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(...) Cool, but I did you ever tell us about this one (which shares a gallery with your concertina wagon)? (URL) is also very nice, and I don't think I've seen 1x3 bricks with bow used that way before. Thanks for the inspiration, Chris (17 years ago, 20-May-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim)
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| | Re: LDD PRR T1 #6110
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(...) Per above, I have added a bit more detailing to my LDD model. I added side steps and rails to the cab's side "doors". I extended the tender and added an access ladder and some marklights on the back... I would ideally use 1X3 smooth curves on (...) (17 years ago, 20-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Concertina wagon... and a whole lot of SNOT
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(URL) Hi all, This remarkably plain wagon has a deadly secret inside... it's filled with SNOT!!!! I wanted to do the concertina effect very subtly which meant half plate differences in two directions at once in addition to the half plate height (...) (17 years ago, 20-May-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX) !
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| | What size do you build your five-wide containers?
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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 (...) (17 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. (17 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 (...) (17 years ago, 19-May-07, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thank you. And don't forget that the non-electric version is a lot less obtrusive, (URL) (...) Grin (17 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 (...) (17 years ago, 19-May-07, to lugnet.trains)
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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 (17 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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 years ago, 18-May-07, to lugnet.trains)
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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 (...) (17 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 (17 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 (...) (17 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 (17 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 (...) (17 years ago, 17-May-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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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:-) (...) (17 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 (...) (17 years ago, 17-May-07, to lugnet.trains)
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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 (...) (17 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 (17 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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 years ago, 17-May-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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Nicely done Tony. I snuck in a few peeks on the Flickr page last week, and saw that it was really coming together. Turned out great. The cow-catcher came out very well using that method. I'm still dabbling with my Hudson streamline concepts... I (...) (17 years ago, 16-May-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: The Tequila Sunrise
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(...) Great! Creates this nice envious 'want THAT too...'-feeling inside :-) It is okay to add stickers, but already not necessary, since it actually looks fully developed. Also the colour scheme is ok, it reminds a little bit of a comic style. (...) (17 years ago, 16-May-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: The Tequila Sunrise
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(...) ... Hi, I'm guilty of never finding time to post feedback. Be assured that, with or without stickers, I greatly appreciate the originality of your trains MOCs and the care you take to present them to us through photos of quality. Didier (17 years ago, 16-May-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | The Tequila Sunrise
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Here's my latest steam engine I've been working on. It's lacking stickers, but someday I'll find a printer that can print decent stickers from home. Till then I'll have to wait till I can find the time to borrow the use of my father's printer. (2 (...) (17 years ago, 16-May-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Kuranda Scenic Railway v2
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(...) It looks damn close to the original and I like the engine compartment detailing :) It looks to me like it is backwards but I'm used to some of the older UK stock that is controlled from the back. (17 years ago, 15-May-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Upcoming Train Show and LUG Meeting
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To all, ULUG will be having our monthly meeting at the Scout Jamborall where we will be displaying our train layout. The layout will run from Saturday May 19th at 9 am to 3 pm. The directions are as follow: Weber County Fairgrounds in Ogden, Utah. (...) (17 years ago, 15-May-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.ulug)
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| | Anyone free for dinner on Wed. May 16, 2007?
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Hi, all.... I'm in Minneapolis for a convention through Wednesday afternoon, but my flight back home leaves at 9:15 pm. Is anyone in the downtown area (I'm staying at the Millenium) who would like to meet up for an early dinner or a drink? You can (...) (17 years ago, 15-May-07, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.people)
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| | Kuranda Scenic Railway v2
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(...) --snip-- (...) (2 URLs) BS> (URL) Flickr> I finally got the pieces together to build the loco in the parent post (and most of one wagon). Since I'm more experienced now than I was a year and a half ago I've made a number of small changes but (...) (17 years ago, 15-May-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | Re: NedTrain 700 class shunter
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(...) Hey, Tim. Great loco! The lime color scheme is very nice. My only complaint would be the lime slopes. It looks, to me, from the prototype, that the sides are flat. Would it be possible to use tiles instead? Or are you just trying to show off (...) (17 years ago, 12-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Northern Pacific SW1200
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(...) Thanks for the suggestion, Mat. I'm going to pic up some waterslide decals at the hobby shop later so I'll make sure to get some brass rod while I am there. I came up with a solution for the hand rails on the rear of the cab, (URL) here> it (...) (17 years ago, 12-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: NedTrain 700 class shunter
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(...) I think you should have used dark green... I'm glad you got it built after I distracted you. I'm not 100% convinced by some of the details, but its still so much better than I could could do I'm not going to complain. The slopes to give detail (...) (17 years ago, 11-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) I can't believe you used bley on that one. It totally clashes with all the warm colors. Jeff (17 years ago, 11-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: NedTrain 700 class shunter
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(...) Thanks. (...) Definitely a 6 ;) I think its maximum width is probably a bit over 7 studs at the top of the siderails. Also... I forgot to link in the first post to the (URL) prototype>. Tim (17 years ago, 11-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: NedTrain 700 class shunter
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Looks very good! ...for a train ; ) the angles and colours are both very well chosen and the overall effect is very pleasing on the eye! God Bless, Nathan Now is this a 6 wide or 8 wide... ; ) (URL) (17 years ago, 11-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | NedTrain 700 class shunter
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(2 URLs) BS> (URL) Flickr> Hi guys, Decided to have a play with a NedTrain 700 class as I liked the colours and loved the device on the front. I took a little artistic license with the side doors to make them a bit more clear and also had to change (...) (17 years ago, 11-May-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | Re: Reply from Chris Di MasiRe: Hobby Train & 9V motor
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(...) Chris, Thanks for the reply explaining what has happened. That was very helpful. I think the Hobby Trains are great - it would be nice to see other designs/LDD files using the same parts. David (17 years ago, 10-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Looking for Train Contact in New York
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(...) Ed, On a similar note, if you ever get requests for any upstate New York events that might need manpower, let me know. Though I'm a NELUGer (NELUGite?), I'm probably as close to New York as I am to most of the NELUG events (I'm in southwestern (...) (17 years ago, 8-May-07, to lugnet.loc.us.ny, lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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