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(...) My hero ;-) But there are 5 carriages, not 3! I ride this every day to work, and I've been wondering how on earth to turn it into a MoC (which I'm terrible at in any case). I just wonder if you modeled the interiors differently - there are (...) (16 years ago, 5-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains)
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The San Diego Coaster. (URL) After moderation (URL) The engine is a F40PH-2C, and the cars are Bi-level coaches by Bombardier. It's been modeled before, but I wanted to use a more accurate color (dark turquoise ) and build longer cars. The train was (...) (16 years ago, 4-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains) !
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(...) I suspect that on these plates and the 16x32 baseplate, someone must have slipped a decimal point. If they seriously are charging $20 for a train base...they're nuts. -Dave (16 years ago, 4-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) I'm including images of the buffers: (2 URLs) Well these parts are horrible, I model mostly US trains. And I'm not interested in having my coupler combined with a buffer. I mosly use this part (URL) or this (URL) and toss the regular buffers (...) (16 years ago, 4-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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----- Original Message ---- From: Jeramy Spurgeon <beatnik303@hotmail.com> To: lugnet.trains@lugnet.com Sent: Friday, April 4, 2008 2:59:04 PM Subject: Re: New Elements on Factory? (...) --snip-- (...) Anybody else notice that the train baseplates (...) (16 years ago, 4-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) --snip-- (...) Anybody else notice that the train baseplates jumped up to $20.00 and $25.00!!!???? -Jeramy (16 years ago, 4-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Train coupler designs was Re: New Elements on Factory?
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(...) I used a similar technique in the past, though I can't find a hyperlink to the solution (which was not mine, I think Chris Masi's). It worked rather well, though the main problem that I encountered was the frictionless pins slipping out of the (...) (16 years ago, 4-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) Well... here's a technic coupler which has the same range of movement, almost the same dimensions and is rotationally symmetric. (URL) I've cross-posted this to .technic in case the good people there can come up with something smaller and/or (...) (16 years ago, 3-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) Or indeed the LEGO problem, back in the good old days of 4.5V trains. (At least LEGO had the magnets in colour coded mounts, though). Cheers Richie Dulin (16 years ago, 3-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) This is my guess. The magnet looks like it might spin and pivot so it might still work. My guess is that it will have to work otherwise they would have to have 2 different buffers, one front and one Back. -Eric (16 years ago, 3-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) <>> (...) Could it be for this reason? (URL) link> (warning Stajinaria link, may contain swearing, rudeness and other behaviour unallowed on LUGNET). Tim (16 years ago, 3-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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It looks like all, or most of the expanded palette including the space palette is online. Lots of new parts up there. Grey minifigs, police and viking torsos, crossbows, suitcases, skulls, armor, skeletons, cupboards, new heads, new colors of chairs (...) (16 years ago, 3-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) I see what you mean about the buffers, although I assume you mean the magnet that is hard mounted. The ability to pivot to allow the correct polarity to face outwards if vital really, otherwise you end up with the Brio problem of having to (...) (16 years ago, 3-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) I see what you mean about the buffers, although I assume you mean the magnet that is hard mounted. The ability to pivot to allow the correct polarity to face outwards if vital really, otherwise you end up with the Brio problem of having to (...) (16 years ago, 3-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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I'm usually not on Factory/Pick-a-Brick, but have been this week. In just the past couple of days, it looks like they've made some changes to the train elements: Added Train Buffer 2 (Design ID: 64422, Category: Transportation Means, Trains) Prepack (...) (16 years ago, 3-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Hi all, I don't know how many of you use Flickr for train MOC pictures but I'm just reminding/alerting you to the LEGO Trains group over there ((URL) so that you can join and add photos if you are a user. I think there's a few users there who don't (...) (17 years ago, 3-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) That would have been a heck of a book. Benn (17 years ago, 2-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) (URL) was featured in a graphic on the LEGO trains website for a while, in the section where it featured ideas on building your own trackside structures. This website seems to have been superseded by the LEGO Hobby Trains website. By the way, (...) (17 years ago, 31-Mar-08, to lugnet.trains)
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(URL) RAILBRICKS is now accepting instructions submissions for inclusion on the (URL) RAILBRICKS website>. We hope to eventually provide the largest repository of train related LEGO build instructions available for free on the web. Each submission (...) (17 years ago, 31-Mar-08, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish.railbricks, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.inst, FTX) !
