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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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| | How high are train cars.
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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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| | Re: Lego layout from the seventies
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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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| | Re: Lego layout from the seventies
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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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| | Re: Pictures of my 8-wide trains on brickshelf
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(...) Hi,John first of all thanks for your "excellent work" (and,of course thanks to all who appreciated my trains!) My first lego train was a metroliner,in 1993. I soon got bored of it,because it was so small and light.... About in 1994 I had this (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: Pictures of my 8-wide trains on brickshelf
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(...) Non apprezzo particolarmente la parte ferroviaria Lego ... pero' ... ... Complimenti !!!! Visto che sei di Torino posso portarti in pellegrinaggio un amico a cui piace il genere 8-)))) CiaoCiaoSergio (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.it)
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| | GE Diesel Locomotive - MOC
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I have uploaded some (not very good) pictures of a MOC GE Diesel Locomotive I built. (URL) based this model on an actual engine ((URL) owned by the New Hope Valley RailRoad ((URL) which operates a train museum out of Bonsall, North Carolina (not too (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.nc, lugnet.org.us.nclug)
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| | Re: Pictures of my 8-wide trains on brickshelf
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(...) I think your models deserve better photographs Gianluca, they all look superb and we wan't to see more! The photograph showing the end of the 'Metroliner' coach really emphasises the profile shape available with 8-wide. I would love to see (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Copy of my April hoax train
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Somebody has done a quite cool copy of my April fool jokes "Rheingold Express" but in a different colour scheme. Take a look on under the URL: (URL) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Various MOC's metamorphosed from Sets
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(...) you can just ignore the trains.htm part and then follow the links, or (URL) follow the links .com should work same as co.uk which shortens it by 2 regards lawrence (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Pictures of my 8-wide trains on brickshelf
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Bravo, Gianluca! Another disciple;-) Welcome to the 8 wide side{:^D You've built almost as many 8 wides as I have! I especially enjoyed your Santa Fe Warbonnet. I would be interested in hearing your experiences in building 8 wide, as I'm sure would (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: Pictures of my 8-wide trains on brickshelf
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Hey those look great. I'd love to see some more close ups of the box car. I like the "wood slat" look that it has. jt gianluca morelli wrote in message <20000504150630.7885...oo.com>... (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Pictures of my 8-wide trains on brickshelf
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Hi all, I've put some pics of my 8-wide trains on brickshelf's gallery. First of all I'm sorry because they are a bit fuzzy,but I'm not an expert photographer... You can see them on www.brickshelf.com click on "members" and then on "Gianluca (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: 4555 Freight Loading Station available at S@H
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No one buy any (smirk). Call every Monday morning to see if they have gone on special and then start buying. Chris P.S. Wouldn't it be really nice if LEGO gave a discount on large purchases of track? But I am sure we have all thought this before. (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.trains)
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