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| I'm using Mindstorms to control Lego trains. Does anyone have a design for using a touch sensor to detect a train passing? My intuition is that the touch sensor could be more reliable than the light sensor (plus I have two touch sensors and only one (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Website update - town, trains, Legoland Windsor pics
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| After a good deal of delay I have completed updating my site: (URL) pictures of a trip to Legoland Windsor this summer: (URL) of my recently completed (and then torn down) town layout: (URL) few train pics: (URL) school Technic class pics: (URL) you (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.legoland.windsor, lugnet.general)
| | | | | Re: Boston Transit Fun
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| (...) The best place I can suggest for anyone in the Toronto, Ont area to visit for ideas of light rail equipment is the Halton County Radial Museum, near Rockwood, Ont. First rate, they have lots of ex-TTC stuff, including #4000, the first Toronto (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Boston Transit Fun
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| Over the holidays, I did my usual spend a day shopping in Boston, and did some transit riding. I wish I had brought along my camera though. One station which is very much worth a visit with a camera is Boylston on the Green Line. There is some MOW (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Track Plan Repository
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| Hey all, Using Matt Bates' Track Designer at (URL) possible to come up with all sorts of track plans. Has anyone formed a repository to collect such plans so you can see what others have created? Is this something Perhaps Lugnet or some other (...) (25 years ago, 27-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Pasenger cars
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| Hi, I posted some pictures of my new passenger cars on my home page. Two (equal ones) are in white/red/blue (idee from our Belgian railroad) and one in green (old style passenger car) witch uses the small clear blue windows from the 4560/4561 set. (...) (25 years ago, 27-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: Hiawatha
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| (...) Better than most of your work and almost all the way up to Mediocre? (1) 1 - that's not one word but hey, neither is "looking like..." (25 years ago, 27-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: Hiawatha
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| (...) "Better than 8-wide"? <kidding!> Artistic? Curvaceous? Streamlined? Looking like it's moving 100mph even when it's standing still? John1, GMLTC (25 years ago, 27-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: 8 Wide Train Pics
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| (...) Trouble? It's free, right? What's the trouble - downloading and installing it? In my experience Virtual PC runs about as fast as a PC of half the clock speed of the Mac running it, so you'll be running it about as well as a 150-166 Pentium. (...) (25 years ago, 27-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: 8 Wide Train Pics
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| Hi Jim, My PB is a 1400 with a G3 upgrade running at 216 MHz. The video of a PB 1400 is notoriously slow. So, using it on a G3 300 should work a lot better. I only draw when I feel like moving slowly and relaxing; otherwise being forced to work that (...) (25 years ago, 27-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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