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(...) The build looks great, and big too. (...) I've used brass rod from a hobby shop. Mat (17 years ago, 3-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Jonathan, thanks for the comments. It means a lot comming from you. I more or less like how the Penobscot turned out but it is not as detailed as my previous skyscraper the David Stott building. Of course if you look at the real Penobscot vs (...) (17 years ago, 3-May-07, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Northern Pacific SW1200
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(...) Thanks, Benn. (URL) a picture of the rear>. I choose not to have the handrails at an angle since I felt that it couldn't be properly done. If you can't tell, the rear was inspired in part by Tim Gould's (URL) VO-660>. I've been trying to (...) (17 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | ULUG Train Show from <cough> <cough> March
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To all, Well, ULUG had a great train show in March. I am extremely late getting the pictures posted. I forgot my camera and had to use a family members and then we had a baby ... ULUG has made some really great strides from show-to-show. We have (...) (17 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.org.us.ulug, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, FTX)
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(...) I cheated to flatten the top of the similar handrails on the VO660 buy putting a paperclip inside the flex tube. Tim (17 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Northern Pacific SW1200
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(...) Pretty slick! Very good detail all around and clever tricks abound. I like the spark arresters on the stacks. The rear of the cab looks well detailed, do you have a photo of the rear when it is all together too? The only suggestion I have is (...) (17 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LDD Model of GG-1 Electric Locomotive - Advice Requested
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(...) I wonder if it might be possible to pivot where the two trucks join together. We could have an opening for the pin on the motor trucks to move around in, like you have done with the 3-axle trucks. And instead of the half-pin currently used, (...) (17 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Excellent! Greatly looking forward to seeing this and the others in person! Just stunning. Best, Jonathan (17 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: LDD Model of GG-1 Electric Locomotive - Advice Requested
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(...) NOW you tell me :-) Actually I managed to get it built, but it wasn't easy. (...) That doesn't seem to help, as I did a fresh install of the program last night just for this - my wife's Mac didn't have it installed. (...) OK, I will do that (...) (17 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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| | Re: LDD Model of GG-1 Electric Locomotive - Advice Requested
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(...) Glad that you ordered the GG1! This isn't the first complaint about instructions generation in LDD, unfortunately. I would suggest trying the different instructions modes (there's one for vehicles, buildings, and Technic) to see if you have (...) (17 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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| | Re: Dutch Koploper
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(...) Hi, Paul. I remember seeing the pilot version at GTE and it was fantastic! Do you have any pictures of the entire train? I would love to see the whole thing. I hope that I can attend NMRA 2007 to see them in person. Or perhaps you could bring (...) (17 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Penobscot Building NMRA 2007 preview
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WOW She came out fantastic!Can't wait to see it on the layout!Chris MichLTC (...) (17 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: LDD Model of GG-1 Electric Locomotive - Advice Requested
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(...) Well it has arrived! I downloaded the instructions from legofactory.com and man do they stink! I don't think it is any reflection on the design - the software just isn't doing a very good job of coming up with the steps for creating this (...) (17 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Early 1900's electric tramway
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(URL) Hello, I'm currently working on a 1900's city model (no photo) and built a tramway for that set. But it's too large for the street size?! So I built a smaller one and now the big one is no more usefull. So I could just put it in my stock boxes (...) (17 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Northern Pacific SW1200
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(...) Neat! I really like the sideways-mounted black "car doors" along the sides. Nice details! -Paul D. (17 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | AMCP display at BRICKWORLD 2007
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(URL) Listen up Mecha heads, town folks, and all else. Debuting at <https://registratio...ckworld.us (URL) will the first of many AMCP –Apocalyptic Mecha City Projects. What is the AMCP? The AMCP is a large-scale modular city display with a war-torn (...) (17 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.build.military, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.trains, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Northern Pacific SW1200
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(...) Nice work, Matt. The front light is very clever. Tim (17 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Northern Pacific SW1200
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A while ago Benn Coifman posted a (URL) NP GP9> and I thought it would be cool to have another Northern Pacific loco running around the COLTC layout. I also made it in the NP livery because I had lots of leftover black bricks from my hopper cars (...) (17 years ago, 29-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX) !!
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(...) Dang Jim, you fooled me again. I thought that was a picture of the real building! Spencer (17 years ago, 29-Apr-07, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Penobscot Building NMRA 2007 preview
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Here is a photo of my Penobscot Building which will make its debut at the NMRA National Train Show this July in Detroit, Michigan. (URL) The rest of the pictures (it is about 99% finished): (URL) Never heard of the Penobscot Building? Well it was (...) (17 years ago, 28-Apr-07, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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(...) Very nice work. I had not seen that. Thanks for linking the pics. It definitely helps show the details of the PRR T1, and gives me more ideas for improvements to my Lego® version once I go to build it. (17 years ago, 28-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) How about Ed Wooding's version? Although not in Lego, it is a absolute work of art... (URL) Powell (17 years ago, 28-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | LDD PRR T1 #6110
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For my next LDD MOC, I built a PRR T1 #6110 (4-4-4-4 duplex-drive steam locomotive). I've uploaded it to the Lego® Factory, so once it is approved you can take a closer look. My new BBB wheels arrived in the mail today, so this may be the one that I (...) (17 years ago, 27-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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| | German train. BR103.
