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Rick, What are your thoughts on painting Lego bricks. I am sort of a purist and therefore not so creative. I have a fantastic idea for one heck of a massive setup. Green bricks will be very important and the details - pictures of your discoveries. (...) (26 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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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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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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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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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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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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