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Can anyone offer assistance (pointers, instuctions, pictures) in building a good steam engine. I have a 7722 engine, but want something a bit bigger. Jimmy (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Check out my town and train links at: (URL) is a section on non-revenue cars which has several MOW vehicles (and anyone who isn't listed, feel free to respond to this thread and I will add your page). Also check out the general "Train Cars" (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) How does the "scale" work? I have this set too, but I have a hard time opening brand new unopened sets... :) Bryan (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) bricks long and the tender is an additional 33 bricks, making a grand total of 97 bricks. The wheel arrangement for a Big Boy is 4-8-8-4 plus another 7 axels on the tender. There is a picture of a very early prototype on my web site, but I (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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Hey, what does WAMALUG stand for? It is fun to say... Chris (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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Michael, I purchased 4 of these today at the local Zany Brainy, and just finished putting one of them together. I am very happy with it. I've not had alot of experience with trains, but this set seems to have alot of interesting parts. My one nit so (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) after (...) I stopped by my local ZB last night and, much to my dismay, they were out of the 4565. The lady I spoke with said they were quite popular. They did happen to have a 4559 behind the counter that I noticed. When I asked, another lady (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) after (...) Just found out that Zany Brainy has a 20% off one LEGO item sale starting this Sunday. Does anyone know whether this can be combined with the 4565 at $99 offer? Also, somewhat off-topic, how long will the Shuttles be marked down to (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Do you like monorails?
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(...) Heh, here in Canada. Myself (28) and my wife (31) go buy lego all the time. We get asked the same questions. "Oh, is this for your ____?" Nope, I say it's for my Wife. GRIN. She has almost every Castle set ever. She has all the Adventurers (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: WAMALUG Train Pics
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Well that crossing is just SICK ;-) (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: What is the largest lego steam engine ever built?
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(...) total number of wheels, then. -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) LOL! I love the pink level crossing! Is the young lady in the lounger the crossing staff? Kevin (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: RCX Output (Train applications)
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This sounds interesting, but trying to understand it in the middle of class has my head swimming ;-) Any chance of diagrams and pics? I ust picked up my first trains and RIS last week, so I want to hook them together and have some fun with my cats (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains)
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(...) is (...) I think I remember the price being something like $159.99 when I bought on at TRU in 1993. (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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The Mayfield Hts, Ohio store had them on sale for $99. I bought 4 of them :) There were still some (3) left, so if anyone in the area wants them, better get there soon. Troy Tom Stangl <toms@netscape.com> wrote in message (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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Note: you can sort of make out the black metroliner and white metroliner coach in these pics: (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Ponte Vecchio - Elevated Road Bridge Over Rail
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Thanks, Gary, for the interesting bits about the bridge in Florence. (Got to get my cities straight.) I also looked at Eric J's pictures, neato. I'm going to start a "journal" format web page for this project. The first two pictures are at (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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Scott E. Sanburn wrote: <SNIP> LOL I think I would have said the same thing. I often buy lego and when they ask me if I want it wrapped in paper, I say no. Then they look strange at me, but don´t say anything (I´m 14, so I still can buy lego without (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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Ben Fleskes might have this honor in all catagories! if you look close you can see Ben's SP&S 700 (URL) at his web site under SP&S 700 (URL) new Daylight is also a master piece! (URL) I think that the engine should actually work (around curves "C" (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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We have some pictures of the layout we put together at our build-a-thon a few weeks ago. They haven't been uploaded to the site yet, but you can check them out at (URL) to Dan and Jen for the pics. -Chris Here's a description of the pics: (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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