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(...) The lights _should_ be fine. Esp. if you have any real length of wire between them and the powerpack, they are not going to get 13V, in fact, they may well not even be getting 12V. The best way to judge is to take the lights, and (in a dark (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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For a 7864 12v train speed regulator: Went down to Radio Shack yesterday and bought a 40W 110v to 220v step up transformer. So far as I can tell 40W is just fine for running the LEGO 12v trains and accessories. The German plug on the 7864 goes (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Ben, Thanks. Any assistance you can provide will be greatly appreciated. However, I would not want you to re-open a repaired points motor that currently works and risk damaging the box. Perhaps Ludo would be willing to speak to this again? I am (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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From John Neal: (...) Yes, I'm looking forward to meeting whoever's around in Minneapolis next week--you can thank Steve and Barb for having a <a href="(URL)baby</a> so that I now have a good front to come to Minneapolis so I can play with Lego! ;) (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) For those that may be wondering the maps can be found at: (URL) are also many links to these maps from the LUGNET home page as well as in the lugnet.org.* and lugnet.loc.* hierarchies. Finally I just wanted to remind people that when you get (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.org, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.it, lugnet.org.ca, lugnet.org.nl, lugnet.org.us)
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(...) Any time. Only too happy to help. :-) See you Friday, hopefully. (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) are (...) Well it's got ME gaga. MF looks to be a good set for parts. Although as I've opined before, I feel almost all double slope parts are evil, they all should be paired 1/2 parts instead so we can use them as we will. There are a lot of (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi James, same question came up u few weeks ago.... Ludo from Belgium answered then that he opened such a point motor box once, but he traded it away and the new owner is me. If you like I can try to find this repaired point motor this evening (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thank's Jonathan and Larry for your helpful replies, but I someone already promised to deal away his "720" goldprinted bricks and I'm in contact with an owner of the 722. If that deal won't be finished I come back to the 2500% offer. Regards, (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Help Open 12v switch track motor- doesn't switch
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Hi, I need some help. I have a 12volt points/switch motor box that doesn't work quite right. Most of the time the motor doesn't give any audible or visual indication of the solenoid even trying to throw the switch. Sometimes, if I push the switch to (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Careful, Alan. Wait until you see for yourself those "too wide for our track" trains next week. You may be changing your tune;-) But you are correct. The reintroduction of that part hardly excites me at all. -John (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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FUT lugnet.org For those of you that don't know I have been working on the LUG Map that Todd and Suz have greatiously decided to host here on LUGNET. For the most part we have worked out the issues with keeping the map updated. About the only thing (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.org, lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.it, lugnet.org.ca, lugnet.org.nl, lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: Pictures of GFLTC at the Enviro Fair...
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(...) curves (...) It all started two or three years ago, when I met Karl Gunther of the Sky Train Corp. at a H & R Train Show. He had a small LEGO display that he built of the Sky Train at the show. We got to talking about how it works and how we (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.loc.us.fl, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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Technic set 8856 Whirlwind Rescue contains(ed) the 6x6 multi-slope roof cap. Until seeing the two in the Mil. Falcon, I had sought 8856 for that single piece. Failing to find the 8856 set, I look forward to getting a Falcon for these pieces alone. (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) for (...) I'm willing to trade you that 722, Ben. But the only thing I will accept in trade is the large wheel motor unit and the DCC control module, bought at retail or from S@H, still in it's official Lego(r) packaging, that you demonstrated (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) A similar example is found with Hornby O gauge (pre/post WW2). This stuff is very toy-like, made of flat printed tinplate with it's own style, runs on very coarse track but it provides HUGE entertainment for adult collectors and spectators at (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains)
