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(...) Hey Mat, You completed the CZ??? Please share photos. I saw the D&RGW Alcos in the background, but no cars. (...) Wow, them were some impressive trains. I like the 2000 era show photos. Now jumping to your reply to Cale... (...) At least with (...) (16 years ago, 1-Aug-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Thanks for posting pics of these. I was lucky as I saw many of them at the recent NMRA show...my favorite, the Del Monte Packing Building...you captured the building from that era spot on! Great job. Ray Ray Silva socalray@cox.net -----Original (...) (16 years ago, 1-Aug-08, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hi Kerry, Yeah dark blue might be a better choice although my eyes read it as about half way in between from the photos but I trust your real life memory. It's probably possible to do in dark blue but I've certainly not got the funds or (...) (16 years ago, 1-Aug-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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Having spent 3 days on the Indian Pacific last December, I'd probably argue for the use of dark blue rather than the normal blue and some kind of orange rather than the yellow, based on my memory and my happy snaps: (URL) obviously there's an issue (...) (16 years ago, 31-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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(...) Scott, I assume you mean Milwaukee WI. I hate to think that people might be going to the wrong state. (16 years ago, 31-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(URL) NR 28>> Hi all, It's been a long time since I built anything train related but I was in the mood last night and managed to build this baby. It's one of the locos of the Indian-Pacific ((URL)) which operates on the East-West trans-continental (...) (16 years ago, 31-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.loc.au, FTX) !
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(...) The Hopper looks sweet. Lots of great detail. The boxcar looks good too. Cale (URL) (16 years ago, 31-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Here is my latest round of buildings. Some of them were built specifically for the NMRA 2008 show. 7-Eleven (no interior yet) (URL) Books (URL) Boutique (URL) Packing House (URL) 1 (URL) (no interior yet) (URL) Stuff: bread & cheese vendor, turkey (...) (16 years ago, 30-Jul-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.castle, lugnet.org.us.baylug)
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Hello, I just recently completed my new Rio Grande grain hopper and Santa Fe freight car MOCs. The grain hopper was easily my most challenging MOC, but after much head scraping and rebuilding, it finally came out as good as I could have hoped for. (...) (16 years ago, 30-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Thanks Ray, I really wanted to run this on the Bay Area/Southern Pacific combined layout, it seemed symbolic. Mat (16 years ago, 29-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thanks Benn, I had spotted the Daylight while researching long passenger train consists a few years ago, when working on my Caifornia Zephyr train. The DL was beutiful, but seemed impossible to do justice at the time, how would I get all that (...) (16 years ago, 29-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Thanks Dave, Yes, all of the articulation in my train is a riff of whats's shown at the ILTCO presentaion, although I originally found the ideas here on LUGNET first. The shared car articulation is based on work by Steve Barile (URL). The (...) (16 years ago, 29-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Thanks Cale. I agree the GP9 is wrong, but the only "correct" Deisels would be E7A, E8A, E9A or PA2, and E7Bs mix and matched in pairs. But the only PA I own is in Rio Grand colors, and I own no E units. My GP9 is modeled after SP5623, which (...) (16 years ago, 29-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) and I heard we were gonna get free ice cream (ok, it was really dipping dots)...with guys like us, I'm curious to see what the deal was with getting ice cream...we (as a group) could have potentially ate them out of their profit (...) (16 years ago, 28-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Here's my photos: (URL) I'm kicking myself for not getting more pictures of NMRA. --Mike (16 years ago, 28-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Here's my photos: (URL) I don't think it was from lack of cameras that there's not too many photos; I think it was because of the show's proximity to Disneyland, personally. :) I'm kicking myself for not getting more pictures of NMRA. --Mike (16 years ago, 28-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
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(...) Ted: Thanks for the great wrap-up. Sounds like it was a hoot and that LEGO® Trains were well represented. I'm sorry I had to miss it. -Dave ToT-LUG (16 years ago, 28-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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As no one else has posted as of yet, here's a brief report on the NMRA's 2008 National Train Show held earlier this month: Location: Hall D, Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California Dates: Exhibition July 18-20, 2008 Space allocation: 65 x 70 (...) (16 years ago, 28-Jul-08, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX) !
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(...) Yeah. The blue pins bother me, but they don't stand out as much when the car is on a layout. I do think I might try finding a handful of the dark bley technic half pins that came with the Batboat set though. They'll still be seen, but they (...) (16 years ago, 28-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Looks Great ! Shame about those blue technic pins though... Steve (16 years ago, 28-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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