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OK fellows, I want to chime in here for a moment..... I can't confirm this one way or another. What made me agree with Ben about this is the fact that those 352 Windmill instructions show the different levels of the building progression in different (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) I have a 1995 Stocking Stuffer's catalog. The flatcar with helicopter is in it, however my understanding is that it was never produced. The seller could be selling either counterfeits or preproduction models. The are not real LEGO either, but (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Thanks for pointed this Acution out. I browsed a few other Lionel Auctions (I did not know it existed), some of there stuff is quite impressive. I loved the train on this sign: (URL) I did find this a little quirky: (URL) there a site dedicated to (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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One of the members of WAMALUG spotted this in an ebay auction recently. (URL) a Greenberg show last Feburary, I was talking to a lionel dealer who asked me if I had ever heard that back in the 1950/60's Lionel had a brief deal with LEGO to produce a (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) "don't" know anyone? If that is what you meant, then I guess it would be a cultural thing. There is no higher praise for a man in the US than to be called a stud (synonymous with "The Man" or "Da Man" as in "You da Man!"). Translations aside, (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I think it has three weight elements in it already... What it needs is to get some weight below the axles on the drive wheels... J1, GMLTC (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) instead (...) hard (...) pushing (...) very (...) of (...) got (...) Hmmm...what about using a boat weight over the trailing wheels? Wouldn't the increased weight improve the trailing wheels tracking characteristics? You'd also lower the (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I think the Atlantics had skirting over the drive wheels, that would be hard to simulate in 6 wide... Since the 9volt motor is in the tender, it's pushing the engine - we found that a single trailing axle didn't hold the track very well. So, (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message news:Ft7ryo.ECC@lugnet.com... (...) site: (...) wonder (...) pardon (...) had (...) studs (...) meaning of (...) derived (...) It has the same general meaning here (Scotland/UK) too, but it is (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: power transmission of fake 4460
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(...) In US colloquial usage to be a stud is (derived from breeder, and then derived from "success with the oppposite sex" I guess) to be someone who can pull amazing feats off, or more generally, someone to be admired. It was a weak usage, but the (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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