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(...) Thanks. Actually, it is this photo: (URL) after I tinkered in Photoshop with it. (...) Ooh, good idea! I'll have to remember that on the next round of pics:-) -John (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Looks cool John, did you add the light effect or did the picture just come out that way? Needs a lone signal man watching the engine go by. jt (...) ---...--- James J. Trobaugh North Georgia LEGO Train Club (URL) (24 years ago, 8-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Although the Milwaukee Road's famed passenger train named the Hiawatha wasn't an overnight express but a daily from Minneapolis to Chicago (both ways), darkness arrives early in December in Wisconsin. Here is a pic of my Hi steaming back to (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Bryan, I posted a description of the door setup at almost the same time you posted this message. So heres a link... (URL) Kingsley, The New England LEGO Users Group (URL) My Creations at: (URL) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I need to consider going bufferless. Thanks to my purchases of 6716 to get cannon for my pirate ships I have a TON of those 2x3 rounded plates with hole in black. (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thanks, I will try that at some point although I don't have a lot of technic plates to work with either. Probably enough for a couple cars but not a lot. The 2x2 tile is a great idea I should have thought of that. (...) Cool so I can let my (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Eric, Very nice work. I can't see exactly how the fake doors are done. Can you (or someone) give me some pointers on using a plate as a sliding door? Bryan Kinkel (still working on his first MOC engine) "Eric Kingsley" <kingsley@nelug.org> wrote in (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I just totally disagree, it is a very weak connection, you can't pick the car up by the body, the trucks fall off. But it's cheap, those parts are easy to come by and you save a lot of plates in the floor. (...) Mr. 8Wide: "<ppssss-chhhhhuh> (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Very nice try. Lots of good detail. Since you don't have bogie plates (which are cheap, go get some) or a floor plate (which I feel isn't worth the money, doing it with regular plates is the way to go) another alternative to the turntable (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Good work Eric! I think this could be the beginning of an expensive hobby! Regards Ben (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains)
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