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(...) I believe I was in contact with Jim before this event, and LUCNY couldn't get the manpower to staff it that weekend. The museum is a great venue, and I live only a half-hour or so away from it, but most of our members are over 2 hours away, (...) (17 years ago, 8-May-07, to lugnet.loc.us.ny, lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Reply from Chris Di MasiRe: Hobby Train & 9V motor
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(...) Paul, I don't think any of your posts have been too critical. Critically evaluating a set is great. Honestly, I feel badly that two of my designs that went out won't quite work with a motor. On the other hand, when I built my trolleycar the (...) (17 years ago, 6-May-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | GG1 10183 Alternate Found on Brickshelf
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Brickshelf user jmcollaco's (URL) gallery> has instructions for a GG1 made only with the parts from a single 10183 set. I built it today and can say it's a great model that adds even more value to the 10183 set. Here's a pic: (URL) I came up with a (...) (17 years ago, 6-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Reply from Chris Di MasiRe: Hobby Train & 9V motor
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(...) --snip-- Hi Tim and Chris, Thanks for the explanations, I suspected these were the type of complexities you guys had to deal with in bringing about this ultimately great set. In retrospect I hope my post didn't sound too critical. Really the (...) (17 years ago, 6-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Reply from Chris Di Masi Re: Hobby Train & 9V motor
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And that should be Chris Masi... not Chris Di Masi. Sorry, Chris. Tim (17 years ago, 5-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Reply from Chris Di MasiRe: Hobby Train & 9V motor
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--snip-- Chris has asked me to post the following as he's having troubles posting to lugnet at the moment Paul and David, Yes, the models were tweaked after they were submitted by the LEGO fans. Most of the tweaks involved removing unsupported (...) (17 years ago, 5-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Hobby Train & 9V motor
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(...) I don't think I'm giving anything away to say that it was the latter but not for that reason. The renders are from earlyish last year, the final models are from much more recently. (...) That is most likely an 'illegal build' technique that (...) (17 years ago, 5-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Hobby Train & 9V motor
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(...) Haven't gotten to that model yet but, for a less drastic example, (URL) #05> (one of my favorites) does require a tweak to add a motor because the 2x6 plate on the base blocks the hole for the motor pin. Easy enough to fix with the left over (...) (17 years ago, 5-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Hobby Train & 9V motor
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I have tried to fit the 9V motor to the Hobby Train Tram. The tram has 2 bogies on 8 studs long, the other 9 studs long. The picture shows the motor, which is 10 studs long, replacing the 8 stud bogie. Therefore the "buffers" have to extend 1 stud (...) (17 years ago, 5-May-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: danish trains for the danish train museum
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In lugnet.trains, Tim David wrote: SNIP (...) Yeah, that IC3 should have been IR4.! sorry. Tim (17 years ago, 4-May-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: danish trains for the danish train museum
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(...) To quote the other Tim several times. "wow, wow, wow" I can't remember the last time I saw such an impressive collection of consistently great trains (and boat!) Somehow you have also managed to get a feeling of 'bulk' with them, I at first (...) (17 years ago, 4-May-07, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Wow. I like them a lot. (URL) This train> is a masterpiece of construction. I really can't remember seeing better SNOT imagery. The rest are all excellent. Please keep it up, Tim (17 years ago, 3-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | danish trains for the danish train museum
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Hello! After a break from building I have been working on some danish trains the last few months. I have them right now for exibition at the danish train museum together with my railferry. All the trains are danish from an old steamtrain to the (...) (17 years ago, 3-May-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 6-wide Canadian Pacific GE ES44AC
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(...) Chris, After building your Prime Mover from the PDF I started in on the loco. I just finished building the loco from the PDF. It was only a little harder than one of James' designs. I had to look up one part in peeron. Also with subassy F (...) (17 years ago, 3-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Northern Pacific SW1200
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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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| | Re: Penobscot Building NMRA 2007 preview
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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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| | Re: Northern Pacific SW1200
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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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| | Re: Penobscot Building NMRA 2007 preview
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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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| | Re: Penobscot Building NMRA 2007 preview
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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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| | Re: LDD PRR T1 #6110
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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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| | Re: LDD PRR T1 #6110
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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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