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Nice start, Mike- Although the Hi Atlantic is streamlined and thus at first glance looks to be an easy model to make, I can testify that that isn't the case indeed. My Hi took about a half a year to complete, mostly trying to acquire the specialty (...) (24 years ago, 30-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I have finalized my design for this engine but......dont have enough orange pieces. i used the large gears wrapped with chain links for the large wheels....tell me what u think.. THanks, Mike (URL) (24 years ago, 30-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Steam Train (4-8-8-4)
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(...) is (...) a (...) and (...) follow-ups to: lugnet.trains Frank (24 years ago, 29-May-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ny.syr, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New Plasticity layout - a challenge
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(...) walk. Lar, I mass out at around 120 kg, or 250 Lb's...and I am currently navigating on 1/4" plywood on carpet (not so good...). The key is to step on the _roads_ not the studs :). I have many a time had little "lego" indents on my legs from (...) (24 years ago, 29-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New Plasticity layout - a challenge
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(...) Maybe you can, I can't. :-) I've had too much good food (including some fine German beer last week), and I think I mass enough that if I'm wearing shoes I deform the baseplates and if I'm just wearing socks I deform my feet to the point where (...) (24 years ago, 29-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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While building my recent EMD SD-45's I was having trouble getting the look I wanted under the wagon plate between the wheel sets. I found that if I used the common inverted slopes or maybe the round bricks, I just couldn't get close enough to the (...) (24 years ago, 28-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New Plasticity layout - a challenge
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(...) about (...) It would work fine...on the floor. This is where my layouts are for the most part, with the lego trains it works quite well to have them directly onto a solid floor. Yes, it does limit some choices of elevation, but it also adds a (...) (24 years ago, 28-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New Plasticity layout - a challenge
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(...) This layout still exists!...The Madder Valley Railway exists in probably the best model railway museum in the world, at Pendon (Oxton). The MVR went through many versions in the time that it existed, the current one is different again. James (24 years ago, 28-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) the (...) about (...) Of course there are solutions which don't require access hatches. A kind of interesting one from the latest issue of The Narrow Guage and Shortline Gazette - one modeler building in a large scale has a mine building that (...) (24 years ago, 28-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: GE's AC4400cw redone, with some good pics
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(...) You asked. As a picture, it is very pretty. As a model, it has some major flaws: - it uses pieces that don't exist (the nose piece, the doors perhaps) - it uses decorations on pieces that don't exist (the BNSF lettering) - it uses pieces in (...) (24 years ago, 28-May-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.trains)
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