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Todd Lehman ha scritto: (...) Sorry, I want to apologize for it. However, I have to say that I'm a bit confused about this kind of things. I always thought that a market post outside the lugnet.market newsgroups was inappropriate, but I recently (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Future of LEGO Trains ? was Re: Model Railroad Scenery
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The lower half of the nose piece has two square openings. To my knowledge only the special trans-yellow "Y" will fit into these square openings and allow a single bulb to illuminate the right and left side simultaneously. If you increase the spacing (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Future of LEGO Trains ? was Re: Model Railroad Scenery
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(...) Technic brick with a lens in the center? I'm not sure I follow what the problem is, exactly... can you elaborate? (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Future of LEGO Trains ? was Re: Model Railroad Scenery
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By making the nose split however you would run into an issue with the trans-yellow headlamp piece. The only solution I can think of would be to use two light bulbs to light-up both sides. -Nick Tom Stangl wrote in message (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Future of LEGO Trains ? was Re: Model Railroad Scenery
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(...) I've NEVER understood why Lego didn't make nose pieces split to begin with. Then they could make each half 2-wide, and you could insert slopes between them to make them any width you want. Then they'd only have to worry about making 6/8/10/12 (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 4,5v / 12v Train Offers
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(...) Reminder: Auction announcements belong in .market.auction only (pointing to an auction in .market.auction from .trains constitutes announcing it to .trains)! --Todd (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Future of LEGO Trains?
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(...) And I suppose you'll want it weatherproof, so you can have a garden railroad, right? I'll be happy if they come out with some decent looking 6 (or 8) wide trains that actually look like trains... The 4559 was a joke, the 4561 isn't much (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Future of LEGO Trains ? was Re: Model Railroad Scenery
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On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, John Neal (<38B40110.28868009@...west.net>) wrote at 15:47:29 (...) That's where I was going as well. If it was compatible with the existing 9V stuff (in terms of usable parts), it would be monstrously good. (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Future of LEGO Trains ? was Re: Model Railroad Scenery
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(...) Agreed. (...) I could live with larger pieces, as long as they are the *right* pieces;-) Train fronts (split), nose shells, specialty items (fans), railings, new trucks. Let them accent play, give us the tools and we will accent the (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Future of LEGO Trains ? was Re: Model Railroad Scenery
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On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Mike Poindexter (<FqD42y.7FB@lugnet.com>) wrote at 02:54:34 (...) This could be *very* good news, because they'll have to introduce a larger radius curve for longer stock. (...) It's unlikely they'll just add more bricks. To (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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