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(...) OK everbody, we can make some serious money here by refusing to sell these last vital items to Ben; 1. We all demand a price about 2,500% higher than the market price. 2. If he is keen to complete his collection, he will buy the items. 3. The (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Also not to nitpick, but the part that's available in the 5978 is the 6x6 dual-low-slope roofcap, not the 6x6 multi-sloped roof cap--there's a difference! Both are much sought after by us trainheads, though (well, at least those of us who haven't (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Er, not to nitpick, but said part (in grey) is also available in set 5978 Sphynx Secret Surprise. You can't see it in the Pause pic, but it's part of the Sphynx's back. -Cheese (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Oops, you're right (The purpose of my original msg was "that colour has never been available before!), obviously I am no train expert (although I do have 4563). If it WAS the grey roof's first appearance, I'm sure you guys would have spotted (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) The point was not so much that the part has never been available in grey before, but that it is now available to mere mortals in grey, which is a good thing independant of whether it has already existed. (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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In lugnet.starwars, Bryan Wong writes: [snip] (...) Please allow me to pinch you: This part was incuded in set 4563, Load N' Haul Railroad. Picture: (URL) instructions: (URL) parts where included in set 4551, the Crocodile Engine. Picture: (URL) (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) In the picture stated above, the top part of the MF is on the upper right of the picture. Look at the two open "hatches." I think those are grey train roof pieces, like the black ones in 4558 and 4559! Bryan (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Don't do THAT, just sell it to me. Proto operation (switch lists, dispatchers, CTC panels, bad orders, etc.) can be a lot of fun. It's just not everyone's cup of tea, it's a lot like WORK. :-) As our hobby matures we will see continued (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains)
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<calm police negotiator voice ON> Steve ... put the gun down...you have a lot to live for...your minifigs are counting on you...<calm police negotiator voice OFF> I wonder though has anyone ever tried to figure out what the LEGO scale speeds are? (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains)
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Steve - LOL - I love it! :^) Ed (...) yourself! (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains)
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If I ever have to run my LEGO trains at scale speeds according to pseudo time tables I will shoot my self and have my collection ground up and sprinkled over the nearest train yard! SteveB (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Lego layout from the seventies
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Yes gray bricks were not available during the 60's, only gray plates. But that doesn't mean that LEGO didn't produce them for their models. They still do it today with bricks and pieces that are not produced for the general public. Just go to a (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | 9V train collection completed
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After buying the LegoLOCO® software to get the small and limited edition promoset 2585 on saturday, I'm now proud owner of all 9V train items. Two weeks ago my collection of the grey era got into state of completenes too. Since I bought the long (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | 6990 Trans Galaxy Express on sale
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I have phoned a store looking for TRAIN sets 12V or 9 V, They did not have any rare stuff excpet this 6990 which seems to be a MONORAIL serie which I'm not collecting. The lady on the phone told me it is from 1988 and has 9V motor + light + rail ... (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Pictures of GFLTC at the Enviro Fair...
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(...) Thnks for the construction details. Can you speak as to how you came to build it? Do you know some of the people in SkyTrain company or just thought it was neat, or what? Their site has a prototype made of lego that was built some years ago, (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.loc.us.fl, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: Pictures of GFLTC at the Enviro Fair...
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(...) The Sky Train model I built for this event uses a lot of different parts not designed to work together. Like 4.5 track in a narrow gage configuration (4 studs) and Mindstorms. The track is held together in a 6 stud wide housing (walls and (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.loc.us.fl, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: Chessie Steamer
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Darn cut and paste! My version is here (URL) (...) with (...) (See (...) I (...) red (...) post (...) the (...) <cut> (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Chessie Steamer
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I did put 8 wide in the folder description but it kind of gets lost at the top of the screen. The width of 8 wide really helped the train look a lot better than what I could create in six wide, which leads to the whole 8 vs. 6 discussion but I (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LEGO and the NMRA
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(...) When will they ever learn? Aaron (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains)
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| | LEGO and the NMRA
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I was reading this months NMRA (Nation Model Railroad Assoc.) magazine and it featured garden railroads. What caught my attention was some comments from the editor. He mentioned that many in the NMRA didn't consider garden railroads "real" model (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Pictures of GFLTC at the Enviro Fair...
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Robin, The layout looks cool, I like the inverted monorail. How does the "Sky Train" work? is it using a standard monorail engine or do you have some special MOC drive configuration? Also I like the layout outside of your standard cabinet, makes the (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.loc.us.fl, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Pictures of GFLTC at the Enviro Fair...
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Hi all, Pictures of the Greater Florida LEGO Train Club(GFLTC) at the Enviro Fair in Largo, Florida are now on-line. Check them out at: (URL) Ya... Robin W. GFLTC (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.loc.us.fl, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org) !
