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Greetings to all. I'm a long-time lurker on RTL, but new to Lugnet. Been lurking here about 3 weeks now. Great discussions. Oh, and I've been a Lego Railfan for nearly 12 years now (came out of my dark ages in college, with the 7722 battery train in (...) (26 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | 080 Ambassador Train Set
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I recently purchased an 080 Ambassador Train Set which is definitly from the Samsonite era. There is no date on the box and I cannot seem to find out anything about this set. Can anyone enlighten me? (26 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New stuff at the Train Depot
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(...) 4.5v Haven't tried anything as drastic as rewiring a train motor, in fact what I have it connected to at the moment is a rack and pinion (cog) locomotive which is driven by a new style Technic motor. (...) hours a day. I would guess about 2 (...) (26 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New stuff at the Train Depot
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(...) While simpler to do by running on 4.5V track, I'd connect, on every motor you want to do this with, the wheel pickups to one of the motor connector and the motor to the other. Then, by running the track at constant 9V, you can plug the RCX's (...) (26 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New stuff at the Train Depot
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As before, Matt has made another great addition to his Lego train_depot. His model with the RCX in the boxcar may be just inspiration I need to buy Mindstorms. I like the idea of an autonomous train running around the tracks. If you do this, do you (...) (26 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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I've added the following... 1. Pictures of my RCX built into a boxcar that I mentioned last week. 2. Pictures of a girder bridge made from Znap. 3. Thoughts about a new style of points. (URL) to Site Updates Matt (26 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 4559 Still being produced
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Isn't the product year over in March? This is when all the new prices come into effect. If this is so then it would have a 99 catalog. (...) (26 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | MOC: Great Central (Brit) 4-6-0 steamer
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I mentioned a while back that I had built this engine and got asked for pictures: they are now at (URL) be interested on comments from other people who have used the technic wheels like I have as train drivers. Kevin Wilson Vancouver, BC (26 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Gary Louie Death
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <36C01F00.880A33F5@v...er.net>... :The Lego community as a whole, and the train sub community in :particular, has suffered a significant and profound loss with the :passing of Gary Louie on 5 February. ... :He was (...) (26 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Dear Administrator
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[followups set to lugnet.admin.general] (...) I think this all boils down a few layers of simple good-natured confusion. Long ago (December, I think), when Kurt Eilers and John Neil (friends) signed up together, there was evidence that they may have (...) (26 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: 4559 Still being produced
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Asher Kobin wrote in message ... (...) ZB (...) 4559 is availible in Canada as well. LINC (26 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 4559 Still being produced
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What else do you want to know? (...) ZB (...) (26 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: SOME WELL NEEDED PERSPECTIVE
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On Tue, 9 Feb 1999 16:49:11 GMT, Kurt Eilers <keilers@uswest.net> wrote: Kurt. You've done it now. I posted something, and then you frigging forward it to .trains, without my permission, for no reason, and in that isn't enough, you paste it into the (...) (26 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: AUSTRIAN RAIL CAR
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(...) I would tend to say not, as to me, the defining characteristic of a railcar (or a street car, for that matter) is that it has two trucks (rather than articulated the way the 4559 lead unit is) and that it contains the entire "stuff" of a (...) (26 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | 12V train early 70th
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I am looking for a 12V train engine. The train (early seventeeth) is running on a blue track with three rails (the DC current is flowing through the middle rail). (26 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Dear Administrator
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Todd, Please post something and stop this insane flaming apologizing crap. I just want to read and chat about LEGO trains. I don't want to read about chips on shoulders... These guys are dominating the group with what I call unrelated info. How (...) (26 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Switches vs. Turnouts
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(...) In the UK, I always understood them to be called points, because that's what they were called in model railway catalogues and is what they were called in common usage. However someone recently told me that actually the name is different (...) (26 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: AUSTRIAN RAIL CAR
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(...) I know we can say many ugly things about 4559, but isn't it a rail car? Non-LEGO examples of rail cars are (if I understand the terminology correctly): - ER-IR4 <URL:(URL) - "S-trains" <URL:(URL) - IC3 <URL:(URL) ER-IR4 and the "S-trains" are (...) (26 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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