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(...) I think someone needs to just go to some plastics manufacturers (molding, 3d printing, whatever) and say "this is what we want, how much would it cost for a mold or design and how much would it cost per unit" I think that if someone said "We (...) (15 years ago, 28-Sep-09, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) snarky comment #1: What, no PF? snarky comment #2: aren't you just trapsing all over Cale's territory (first Erie, now PRR)? Seriously though, slick stuff! And that tender looks like a sheer exercise in brute force to make the skirting work. (...) (15 years ago, 28-Sep-09, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) The simple solution that I would envision would be lego compatible ties that work with some off the shelf model railroad rail stock. That would keep the lego gauge, eliminate the need to put metal on plastic (beyond slipping ties on to the (...) (15 years ago, 28-Sep-09, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(URL) Full gallery, including a year and a half's worth of progress photos, available (URL) HERE>. Pennsylvania Railroad T1 Duplex (4-4-4-4) Steam Engine #5544, one of the Sharks of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The powerful PRR T1 steam engines were (...) (15 years ago, 28-Sep-09, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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(...) There has been a lot of DISCUSSION on molding new track, but what we need is an actual demonstration of a technique that works and produces a real product. Anyone producing good quality 9V LEGO compatible track will find that there is a (...) (15 years ago, 27-Sep-09, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) During the last year I got a lot of experiences in 3d printing. I think that can be an alternative to molding since that is very costly. Take a look at my results for minifigs at: (URL) the same technique it should be possible to mold also new (...) (15 years ago, 27-Sep-09, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Hey, thanks for the info. It works. Peace, Stephen J. Hjellum (15 years ago, 24-Sep-09, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Instead of clicking on the file to open it, right-click and do a "save as". You could also be sure that you have .LDR, .MPD and .DAT files associated with your editor (probably MLcad). That way you DO still have the ability to just click and (...) (15 years ago, 23-Sep-09, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Hey everybody, I am new to LUGNET. One thing I want to understand is about brickshelf. Is there a way to get the actual .dat and .ldr files from brickshelf. It wont work for me. Can somebody help me with this? (15 years ago, 23-Sep-09, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Thanks Scott. Coming from a diesel modeler of your caliber I take that as high praise. I will model anything that interests me and love all eras of railroading. Steam engines and steam era railroading is more interesting to me than more modern (...) (15 years ago, 23-Sep-09, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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That's a lot of red white and blue! Love the engine details of the locomotive. Does this mean that you have seen the light and been converted to a Diesel modeler? Scott (15 years ago, 22-Sep-09, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Norfolk & Western Bicentennial Train In celebration of the United States Bicentennial in 1976 many railroad painted equipment in special Bicentennial colors. The Norfolk & Western Railway wasn't content with painting just a locomotive and maybe a (...) (15 years ago, 19-Sep-09, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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Due to a family emergency I need to sell my NEW IN BOX LEGO Collection. The higher end items are being put on ebay and you can see the rest here: (URL) These are all NEW IN BOX on eBay Star Wars #4483 AT-AT (URL) Star Wars #4482 AT-TE (URL) Star (...) (15 years ago, 9-Sep-09, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Due to a family emergency I need to sell my NEW IN BOX LEGO Collection. The list is very long to list here so I'm only going to list the themes that are available and give you a link to where you can see full details, images and more. Adventure Sets (...) (15 years ago, 9-Sep-09, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.western, lugnet.sports, lugnet.starwars, FTX)
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(URL) full gallery> At Brickworld 2009 my table backed up to the (URL) folks. I got to talking with them and the (URL) eLite Jr. kit> was just neato cool. Okay, the eLights in general are neato cool, but at $20, the Jr was actually starting to be (...) (15 years ago, 5-Sep-09, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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(...) It appears that Cafepress.com is still selling the (large) print versions of the 'Trains of Brick' poster (one of the posters on the old digitalbricks.nl website) 17" x 11" (URL) x 22" (URL) Cheers, J.P. Manalo (15 years ago, 4-Sep-09, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thanks! All of these posters are great. I had downloaded the 2003 Trainposter when it was new and still have it. Even at 8.5 X 11 size, it's great to show people when explaining LEGO trains. It would be nice to see a poster of all of the 9V (...) (15 years ago, 1-Sep-09, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) (15 years ago, 1-Sep-09, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I've been looking for this poster as well. It's the one that was originally on digialbricks.nl, which no longer seems to be active. I've been looking for a few months without luck. I wonder if it's time to create a new one? The original was (...) (15 years ago, 31-Aug-09, to lugnet.trains)
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Sorry that's not the Train Poster I was thinking about. It's this one on the home page of the ILTCO site. (...) (15 years ago, 31-Aug-09, to lugnet.trains)
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