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(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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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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(...) 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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(...) 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 (17 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 (...) (17 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... (...) (17 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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 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 (17 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 (...) (17 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 (17 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 (17 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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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 (17 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. (17 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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 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 (17 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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