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Did you notice all the grey bricks used for the mountain. I don't recall grey bricks being available at the retail level in the 60s, there were only grey plates, weren't there? Michel Magnan (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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"James Mathis" <thakius@nmt.edu> wrote in message news:FuHG8y.8pF@lugnet.com... (...) The train is operated by a bunch of railway fanatics you can find more pictures of the trains they own at: (URL) site is in Dutch). The passenger coaches can be (...) (24 years ago, 14-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Chessie Steamer
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Excellent work, Nick! Welcome to the dark side;-) Nick, of course, failed to mention that his new train is 8 wide:-) I noticed that you did some selective shortening of your passenger cars. Was this because you experienced magnet holding problems, (...) (24 years ago, 14-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Monorail Request
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I am trying to complete a set 6990 and I am missing the front and rear bogie and wheels. Does anyone have a spare ? I have spares of the large trans blue oblong windows to trade. Also if anyone has any spare track and stanchions, high or low I (...) (24 years ago, 13-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Real Steamer
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Frank, Thanks for posting this picture. What did the passenger coaches look like? I'm pretty excited by the loco pictured. I think I have a Marklin model of this steam engine. All my Marklin stuff is at my parent's home now, but it is soon to be (...) (24 years ago, 13-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Monorail switch track repair question
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I received two switching pieces in a recent eBay auction. They were severely damaged by sand and dirt which virtually made the switch un-switchable. In fact there were signs of damage where the sled was unable to move the switching pin and caused (...) (24 years ago, 13-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Monorail switch track repair question
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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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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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| | Re: Bugfix Release of MLCad & More
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Carbon 60 wrote in message ... (...) Could we perhaps get this thread out of lugnet.trains? Follow-ups to: lugnet.cad.mlcad Thanks Frank (24 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Anyone know what set two white piece 4511 (sliding train door) came in?
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(...) It could be 7838. If you received these pieces in a "lot" with other pieces, a further determiner would be the 1x4x5 white framed windows (2493), and black supports 2 x 4 x 5, stanchion inclined (4476), or red sloped tipper ends (3436). Any of (...) (24 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Anyone know what set two white piece 4511 (sliding train door) came in?
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Exactly as the subject says...I gained two 4511 sliding doors, white, and I'd like to know what set they came out of...can anybody help me out? Joel (24 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Bugfix Release of MLCad & More
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(...) I can't find your known errors page but here's a couple: The Help on V1.9 doesn't work. If MLCAD can't find a particular file more than once it asks for everyone occurance - maybe you can create a 'Don't ask me about this file again' (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: My find of the week
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(...) and (...) visiting (...) As it turns out I am going to SAPphire Berlin, I fly out Wednesday of next week so we shall see for ourselves. LOL (and I will have an all day stopover in Amsterdam on Thursday the 18th) ++Lar (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.de, lugnet.loc.nl)
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| | Re: My find of the week
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Hi Larry, Thats the fun of living in Europe, we had an good net of shops all around us and some of the little shops still do have some old left overs to buy for an visiting collector. I know a lot of people who work the same way, just go out and get (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Lego layout from the seventies
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(...) Also the 1968 LEGO catalogs (for different countries) show a tressle train bridge using blue rail pieces on the front cover. Gary Istok (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Bugfix Release of MLCad & More
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In lugnet.cad, Axel Poqué writes: <SNIP> I changed the numbers until L3lab loaded the part without complaint, then tried (...) mouse (...) says (...) done (...) program. (...) Agreed: Pressing CANCEL is ignored by MLCad ==> bug I could see a problem (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Bugfix Release of MLCad & More
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(...) This is the right behavior (at least until now) if you select absolute rotation angles. In this case MLCad ignores all view angles and uses the specified one instead. The rotation end step reverts back to the original rotation angles. Michael (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Summer steam excursion train
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Hey, that's cool-- what city and what is the wheel config? -John (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Summer steam excursion train
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Hi Folks, I noticed in the local paper last week an item that might be of interest to the steam train fans. In an effort to "revitalize" our riverfront /downtown area, they are planing to have a 75 min steam excursion train ride. called the Three (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: My find of the week
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(...) Sure you did. :-) You've had all that stuff for ages, come clean. :-) ++Lar (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I'm sorry, but I have found just another bug as it seems: I was trying to to fix the singular matrix error in the minifig torso subpart and had figured it had to do with som missing number in the rotation matrix. I changed the numbers until (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.trains)