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Please, have a look at the new version of BR103. (URL) (17 years ago, 25-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | The Old Dutch Windmill
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Recently, the Northern Illinois Lego Train Club was given a task. For our first show at the Geneva History Center, each of us created a historic building in the town. For my part, I did a model of the town's old dutch windmill, known as the Fabyan (...) (17 years ago, 25-Apr-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains.org.niltc, lugnet.town, lugnet.build, FTX) !!
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| | Re: JR C58-363 Paleo
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(...) A very nice piece of engineering! As usual, I love the details. As someone already noticed on Flickr, the two "shields" on the front seem to be a bit too thick, although I am aware this might be as best as it can get without ruining other (...) (17 years ago, 24-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: ILTCO email down?
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(...) It is fixed now. The ILTCO site had a e-mail change a while back where all of the addresses had to be specifically registered as opposed to using a catch all like we had done in the past. The change helped slow the amount of spam sent to ILTCO (...) (17 years ago, 24-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | ILTCO email down?
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I tried to email ILTCO from their main webpage, which sends emails to feedback@ but my email came back 'Delivery has failed:SMTP server has rejected address' and I have no idea what that means. Is their email not working?? I know this isn't really (...) (17 years ago, 24-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | More buildings for NMRA in Detroit
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Hi All, I completed 3 more building facades completed for Detroit. I think I have two more to go and then I am done. A few highlights: Maerske blue (I used quite a few of the 1x6 inverse slopes to get the 1x1 striping effect in the facade), dark (...) (17 years ago, 23-Apr-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains.org.tcltc) !
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| | Re: LDD slug models
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Just a follow-up to add my latest incarnation of the yard slug, this time in Canadian National colors. You see them working in tandem a lot with EMD GP road-switchers in CN'S larger sorting yards. (URL) I've added a version that is LEGO's standard (...) (17 years ago, 23-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: LDD - MOC Steam Engine inspired by Streamlined Hudson
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After some work this weekend, my LDD 'Streamlined Hudson' has improved quite a bit. I scrapped the first one and created another MOC's with two stylings; a Dreyfuss and the the Empire State Express. The Empire State Express is the one that I am most (...) (17 years ago, 22-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: monorail maintenance?
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(...) Monorail trains just run slow. Just how slow depends on your perspective. I just ran two sets of monorail at the NASM (National Air and Space Museum) yesterday. The new monorail set I just acquired last weekend seemed to move a bit faster than (...) (17 years ago, 22-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Controlling trains with NXT?
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(...) Indeed, Steve Hassenplug & I did exactly this at BrickFest 2005 with the GBC trains - we had two trains running around a single loops, but in this case used four isolated sections so that each side fo the loop was under the complete control of (...) (17 years ago, 22-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Dutch Koploper
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After a (too) long hiatus of train building, I am back. I build the Dutch "Koploper". (URL) I build 4 head (=engine) sections, and 4 passenger cars, I will take it to NMRA 2007 for its inaugural run. A pilot version ran at the GTE Columbus show, but (...) (17 years ago, 22-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | JR C58-363 Paleo
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(5 URLs) BS> (when modded) (URL) Flickr> Hi all, After reading Ben's article about building steam trains I decided to try out my new BBB wheels and build one in real life (thus making sure it could run around curves). I'd seen a few Japanese (...) (17 years ago, 22-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.loc.jp, FTX) !
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| | Re: Controlling trains with NXT?
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(...) Block control was fairly common on model train layouts before DCC and other digital solutions became available. If you do a google search for "block control" you should find a few references. Yours is a variant of that. It works, but as you (...) (17 years ago, 22-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Controlling trains with NXT?
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As some of you are probably aware, there are people who use DCC controls that allow them to operate two trains independantly on the same stretch of track. This system, however, requires that you hack open motor bogeys to install the DCC control (...) (17 years ago, 21-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: monorail maintenance?
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(...) Firstly, how heavy is your train? You've got a battery-powered, gear-driven drive system that doesn't run very fast under the best conditions, so unless you strip it down to the bare essentials (one sled, one motor, one battery box, and just (...) (17 years ago, 22-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | monorail maintenance?
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I'm coming into the monorail world late and have been acquiring track and parts on Bricklink. I have two motors and both seem to run very slowly. They really seem to labor going up-hill. I haven't run the engines enough to believe I might have burnt (...) (17 years ago, 22-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: LDD - MOC Steam Engine inspired by Streamlined Hudson
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--snip-- (...) --snip-- Hi Ted, Just a quick word of warning... I've never tested this one in real life so there's not guarantee the solution I have there works. It seemed to work out in CAD but real life is the ultimate decider. Tim (17 years ago, 20-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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