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Interesting that, not having seen any of these layouts, I hit upon the basic structural ideas behind all of them. Maybe I should take a trip to Vegas? -- William A. Swanberg CPT, SC Commander, 229th Signal Company (TACSAT) swanberg@msn.com (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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So then, wouldn't this require some type of anti-gravity device (made entirely out of Lego, of course)? : ) -- William A. Swanberg CPT, SC Commander, 229th Signal Company (TACSAT) swanberg@msn.com "Ben Roller" <broller@clemson.edu> wrote in message (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Now Larry, if I've got enough bricks to cover the table surface I'm sure you do. :-) Yes, I know I use Duplo for structural support and a ton of BURPs for terrain, but hey all together it doesn't look too bad. (URL) > (...) I had talked about (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I was wondering why you wrote ROFL. I laughed out loud too! (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) bricks (...) REAL (...) I'd have to disagree, if we want to go to that type of reasoning, and display of LEGO creations where there is any dependancy on anything not made by TLC as part of the LEGO line of products, would not be pure. This (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I've yet to see any REAL purists. If you think you are a purist, take a look at what your Lego layout is sitting on...until I see tables made of Lego bricks (including the legs) I won't consider any layout that's not on the floor a REAL purist (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I'm curious...have you regulated the requisite size per module (as per N-Trak) if someone can come up with a set of guidelines regarding size, track placement, and relative height of ground cover several people from very different areas could (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hi I live in LeFlore County Oklahoma. (near Arkansas) I don't really think I'm an expert builder but I've had my times. J.W.Hummer visit my failing site at www.geocities.com/spincity999 (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Well, I'm not the only voice of WAMALUG, but I can confirm that a lot of the lay-out was modular from many sources within the group. We tried real hard to keep a balance of differant types of items. We, (WAMALUG) are just lucky to have many (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Well, this is, sort of, what PNLTC does. (and WAMALUG, for that matter, in their recent show.) I suspect it will be what I do in my home layout as I don't have enough bricks for modules. (...) This sounds interesting. It would be important to (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Not even one stud or hole, unless you make it yourself. Have Fun! C-Ya! Legoman34 ***** Legoman34 (Richard W. Schamus)... (No, I don't work for TLC, but I want to...) Card carrying LUGNET MEMBER: #70 Visit (URL) & (URL) wait is over...) (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Presume it has lego studs somewhere regards lawrence (25 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I have a bunch of the plastic caves if you want them... :) (ROFL) (URL) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) This is also interesting and something I can use in the future. However, I was actually referring to the roof itself. I've been using more of the curved bricks rather than the slopped ones. The problem I have is coming up with a roof that (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) quite... I havn't had a chance to play with them yet (since we just now got our 6990, and it has no switches anyway) but the concept is very nice... (...) pass through - with a nice "click" sound too :) though, under some situations, if the (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) multimeter, (...) running (...) steady (...) I can see the AC voltage with your multimeter, just select the AC Voltage and the reading will indicate the difference between the min and max voltage. If you see something around 10-12 V that (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) For what its worth, Lego themselves seem quite happy to use the 'plaster, styrofoam and other materials' approach at Legoland when building miniland. Besides the fact there is no real lego train there, there is plenty of non- lego 'nature' (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Welcome, Ian. I've been lurking here for some time myself, and reading over the messages in this group (and others) tells me that there are several schools of thought on this issue. First of all, there are what I would call the "purists." In simple (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) You can pass against the setting of the point reliably. In fact, someone has posted some interesting train layouts which rely on this feature to allow two trains travelling in opposite directions to take different but partially overlapping (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I have been lurking in the trains group for some time. I have been acquiring bricks and planning my intended LEGO railroad. My first question involves scenery. I know that the GMLTC group, Mike Poindexter and possibly others are building large (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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