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Has anyone tried making isolating rails? By this I mean a purposely modified section of track with a cut in one or both rails (can be done with a modelling grinder etc.). All the postings I have read refer to using 1 stud gaps between the rail ends (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: How high are train cars.
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(...) If you put a wagon plate on a 2 axle bogie which utilizes a bogie plate then you will be 4 bricks high as it stands on the track. The LEGO platforms which come with the train station are 2 bricks high. You could stack 2 ramp platforms and (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I'm building a train station with passenger platforms and I'm wondering how high to make the platforms. Currently I only have two axle train cars, but I'm plaining to get some of the dual boggy cars in the future. I'd like the platform to be the (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Lego layout from the seventies
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(...) Hmmmm - towards the bottom left of that picture is a small house with a red roof and an arrangement of black and white tiles in front. Anyone happen to know what set number it is? It's one of my favourite sets from the seventies - but I've so (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Three more 8w train pics
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(...) Gianluca, Thanks for posting these photos of your creations. They're wonderful. I particularly like the stud-up and stud-down orientation of the arches used on the side of the EMD f7 locomotive. What a nice circular hole of good proportion. (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I'm sorry,no informations are available. Yes,it was on an italian encyclopedia at the voice "toys". It seems to feature official Lego sets,so maybe it's an official Lego picture. Bye Gianluca (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Do you have more information as to the source of the picture? Do you mean it was pictured in an encyclopedia (like Brittanica)? (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Lego layout from the seventies
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(...) That's so cool. Check out that mountain! How many pieces in that??? And the station's a winner too!!! Some of the older stuff is really good, as it predated this morbid facination of juniorisation that TLC has developed. With less specialised (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | Lego layout from the seventies
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Hi all,I've put this old pic (I'm very fond of it) on brickshelf gallery. www.brickshelf.com/g...pedia0.jpg It is a lego train layout from the seventies,that was on an old encyclopedia of mine (since its name) . I really like it,because it's like I (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | Three more 8w train pics
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Hi all,I have put 3 more pics of my trains (pics 17,18,19) in pic 17 you can see the front of Santa Fe EMD f7.I'm sorry it is a bit fuzzy,so it will be a little difficult for you to understand how it was built. www.brickshelf.com/g...rain17.jpg In (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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