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| (...) The GMLTC is talking / dreaming about running a LEGO train layout completely around the upper pedestrian concourse at the Metrodome in Minneapolis if there is another Great Create building event. We think it would be around 2100 to 2200 feet, (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Well, I was joking, but wasn't someone talking about setting some kind of record at the "Great Create". The Great Create is held at a domed football field...isn't it (still joking). (...) Lego, or model train? (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Ya, save for the driver on the RT. I've been in the cab in fact, the day that the SRT opened. I have the first _fare paid_ transfer that was issued (at, IIRC 5.57 on the morning that the RT opened. I got to blow the horn, which is all the (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| Martin Legault wrote in message ... (...) wheels, (...) the (...) only (...) The statement I made was in reference to switching. The beamway *is* the suport for the running tyres. The rails nested within those running beams serve as a safety in case (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| Dean Husby wrote in message <38C3182A.3A1FFE59@a....bc.ca>... (...) do (...) closing? I (...) Same basic system exists in Toronto on the SRT, so I've got a local version I can relate to (^; (...) are (...) until (...) VERY nice! What sort of chime (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| A scale model is probably impractical (do the math, you'd need a football field to build it in) but a selectively compressed model would be an amazing centerpiece to a very large layout (c.f. Hell Gate bridge which, selectively compressed, is the (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Wall Wart, That one took me a second to figure out. Then I laughed. (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| Hi all, While poking around on other train sites someone saw my name and sent me the address to a Louisianna trains site. (URL) far I have only checked out the parts about the Huey P Long bridge and the train yard that is near where I live, and the (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| Iain, This is an ingeneous bit of work! I've looped through the .avi movie several times. I love it! later, James Mathis (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Nope the wheight of the train is on the rubber tires, the beam are there only for protection in case a tire blow out. Thay are also resopnsible for track switching. Martin (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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