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| As you may've heard, WAMALUG displayed a layout at The Great American Train Show held over the weekend in Gaithersburg, Maryland. It was a *huge* success, and we tied for Third place (out of seven or so). We had one of the largest crowd draws, with (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.md, lugnet.loc.us.va, lugnet.loc.us.dc)
| | | | | Re: Searchlight car
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| (...) ...Convient u should mention this!!! WAMALUG's own Tom Cook has done just that! We were successfully running 5 separate trains on one circuit with _no_ problems (other than the occasional minor crash when we let them catch up with each other (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: Bright Future for LEGO Trains?
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| In lugnet.trains.org, Ben Fleskes writes: <snip> (...) <snip2> (...) Yep, it will thrive because the fans (us!) are dragging the company into the modern age... Instead of Lego leading the way, they are trying to keep up with us. We come up with more (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: Searchlight car
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| (...) Coincidentely, at the GATS show this weekend, a son(~10-11years old) of somebody in another club brought some of his LEGO trains to show us. One of them was a searchlight car. I think he modeled it after a lionel car that had a searchlight and (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: Searchlight car
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| Interesting. I would have guessed that they drove vehicles down the tracks for wrecks or construction sites. But I guess if you travel back to a time before cars and trucks came along, spotlights on cars could be quite a necessity. Thanks. -Nick (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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