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(...) LOL, the girl I spoke to on the phone who told me the sets are due in the first or second week of March was named HOPE!Julie (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: LDraw and the Track Designer (Was: Next show)
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(...) Shouldn't give any problems. (...) If we just register the port information for the relevant parts (road plates, track, and monorail track), and inline all sub-files (not including parts) the inlined version of the model will contain indirect (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw and the Track Designer (Was: Next show)
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Yep, that was EXACTLY what I was thinking of. The convertor should create the needed views (all the rotations), and if it can handle the scaling too, so much the better. Just scaling bitmaps down in an image editor gives weird artifacts if you're (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Larry Pieniazek (lar@voyager.net) wrote: [...] (...) Sounds like a rather good idea. It would probably not be that difficult to create a LDraw to Track Designer converter. I presume that all sub-files (except for track parts) should be converted to (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Francesco: (...) LEGO has only had signals for the 4.5 V and the 12 V series. Does anybody have suggestions for working signals for the 9 V series? For the signal itself you can either use 1x2 plates with a diode or use two plain diodes. I would use (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Recycle truck hook (was Re: Older Dacta Community Vehicles IS still available at Kaplan
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(...) Hmmmm, I didn't buy THAT many of the set. And I bought them over the weekend. I'll be calling tomorrow morning to verify that I am actually getting what I ordered, and WHEN it will be in. I sure HOPE they have mine reserved, and will be able (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains)
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Robin, Nice layout ((URL) is the yellow thing next to your 5! LEGO voltage regulators? By-the-way, the plane....very nice touch. Chris (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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Well I hit my first MPLS Target today.... Perfect demographics... close in to the inner city, lots of socioeconomically disadvantaged shoppers. No one with any serious money for large sets. Should be a mother lode based on past experience. I'm (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.trains)
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| | Recycle truck hook (was Re: Older Dacta Community Vehicles IS still available at Kaplan
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regarding the set... I ordered 3... we'll see. Kaplan wasn't as crisp as usual. AND the catalog part of the site was down this AM. CSR said that they were doing maint. Let me tell you, you don't take a commerce site off the air just to do (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains)
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| | Next show (was Re: DCC Trains
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Hey Robin, < Note that you have your followups set wrong, other responders to Robin's original post will have to modify it from DCCTrainsIdea (not a group in the lugnet news hierarchy) back to lugnet.trains... > I wish I could see your next show, it (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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3225 should not be too hard, perhaps you could make a quick trip to Germany?? It's still being sold. 4558 will be a challenge unless you're willing to pay around 300-350 USD. It's the most coveted 9V and been out of production for several years. (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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I would have to go with a #4. I am just guessing that #3 would be too exspensive for me. Chris (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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I am new to this news group and DCC Lego Trains sounds good to me. put me down for a 3 or 4, sorry about the late reply. Robin P.S. 39 days untill the H & R Train Show (St. Petersburg, Florida) See my web page for info: (URL) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi Matt: Great idea with the RCX built into a boxcar. I recently built a coaltender to hide the controller from the barcode reader (same size). I have it programmed to do the chug/chug sound slowly while at speed 0, then to increase the speed of the (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi Matt, Sorry I am late replying to your survey, I haven't had computer access for about a week. Put me down for number 3 or 4. In one of the recent model train magazines they were advertising a voltage regulator, which could limit DCC output to (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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I am new in this meter but I never sow something to stop the trains like a red or green light ( I do not know the name in English) LEGO built this type of parts.Francesco (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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I am Italian and is very difficult to find same trains sets in my country I would like to have the set number 4558 and the 3225 same of you have same suggestion for me where I can find it .Francesco (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: DCC Project Survey
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I'm either a 2 or a 4, depending on how complicated #4 is. Steve (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | DCC Survey Results [DAT]
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Not exactly a huge response, but here are the results... Level[1] Replies 0 0 1 0 2 2 3 8 4 6 5 3 19 total There is certainly some interest but maybe not enough to justify getting a batch of PCBs commercially manufactured for the encoder/controller, (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 4553
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Larry, I think they used those rails on the Launch and Load Seaport (6542) (I have 2!) as well. I never saw a shorter version however. Scott Sanburn (...) (26 years ago, 14-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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