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I shot a few pictures of my own at the Sunday session of the train show and picked out a few of my favorites to post. Check them out at my Brickshelf gallery page: (URL) will write up a short blurb in a while to give more details on the show and on (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.org, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.va)
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| | Re: WAMALUG Train Show Pictures
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(...) Beautiful, I can't wait to see the photos of the rolling stock, incidentally, when are you guys going to take "The Great WAMALUG Train Show" on the road... think Greenbergs old thing could use a little help. (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.org, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.va, lugnet.loc.us.dc, lugnet.loc.us.md)
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| | WAMALUG Train Show Pictures
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Pictures from the first day of the show are up. (URL) show is over now, everything went great. I didn't hear a single negative complaint. We were invited back for the next three shows. We will give a more thorough rundown of the show tommorrow... (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.org, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.va, lugnet.loc.us.dc, lugnet.loc.us.md)
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| | Re: Blue Electric Track
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(...) That's right. And all the other explanations given by you are valid too. Thanks. (...) Indeed there have been remote controlled automatic points first. They have been invented in the late 60ies (1969?). (...) It's mainly Torsten Wernecke, who (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Attn Trainiacs
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Doug wrote in message ... (...) you (...) Due to the current ongoing brooha about misplaced market posts, this is a friendly public service announcement... If you're unsure if something is a violation, consider reading the T&C and the charter of (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Attn Trainiacs
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I don't know if this is a violation, I just thought that it might be a good idea to alert those people that would probally be the most interested...if you also do N scale (or are considering starting out) see my post in lugnet marketplace "For (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 12 signals in 9V setup (was Re: Blue Electric Track)
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(...) You could use an RIS... -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 12 signals in 9V setup (was Re: Blue Electric Track)
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(...) element from the Technic Space shuttle and linking to a signal remotely via the fibre-optic cables. The idea is that a passing train operates the rotary element mechanically, turning the signal from green to red to show 'section blocked' to (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 12 signals in 9V setup (was Re: Blue Electric Track)
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(...) After reading this then It got me thinking of how you could do it in a full 9v solution, using the 9v light bricks. Is such a thing possible? How would you replicate the controller? You could do it with some fancy poll reverser swich, wire (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 12 signals in 9V setup (was Re: Blue Electric Track)
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(...) It was great! Thanks. One thing for those of us who are squeamish about cutting track to make electrical gaps... there are at least two other ways. One is as follows: take 2 sections of track and put black electrical tape or some other thin (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | 12 signals in 9V setup (was Re: Blue Electric Track)
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Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> schreef in berichtnieuws 38A5FDF2.C56198C0@vo...ger.net... (...) 16 (...) If (...) Okay here goes: The 12V signal kit consists of four parts: 1. Electrical wire 2. The signal lights 3. Special track 4. The controls (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Blue Electric Track
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(...) I think this would be of general interest, please consider posting it here!!! (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Blue Electric Track
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(...) Many years ago this was the only track me & a LEGO maniac friend had...just for the record, between 1977 and 1981-ish we had built remote (manual) operated 4.5v points and multi-gauge track (std 6 studs mixed with 'narrow' 4 stud). We eveb (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Blue Electric Track
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Michael Pratt <mpratt@cix.co.uk> schreef in berichtnieuws memo.20000212194032....link.co.uk (...) For an overview check out Ben's site: (URL) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Blue Electric Track
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Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> schreef in berichtnieuws 38A5C5DB.BC65FD7B@vo...ger.net... (...) I own the 725 [1] blue track freight train with some points and crossover track I also have some grey 12V trains so I might be able to clarify some (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Couple of new rail cars at my "Brickshelf (tm)" gallery
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I was up prettly late last night throwing together a couple of "fun" cars to bring with me to the WAMALUG display tomorrow at the train show. First I made a car that I call the "Harlequin", named after a VW Golf model of a couple of years ago that (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Blue Electric Track
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This is one of several 12V sets old enough to have blue 12v track (URL) for us, some stalwart fan scanned in the instructions. Unfortunately for us, unlike with later sets, the instructions are mute on showing us how to put the track together so we (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: More pictures of my Dash-8/9/? model
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Larry, Thanks for the great feedback. I am not much of a trainhead (Lego or otherwise) yet, and those sites and pictures that you pointed me to were very cool and very useful. I imagine that future attempts to build "realish" looking train stuff (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Blue Electric Track
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(...) like? (...) switch like, (...) different colours, (...) There is a picture of the conductor rail in the Dorland Kindersly Lego book. It is just the same as the later grey. I would like to know what the trains were like ? Michael Pratt (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Piggyback trailer grabber made from container grabber.
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Allan, I had nice seen your site before. NICE work. I liked evertything, and your bus...the bus looks very good. I like the use of the big windows. Much better than the LEGO busses. Chris (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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