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I do exactly this and it works without a problem. I have two loops that cross each other twice; I must admit that visitors can't resist the temptation to run one train into the other. Cary (...) (25 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I have a simple question about the 4519 (URL) cross tracks. Is the voltage from one track isolated from the crossing track? Basically I want to have two mainlines cross each other while maintaining separate power supplies. Can this be done with a (...) (25 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: wanted: 2x2 classic windows
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Gary (or anyone), Can you tell me what other sets (if the number isn't huge) come with the 1x2x2 yellow window. I have a few of these windows and I am pretty sure they did come from that old Shell set (325). I personlly found them at a garage sale (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) Yes a collector friend in Germany told me about that rare 1x3x2 blue window. It's in the locomotive, if I remember correctly. It's the only occurrance of a 1x3x2 window in a color besides red or white. I hope that Brad Justus confirms that (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Gary R. Istok writes: <snipped-a-lot> (...) Black 1x2x2 windows appeared in the following 80s train sets that I know: 7727 (2x) 7750 (2x) 7810 (4x) Also the 7750 has 4 1x1x2 windows in black. The 7760 has 2 1x3x2 (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) Lindsay, 1x2x2 windows do exist in black. But I can't say in what set. I purchased two of these, as well as one 1x1x2 (thin tall) window in black in a German toy stores train parts box back in the 80's. This wooden box with lots of partitions (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) Lar, the (...) run of (...) fact that (...) Classic windows and the 3x3 low sloped corners have been part of a couple of sets: windows for e.g. in 7730, 7750. The sloped corners for e.g. in both of the train stations during the nineties, in (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) Those are indeed great items--and I'm amazed at how rare grey really are. The fact that they were never made in black, I find just...weird. I'm interested in what they eventually say about the *other* Classic window moulds (especially the (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Lionel and LEGO
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(...) OK. I scanned the entry from the catalog: (URL) Clark, BayLUG/BayLTC (URL) 39423705 (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Duhhhhhh!! In all my excitement, I forgot to post the website with the picture of the 352 Windmill set with the white windows/door: (URL) Istok (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) A few more ideas, can't the standard 1x4 lighting bar (5310) be used with a tile on top, etc. Alternatively you could use a pair of the lights used in 5310 on their side - I don't have any of those lights so I'm not sure about space. (...) (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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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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| | Re: Lionel and LEGO
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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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| | Re: power transmission of fake 4460
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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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| | Re: power transmission of fake 4460
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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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