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We've gathered a lot of steam for this year's train presence at Brickworld! The following clubs will be represented this year with many other individual layouts as well TCLTC - Twin Cities LEGO Train Club MichianaLTC - Michiana LEGO Train Club (...) (17 years ago, 31-Mar-08, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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(...) Thanks Mike. I'd love to use your PHP snippet, in case the solution I am currently using doesn't work. I stumbled upon this website:(URL) that allows you to generate a feed from any dynamic page. It seems to be working fine, though the 'free' (...) (17 years ago, 31-Mar-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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"Tim David" <talltim@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:JyHr8H.J7M@lugnet.com... (...) Jake McKee could give you the complete story on them but here is what I know. These models were built for a never produced LEGO Train Catalog. At some point they (...) (17 years ago, 30-Mar-08, to lugnet.trains)
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"Eric Kingsley" <kingsley@nelug.org> wrote in message news:JyCtqy.459@lugnet.com... (...) 4 - 5 years ago when Steve B., Huw M., HoMA, and I were asked to comment on the forthing coming RC train we had a conversation with the LEGO technical people (...) (17 years ago, 30-Mar-08, to lugnet.trains)
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"Ross Crawford" <ross.{mylastname}@gmail.com> wrote in message news:JxqrzF.13E@lugnet.com... (...) I apologize for the delayed response on this subject, I have been on vacation for the last couple of weeks and ended waaaaaaay behind on e-mail and (...) (17 years ago, 30-Mar-08, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Dear LEGO: Please don't screw up this new train system like you screwed up the color change. We need something that can run multiple trains (GMLTC has 7 operating loops on our layout.), something that can pull long / heavy trains, something (...) (17 years ago, 29-Mar-08, to lugnet.trains)
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I'm sure many of you will have seen these pics in the ILTCO gallery, but they were new to me. I found them through a post on Bricklink, does anyone know the story behind them? (3 URLs) Tim (17 years ago, 29-Mar-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | RichLug Display at VA Aviation Museum 2008
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Great to see some activity on the Trains newsgroup today! We will post new photos of Tim's Virginia State Capitol, designed by Thomas Jefferson, and soon (hopefully) to be displayed at our State Capitol. This year we have a much smaller display at (...) (17 years ago, 29-Mar-08, to lugnet.org.us.richlug, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.town, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) I'm intrigued by this. I did a similar experiment using a 8.4v NiCad Battery and a monorail train. Whenever the train was stopped at the station, some metal brushes would contact between the the battery and track side connections. Thus (...) (17 years ago, 28-Mar-08, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Seems to me that train style PF RX/TX pair will be a perfect technology to reintroduce the monorail system with! Even if LEGO doesn't do this. I see it adding new value to my monorail system. MOnorail was always a bit limited by the lack of (...) (17 years ago, 28-Mar-08, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I just want to say that there are some REALLY innovative ideas being thrown around here. All this talk of automated recharging on sidings and automated points is just making me giddy. Keep the ideas coming!!! -Dave (17 years ago, 28-Mar-08, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Sure - but then it's not automated. You have to get the first train onto the siding, or (if it was running around the track through the siding in the first place) you have to throw the switch so any other train bypasses the siding on the main (...) (17 years ago, 28-Mar-08, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Please do that, it seems like a VERY interesting idea! When I read it it was one of those "but of course, I should have thought of that myself!"-moments :) It should, though, be possible to have the possibility to manually control the train's (...) (17 years ago, 28-Mar-08, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Well, I may be missing something, but why not? PF connectors will stack, so you could connect a bunch of PF battery boxes in parallel, and stack a bunch of PF motors off each output (again, in parallel). While this should be possible, I'm not (...) (17 years ago, 28-Mar-08, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I'm in two minds about the new version. Its better, but because its better the proportions should be more , errr, proportionate. The first version was on the (highly detailed) borderline of in the style of an official Lego train and so the (...) (17 years ago, 28-Mar-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) From a train point of view, not an issue, simply have a loop (in the UK railway sense of the term. i.e. a double ended siding) and have another train bypass the charging train. tim (17 years ago, 28-Mar-08, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) That sounds interesting, although thinking about it from the standpoint of robotics & robotic trains even more ideas are presenting themselves to me. I'm not sure how this would work with trains... if a discharging train hits a power section (...) (17 years ago, 28-Mar-08, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) You need to get some proper locos, with two cabs and some nice smooth bodywork between ;-) Tim (17 years ago, 28-Mar-08, to lugnet.trains)
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--snip-- (...) --snip-- I would hope the box would be black too but I suspect the first PFS trainset will determine its colour (or colours if we're really lucky). Remember, though, that a lot can be concealed in the cab of a train leaving no more (...) (17 years ago, 28-Mar-08, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Excellent idea, even if it means extending the battery by another two+ studs lengthwise. Another permutation to consider would be instead of recessing a half plate on each side, to make it a full plate thinner on both sides so that any surface (...) (17 years ago, 28-Mar-08, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Here are my 2c on the entire thread thus far, I'm still concerned that the 4 wide battery is too wide to conceal in the hood of a 6 wide mode of a typical American road switcher (i.e., just about every American locomotive built since 1968). I (...) (17 years ago, 28-Mar-08, to lugnet.trains)
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