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Hi all, As a recent convertee to five-wide containers I'm really curious what dimensions other people working with that width use. At present I'm using a 5x12 footprint (or larger multiples of six for larger containers), a main height of 5 bricks (...) (18 years ago, 19-May-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LDD Model of GG-1 Electric Locomotive - Advice Requested
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(...) Bruce Chamberlain postulated that the problem is due to one of the 3-axle trucks being *pushed* through the curve rather than pulled. I suspect that a rubber band between the two 3-axle trucks would help - I will try that sometime. --Bill. (18 years ago, 19-May-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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| | Re: FRED- flashing rear end device
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(...) Solution: don't put the light on the end. Put the light interior to the container, and pipe it to the end using a fiber-optic piece. The size of the flasher (about the size of a stud) would then be more correct, and it could be hidden about as (...) (18 years ago, 19-May-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: FRED- flashing rear end device
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(...) Thank you. And don't forget that the non-electric version is a lot less obtrusive, (URL) (...) Grin (18 years ago, 19-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: The Tequila Sunrise
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(...) Sure, yellow is prototypical... (URL) the yellow and gray are backwards, real life can't get everything right) Now as for doing it in dark gray, if you want to say it hit a few rocks thrown by the children along the line, you could use the top (...) (18 years ago, 19-May-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: The Tequila Sunrise
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(...) No, it would be too cool for the world to comprehend! Best to keep an eye out for Jesus while we're there;-) (...) Here's hoping so:-) JOHN (18 years ago, 18-May-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: LDD Model of GG-1 Electric Locomotive - Advice Requested
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(...) It's also not hinged to another truck; it only has to rotate around its center point. Being attached to the motor truck, the 3-axle trucks in the GG1 are being pulled a little bit off center as the wheels go into the curve, and I think that's (...) (18 years ago, 18-May-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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| | Re: The Tequila Sunrise
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(...) Yes, I caught the typo right after I posted... sigh. What I meant to say is that not all the parts came in grey, which is the original color for this locomotive (the original color was actually dark grey, but the 4x4 dome piece doesn't come in (...) (18 years ago, 18-May-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: The Tequila Sunrise
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(...) Thanks, John! Coming from you I consider that high praise. With any luck you'll be able to see it with stickers at Brickworld*. But could the world survive the bringing together of two Polar Express on the same display table? Thanks for the (...) (18 years ago, 18-May-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LDD Model of GG-1 Electric Locomotive - Advice Requested
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(...) My (URL) breakdown crane> has 3 axle trucks using standard LEGO wheelsets, and traverses points just fine, although it does have 4 weight bricks holding it down. ROSCO (18 years ago, 18-May-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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(...) A brief update ... I got it built a while ago but only today tried putting it on the tracks. Bad news, I'm afraid. To make it work on LEGO curves, you need to remove the 4x6 tile with technic peg from the 3-axle trucks and add some tiles (...) (18 years ago, 18-May-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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| | Re: The Tequila Sunrise
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(...) [...] (...) Pretty nifty indeed. But yellow? I'll assume that this (...) was supposed to mean that all of the parts that you needed came in yellow, so that's the color you chose? Mmmm.... tequila.... Chris (18 years ago, 17-May-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: The Tequila Sunrise
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(...) It's another Tequila sunrise! No, wait, this is the first one! Wow, that's as impressive a MOC as it is brightly colored, Tony! You've captured the streamlined twenties look very well-- nice and clean, and well-rounded. It looks fast just (...) (18 years ago, 17-May-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: FRED- flashing rear end device
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In lugnet.trains, Benn Coifman wrote: <snippage> (...) Good work, Benn! I had wanted to do the same thing with my Huskey Stacks, but I was deterred by the cumbersome LEGO lighting. I think I'll just stick with my hidden light trick on my Bethgon:-) (...) (18 years ago, 17-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Who has made LDD truck/bogie designs?
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I know that people have come up with some creative truck/bogie designs for their rolling stock. So maybe we could collect a bunch of them so that builders could choose from a variety of designs. I thought of this because I was considering updating (...) (18 years ago, 17-May-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: FRED- flashing rear end device
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(...) I like this idea - it adds a nice bit of realism to modern train consists! Too bad Lego lighting wasn't smaller, but for what you had to work with, vool job for sure! And I just saw a History Channel show on trains and they said that trainmen (...) (18 years ago, 17-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: The Tequila Sunrise
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(...) Thanks! I love Flickr, it's really helped the building process when it comes to things like these. There aren't too many shopes that carry the 4x4 dome piece I used around, but they are there. (URL) Thanks for the reply! --Tony (18 years ago, 17-May-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The Tequila Sunrise
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(...) Thanks! The stickers I intend to add won't do much to change the overall look, they'll mainly just be adding text too small to have been created through LEGO means. I had some reservations with the color scheme, but it was different so I went (...) (18 years ago, 17-May-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: The Tequila Sunrise
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(...) Thanks! It helps that I gave up and spent the money on a good camera and a good lighting set up, after years of trial and error trying to make what little I had on hand work. This locomotive was a fun build, but a real pain to photograph given (...) (18 years ago, 17-May-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | FRED- flashing rear end device
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(URL) FRED- Flashing Rear End Device (URL) Full Gallery> (once moderated) Inspired by one of John Neil's hopper cars with an integrated FRED, I set out to build my own for the double stacks. It took me a while to actually get one of the smaller (...) (18 years ago, 17-May-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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