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If you can find it River Response has two of these in yellow. They're on the stern. (URL) Beach Department of Emergency Services www.crosswinds.net/~hokie (25 years ago, 12-Apr-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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Does anybody know what other sets include the inverted double sloped corner? Lugnet part ref calls it "3676 Slope Brick 45 2 x 2 Inverted Double Convex" (URL) trying to build duplicates of the 4536 Blue Hopper Car. The part is used in step 8 of the (...) (25 years ago, 12-Apr-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Well, okay, I guess I assumed we were talking about standard gauge, seeing as how LEGO gauge is even *wider* to scale than standard gauge, so how could you possibly model NG in minifig scale using LEGO track. You can't. I guess I should have (...) (25 years ago, 12-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Great stuff John! A couple of thoughts as feedback: 1) How does G-scale, 1:29 compare to the size of grack LEGO uses in LEGOland? 2) How many pieces are in your Caboose? The boxcar? 500 or so? How would this be for a fantasy dream: Lego releases a (...) (25 years ago, 12-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Quarry (...) won't go (...) web (...) they (...) Stop teasing me already...where can I find these (URL's)? Lego Beach Department of Emergency Services www.crosswinds.net/~hokie (25 years ago, 12-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I took a look at some of those pictures....quite impressed :) J (...) (25 years ago, 11-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.trains)
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Ok..I could string a few thousand feet of Cat 5 out of Eden Prairie. :) So is there anything official (meetings, etc.) that go on? Jamie (...) (25 years ago, 11-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.trains)
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(...) I doubt it...I really do. The Cyclopedias are great for 4 8 1/2 mainline stuff, but suck wind for any smaller/NG stuff. How many photo's/drawings are there even of engines like the Kirkfield Quarry engines? (nice 0-4-0's in 3' gauge, and one (...) (25 years ago, 11-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Wow, the best legomodular club out of how many, two? Never mind that you have several years as a head start on BayLTC and the backing of the biggest privite LEGO brick collection in the world, we will make you work to keep that title - if you (...) (25 years ago, 11-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.trains)
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(...) I just paged through the Walther's HO catalog to look for ideas. I would recommend it to everyone-- it is packed with ideas for practically anything you'd want to model on a train layout. It's worth the $19.99 IMO Chris, the Stone Tower (...) (25 years ago, 11-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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(...) Wow! Nice engineshed John. I've been playing around with building a two stall enginehouse/shop myself. Here are some pics of it from last Sunday's WAMALUG meeting: (URL) nowhere near finished yet. I'm really not happy with the roof- so I am (...) (25 years ago, 11-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Except the gmltc.org server is still sitting in my basement eagerly awaiting my new dsl connection so more people can connect to it. If you wanted to bring your computer over, I could wire you in though.... <grin> -john (...) (25 years ago, 11-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.trains)
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(...) MAN did you luck on in where you live. GMLTC is by far the best Legomodular club out there. See gmltc.org for more info... ++Lar (25 years ago, 11-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Who said we're fighting? Unless we're in kidding mode, we agree on this. There are lots of interesting scales/form factors to work in, depending on what you want to do. Those 14 wides look amazingly realistic. Stuff that has to be done with (...) (25 years ago, 11-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hi John, yes your trial was a little successful. ;-) I really thought you could buy all kind of roof bricks via shop at home. At least I'm quite sure you can get the 45° sloped bricks in black: that's right, isn't it? And yes we have had the (...) (25 years ago, 11-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Hey Will- Don't mess around-- go out and buy Model Railroader Cyclopedia Vol 1 Steam Locomotives. It contains schematics of every iteration of steam engine built in the US. Vol 2 is dedicated to diesels. Together they are the bible for model (...) (25 years ago, 11-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I'm starting to expand into trains now and need some reference material. Can anyone point me to pictures of the following (real or scale models): 4-4-2 Atlantic (I have one mostly done in lDraw but I need some more angles to work from) 0-6-0 (...) (25 years ago, 11-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) 1) Gary I. would be laughing maniacly and saying "See! Classic Lego = HO scale!" 2) I'm afraid that you have opened another Pandora's Box. Will Lego Beach Department of Emergency Services www.crosswinds.net/~hokie (25 years ago, 11-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Okay, I built *one* more 4 wide car -- a parlor car from the 1939 Hiawatha streamliner run by Milwaukee Road. Now, check this out: I have 4 pics to show you. The first is my 4 wide taken directly from my scanner (100%): (URL) Now this next pic is (...) (25 years ago, 11-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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Wow. It is a real shame that TLC would not make such a high quality set. I know I would splurge (uh, spend) whatever it took to buy one of those! Great job on the engine shed, could you post a few pictures from the other side? Wayne G. (...) (25 years ago, 11-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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