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(...) Wow - how can I reply to a comment like that? Superlatives fail me... Kudos! Fantastic! Great! Well Done! Congratulations! Bravo! Excellent! And next time, you'll probably do even better!! JohnG, GMLTC (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains)
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Kevin Loch wrote in message ... (...) He did say it in a kind of kidding but more of a "smart ass" way. Also kept asking me if I had to wind them up before they'd run... ha! I took it in a joking manner knowing that he'd change his tone once he saw (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains)
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(...) I don't think you will. There are no cool parts in the set (with exception of wooden tons maybe). But it's the cheapest way to get a lot of magnetic couplings, wheel sets, bogie plates, groundplates. So I have stuff for trading and building (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) No, original prices in the shops have been 100 to 120 DM (50 to 60 $). I started to buy some copies, when the price was 80 DM. Then I had the chance to get 3 for 50 DM each. After that again some for 60 ..75 DM. Last week I got 3 for an (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Thta is so great. I can just see the NMRA guy that gave you a hard time approaching you with head hanging quietly saying, "Well, that was good...I guess we have to give you a bigger space because no one could get past the crowds caused by your (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains)
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(...) That's a surprisingly in-your-face approach. I could understand saying that before on the phone but not *while* you are busy setting up. depending on how it was said (joking or serious) I might have given them some attitude right back (or at (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains)
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Well we survived the Piedmont Division's (local NMRA chapter) show this weekend, and pasted their test with flying colors. A few months back I had to practically beg them to let us display at the show and at the last minute they asked me to bring a (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains)
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Due to the magnitude of this post I thought I could reply by saying: I haven't got a clue what one would do with SO MANY copies of set 2126, for I do not own any sets 2126. (I wonder if I'll ever regret that?) But, if I did, I think they would get (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) So what would you build out of these: (URL) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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You didn't pay full retail for all those, did you? It would be nice if train stuff went on sale over here in the US, but that will not happen as long as LEGO Shop at Home is the only supplier for the majority of train stuff. Chris (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Ah, incandescent light. I use incandescent, fluorescent and halogen. Yeah, I get it real bright. Either way, that picture is the result of poor lighting. I actually bought a surf shack because I thought it had an orange plate. It looked orange in (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) My digital camera takes quite nice pictures with flash, of course it took even better pictures when I added a slave flash. That picture actually looked more to me like it was taken using room lights only (incandescent lights are very yellow). (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Thanks to everyone for their comments regarding my explanation of how to implement DCC into LEGO trains. (URL) on the comments received, I have updated the instructions and highlighted the changes to the text in RED. These changes include: - small (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Parse. See: (URL) note the v.intr. definition. "did not parse" == "I didn't understand what you were saying" either because you made a grammatical or transcription error that interfered with deriving meaning, or because your sentence was too (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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(...) It's a great idea. If you're impure. :-) Purists (and I'm mostly in this camp) like to see what they can do without using non LEGO things. But there's nothing wrong with your suggestion. (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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You could always "accidentally" stick a MegaBlock plate back there. It would be obscured from view and I don't think they have markings on the studs, but maybe they do. (I don't use MB, so I wouldn't know). I know Tyco had blank studs, but their (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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It is not painted. I took some pictures and they turned out like that as well. You need to use all natural lighting and turn off the flash when photographing Lego. The flash changes the color due to the reflection, as well as the poor color digital (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I don't think it is the lighting. Usually you can recover the colors by adjusting settings for the picture in a program like Photoshop or even Microsoft Photo Editor. I did not succeed in doing so, so my guess is this person PAINTED the tracks (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) scanned copies of the instructions... -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hmmm, we may be running into the limit of lego tolerances here. When I tried the assembly, it was clearly just the letters on top of the studs that kept it from working perfectly. In fact, it does actually hold together, and works just as I (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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