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(...) When I tried to use a rotation step (first time), all 4 windows showed the rotated model in view mode, leaving me slightly puzzled. I don't know if that's the way it's intended to be. After the rotation end step everythings back to normal (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.trains)
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I've posted some pictures of my current models on my website. There's a (I think) fairly innovative railway layout with track plans, and some scenary including tunnels. An old decaying rural UK station. And a Virgin Trains intercity express train - (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I've been wondering what you've been up to, Eric. I look forward to seeing this next station creation! later, James Mathis (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Wonderfuuuuuuuul!!!! Many of the stuff in these pages is also in my picture... look on page 70: the station is very similar to the one in my picture ,and, what's running under it? A Santa fe f7 (quite primitive,but it's a f7). And look at the (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) After showing the picture to a collegue, it doesn't exist anymore and I wasn't born yet, the inverted pyramid was "Katimavik" the canadian pavillon, other building like in front of the picture with the top floor at 45º angle look like the (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Hy to all, I just released V1.9R2 of MLCad which contains bug fixes for the mentioned errors. You can download the executeable or the whole package as you like from (URL) I've updated the model section on my home-page with an example mpd file (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.trains)
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"Reinhard "Ben" Beneke" <r.beneke@tu-bs.de> wrote in message news:Fu8LEB.AIt@lugnet.com... (...) northern (...) I think we are all doing this all over the world now - just encase we find that little set we are after, or can trade/sell. Pretty soon (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.trains)
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I made a tour through the Lüneburg Heath (densely populated area in northern germany) on last friday. I visited at least 20 shops in mainly smaller villages and found some nice old sets there. Best finds have been two remote controlled 12V points (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Anybody notice page 89's simularity to Man and his World, Expo 1967 in Montreal Canada? I was 8 then, but clearly remember standing on top of the inverted pyramid overlooking the park and watching the monorail and hovercraft. Don't know why, but I (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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These look good. The non-alignment of the black stripes is a bit jarring though. I've been surprised at the value of the 6557 cab you've used, these must be one of the more expensive 9v train parts. Scott A Mike Walsh <mike_walsh@mindspring.com> (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.nc, lugnet.org.us.nclug)
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(...) In the US & Canada it varies. Depending on the size of the station and the type of train, either high or low platforms are used. A high platform comes to the height of the car door. A low platform is not much (if any) higher than the railhead (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I'm (...) flat (...) The U-shaped ones are the same height at each end compared to the straight ones. (...) I think basically the top of the platform should line up within a plate to the height of the bottom of the train door - this is roughly (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Cool (...) What a feast for the eyes! Check out the architecture to the rear of page 69 and the MonoRail on page 94. Jon (...) (24 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Eric Brok wrote in message ... (...) Did you use anything for glass, or is it just the frame? I guess if one were desperate for LEGO pure glass material for such a large expanse, one could use larger parts bags from sets, and use little bits of (...) (24 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I used znap to build a classic iron-and-glass platform roof (with large arches). Looks ok. No pics yet. Eric (24 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Thanks for the pointer, that is a cool idea book. But I am left wondering, are those bridges really strong enough? The brigde on page 86 is pretty short, but the one on page 79 is fairly long (3 tracks). Just wondering out loud. Thanks, Chris P.S. I (...) (24 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yep. Just a single gap works fine. The period that the motor is bridging both power supplies will not substantially affect either one. The motor may stall if you have the 2 power supplies giving opposite polarities of near the same voltage, (...) (24 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Mindstorms has more than 2 voltage outputs (8+, you can write a program to split it in NQC to 100 discrete power levels, from 0.01 sec power on to 1. sec power on) I have a fair amount of experence doing exactly what you are proposing to do, (...) (24 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yup, I used this method for the 12 to 9V signal conversion. You can read more about it on my webpage: (URL) have also been thinking about isolating two stretches to use different powersupplies in one layout. I'm a little puzzled how to do it, (...) (24 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) There are other precedents for this sort of bridge. See (URL) particular, pages 79 and 86. This is my favorite train idea book. It also has a roller coaster on page 88. /Eric McC/ (24 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Ah. Set 344, Bungalow. Thanks, Frank! That explains why all my former attempts to find it using search terms like 'house' and 'chalet' failed :) Simon (URL) (24 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Note the bridge, it's made out of blue rails. We have seen several AFOL creations that do that, but I had no idea there was a precedent for it. Cool ++Lar (24 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) It's set 344 (in Pause (URL) ) I have posted a same mail via my newsclient over 5 hours ago, but it didn't appear so now I post it via the web. If the other post also comes through later then my apologies for the double posting. -- Frank (...) (24 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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