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I have a pair of monorail switches that don't move well. I have new ones and know how they should work. Is it possible to open up one of the switches without damaging it? I was about to try, but decided to seek expert advise from one of you before (...) (24 years ago, 13-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Old yellow and red train parts
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I came across what I believe are older train parts, I figure they are from the 12V series. This is all I have, but they are in great shape. They are of no use to me, and are a shame to store away, do these parts interest anyone? The 3, 1x4 yellow (...) (24 years ago, 13-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: German Lego®-builder with mega-project
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(...) Following is my attempt at the translation. Comments between parentheses are my own words. The rest of the translation is a bit loose in some sentences. Read well, Andreas Stabno (URL) Ballmann in his little empire The little basement (...) (24 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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| | Real Steamer
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Hi, On the stretch Eindhoven - Den Bosch in the Netherlands the track is doubled from 2 to 4 tracks with a new station in Best. To celebrate the opening of the station today, the first train to stop at it was steamloc (model DB 23 071, a 2-6-2 loc (...) (24 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: German Lego®-builder with mega-project
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(...) Halftoning is incredibly easy with a good image editor, like Corel PhotoPaint. Could someone translate the article? My German's not very good either (ie, I can sometimes guess what something says...) --Bram Bram (...) (24 years ago, 11-May-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: German Lego®-builder with mega-project
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(...) Just some Corel Draw, you know? (...) Do I remember right with you, Larry finding a dozen of london busses in a small german shop? (Or was this a hint on Gary being the lucky finder? So long ago I read that story....) (...) Never been in (...) (24 years ago, 11-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: German Lego®-builder with mega-project
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(...) Cool, Ben. How did you get the newspaper halftone look? That is some forgery, you've outdone yourself with that one! Really, you ought to slow down, though, you're so far ahead of us in the forgery trade that we'll NEVER catch up, you keep (...) (24 years ago, 11-May-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Anyone know what set two white piece 4511 (sliding train door) came in?
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(...) I aggree, as a former owner of a 740. (24 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Isolating rails
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(...) Yes, It is possible to cut trough the metal strip only (well, almost only), on de spots where there are gaps in the plastic supporting these strips. I've done this using a mini tool with a thin cutting disk. It makes a very smooth cut, thin (...) (24 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | NGLTC May layout
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For those of you who are planning on participating at the North Georgia LEGO Train Club display on May 27th at the Georgia LEGO Outlet store, a preliminary layout is available at : (URL) set the tables up last weekend to get a feel for the amount of (...) (24 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: Anyone know what set two white piece 4511 (sliding train door) came in?
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Boy, those old 7xx Basic sets really TICK ME OFF! Why? Because they were so dang GOOD, and the Basic sets today totally suck in comparison! (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal (...) (24 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | German Lego®-builder with mega-project
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Hi folks! I got a scan of a newspaper concerning a 51 years old Lego fan, who has built a whole town in his subterrain rooms. Now he has come out and shows his stuff including some train layout in a museum (he owns one to two million bricks in (...) (24 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town) !
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| | Re: Anyone know what set two white piece 4511 (sliding train door) came in?
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Since I have been on a hunt for these as well, I have some information to share (or at least pass along) I received this info from an email concerning a recent trade: "Mine [not me but the seller] are new and unused and were part of service pack (...) (24 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Anyone know what set two white piece 4511 (sliding train door) came in?
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I'm only aware of red, yellow, and white. From memory and the set database at lugnet/inv, the large sliding doors came in the following: red: 2 in 740 Building Set (also includes red/yellow train doors and yellow train windows!) 2 in 5077 Parts Pack (...) (24 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: NGLTC show at the Georgia LEGO Outlet store
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Yeah was talking to the manager a couple of weeks ago, they did get a variety of train stuff in,but it was all the standard stuff you get from S@H. I was hoping for some discontinued sets, but really I'm glad they have something in stock. I just (...) (24 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | 7864 / 12V / Transformer-Controller
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I have found in a store some 3 or 4 old 12 Volts Transformer-Controller, reference is 7864. I'll probably take one for me and the rest can be sold/exchanged for other of my missing sets. Anyone interested ? LG (24 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: NGLTC show at the Georgia LEGO Outlet store
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I was at the store last week. They didn't have any train sets other than the current one. They had quite a bit of track though, also a few accessories (snow clearing train, track repair truck, etc). I was hoping they would have had the train station (...) (24 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ga, lugnet.loc.us.ga.atl, lugnet.org.us.dixielug)
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| | Re: Anyone know what set two white piece 4511 (sliding train door) came in?
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NOW the question is, what other colors did they come in, in what sets? I know of red in 78xx mail car, and yellow in 6391. Any other colors? I have too many white, need more red/yellow, and would LOVE it if they existed in grey, or best of all, (...) (24 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Anyone know what set two white piece 4511 (sliding train door) came in?
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Two of them came with the 720 Basic Building set: (URL) are shown on the box cover on the panel truck. Mike -- Mike Walsh - mike_walsh@mindspring.com (URL) VanAtta" <CompGuy926@aol.com> wrote in message news:FuBHMn.F7t@lugnet.com... (...) I'd (...) (24 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Summer steam excursion train
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The City is Knoxville, Tenn. The only picture they showed was from the inside of the shed where they are rebuilding it and it was dark and showed no details of the train... The story says they tried to use it in a quarry operation but it wasn't (...) (24 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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