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(...) ...Chicken!! You have to make sacrifices for high art (in particular, high art falling to low places and making big messes! :-) ...you can go back to ignoring me now... wubwub stephen f roberts wildlink.com lugnet #160 (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.trains)
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(...) actually it was Chris Tracy who was filming it, and the reason he didn't get the end of the crash was that he was running away to avoid being hurt (or damaging the camera!) :) Dan (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Help building my own Train Base
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(...) There are other plates around the technic plate to make it easy for the bogie to turn. They butt up to the 1 by x yellow trim plates. This allows the bogie to pivot past the trim plate. (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I can't believe you were recording this: (URL) should explain... The show was almost over and I was experimenting with the lifting limits of the crane. The flatbed trailer (that the beams were delivered to the construction site on) was just a (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.trains)
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ok, fixed my script. Now all the pics and mpgs are up on my page: (URL) on brickshelf: (URL) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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| | Re: Bright Future for LEGO Trains? (was Re:No LEGOFest...)
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(...) I think LEGO Trains, as a niche market, would be best served by TLC focusing on producing good-looking sets, while keeping costs down. If the rumors about a Trains-meets-Mindstorms product line are true, that will (hopefully) address the need (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.trains)
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(...) ...We're number 1!!!! :-) ...The movies are _way_ cool... havent decided yet which one's my fave :-) ...you can go back to ignoring me now... wubwub stephen f roberts wildlink.com lugnet #160 (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.trains)
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(...) OUCH! ...Dang desk bruised my jaw again... Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Searchlight car
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(...) This implying that you're not "going crazy" with what you've got now? <g,d&r!> JohnG, GMLTC - the group that long ago crossed the line into 'crazy' territory!!! (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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INFOINFOINFO! We MUST have info! ;-) I want DCC BAD, so that BayLTC can go crazy with our train setup. (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal views with my employer (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: GATS pictures (and MPGs!), first day
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On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 12:29:23 GMT "Richard Schamus" <legoman34@mindspring.com> wrote concerning 'Re: GATS pictures (and MPGs!), first day': (...) yup, there's about 15 more mpgs and lots of more pics.... The pics are already up on my page ((URL) I'll (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.trains)
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| | WAMALUG's GATS Layout was a huge success!
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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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Agreed, Very good idea. -Nick Frank Buiting wrote in message ... <cut> (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: GATS pictures (and MPGs!), first day
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(...) Ok, I just put up some quicktime's: (URL) about 10 Megs each but the quality is pretty good. KL (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Bright Future for LEGO Trains? (was Re:No LEGOFest...)
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(...) on (...) of (...) intergalactic (...) as (...) someone (...) I (...) knuckle (...) is (...) I've been deciding where to enter this discusion, and I think that the place is here. WAMALUG has at least one of us who is using DCC for train (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: GATS pictures (and MPGs!), first day
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(...) I'm sure in the following respect, that I speak for the others, we're glad you loved our stuff. It's just gonna keep getting better and better with the talent that we have on hand. (...) I loved them too, but I'm biased slightly, I liked the (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.trains)
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