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(...) Toss the 4561 shroudplate as it's not going to be much help. Build your engine frame from plates and use a technic plate as a place to pivot your trucks. Or use the red wagon plate still available from S@H if you like red... This question (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | 2126 Missing Pieces?
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I received a couple of 2126 ((URL) this week and assembled the first one last night. This is the first LEGO set that I have had that is missing pieces. It is missing two (a black ladder and a black 1x4 plate with hinge fingers) and has a few extra (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Do decals come off?
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Thanks for all the info. (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Longest train...
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(...) I know very little about model trains sooooo, what is HEP? (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Do decals come off?
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(...) I'd be cautious about using any sort of soluvant to remove stickers. I used some "goo-gone" or something like that to remove the sticker goo on the back of a CD case and ended up having the stuff eat the cd case! (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Yesterday I picked up a second 4559, next on the agenda (soon) two or three 4561s...the car chassis from the 4559s will be turned into TTX type flatcars and the passenger cars from 4561s will be "modified to create better looking passenger cars...my (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | 9v idea book: expanding on what I said earlier
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There is going to be one hard and fast rule for this book. All models for which instructions are shown have to use elements that have been used by TLG in a recent set that people are likely to be able to get. This is an idea book so everything we (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 9v train idea book: I might be making one, anyone interested?
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(...) Yes. Rendered images a re not appropriate for building instructions. (...) I didn't know that. Dont you need to have an IR tower to do that though? (...) I have had some very bad experiences in the past with povray and I have sworn that I wont (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Train nose-pieces
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In lugnet.trains, John Neal writes: <slight snippage> (...) But for that you've got to use ldraw... and we all know what kind of computer runs ldraw best, don't we.. :) K.M. ..just pokin' at the hornets' nest... (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I have a video clip of it in the 72 car version, the present one just has more cars...however, I cannot get it up on my geocities account, and have been too busy to get my Roadrunner account page setup. As for Ben's question, a mixture, with (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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