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(...) Hey, where are the trolley poles? It ain't a trolley without trolley poles :) No seriously, nice model. Too bad its not 8 wide ;) Chris (17 years ago, 3-Oct-07, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I covered my 7996 with copper foil tape that I found at Hobby Lobby in their stained glass section. They offer several different widths, all about $5 a roll (which is about 30m of the tape - plenty to do 7996. I was concerned about tinning the (...) (17 years ago, 4-Oct-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Now that is what I call "out of the box" thinking. Tommy Armstrong (17 years ago, 4-Oct-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Hi Eric, Hi Bryan, Hi all, you are right, we are under NDA and I will not comment on any posting either positive or negative about the train announcement. We AFOL insiders will read all theses posts and we will transport any suggestion into our (...) (17 years ago, 4-Oct-07, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thanks, Dave. As a matter of fact... (URL) :-) JOHN (17 years ago, 4-Oct-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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I took some more (URL) better> (sic) pics of my trolley. Some points of interest: One pic has Ross posed in front of it to give an idea of its size. These pics show it posed on some Aristo G scale trucks. The trolley itself is built to about (...) (17 years ago, 4-Oct-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Yup. Old gray. (...) Well, this MOC is actually a digression from my G scale course, because I've basically built it around the dark blue curved slopes. So I think this trolley is about 1:18 scale, or basically miniland scale (1:20). Of (...) (17 years ago, 3-Oct-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) :-) (...) I did say the pic was bad.... Actually, they are old gray. From the Metroliner set:-) (...) Thanks. JOHN (17 years ago, 3-Oct-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Hi all, here some more info: There's no secret in it. It's just an prototype of the 7996 point with adhesive copper tape that i tinned / soldered with a solder iron using solder 60/40, witch means 60% lead and 40% tin. The used copper tape (i (...) (17 years ago, 3-Oct-07, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Any idea how much weight was being pulled? 20 flatcars could be lighter than 20 boxcars. That amount of run time with that many cars does sound promising though. -Elroy (17 years ago, 3-Oct-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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