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(...) it (...) Hi John, I'm fine, although yesterday was the last day of my summer hollidays... Since I do own much more 12V stuff than 9V (especially track), I will let this engine be a 12V version. But I really think about painting a 9V motor in (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) How about 8 thick-n-wide... :) It does sound a bit funny in German tho' Interpret well, Andreas Stabno (URL) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) My understanding of it is that if the engine has both Dynamic Brakes and a Steam heater, that problems with space resulted, so you ended up with a high nose. I also think that this is less true in the more modern engines, which usually have (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I do not know about the EMD GP38 or the SD40-2, but usually the high nose was for generating steam for passneger trains. I am sure if I have this info wrong I'll be corrected, but I think I am right. Chris (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Wow, that is simply an elegant layout. It looks deceptively simple. All ther great ones make it look easy. I look forward to seeing the layout fully fleshed out. Chris (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, lugnet.space)
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In lugnet.trains, John Neal writes:h (...) What the heck does "eight thickly and fat mean?" Alan (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) It was pointed out to me that I may have been a touch insensitive in this remark and I want to apologise to Abner. For some reason I had always thought he was being greenmailed, which is a situation I'd love to be in, and I've always been (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains, lugnet.market.appraisal)
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I have made my initial stab at changes to the LUGMAP and have placed them up for review on the LUGMAP development site: (URL) following is a list of changes please let me know if I missed anything. Followups to lugnet.org 1. Referances and links to (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.org, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.org.it, lugnet.org.nl, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.general)
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(...) Hmmm..... A thousand and *two* uses for duct tape;-) Welcome to trains! Two suggestions (besides the duct tape) 1) Don't feel like to have to build from the instructions, and b) don't feel like you have to build 6 wide;-) FU to .trains -John (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Wie gehts, Ben! You have built yourself a very fine model! I really like it when folk build MOCs which relate to their region. Are you going to convert it to 9 volt, or keep it 12? (...) For now...;-) -John "acht dick und fett" [1] Neal [1] (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yes, go another stud wide;-) (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I'm sure I'll get outgunned by my reply but: top middle is a 9 volt track connection wire. It's available from S@H for 5.99 (#5305) top left are two buffers, couplers, one with and one without the magnet; the complete pair is S@H 2.99 (#5303) left (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) oh no! anything that can be done to save you??:-) That train is awesome. Nice realistic detail; I like the mountains in the background too. Tim (24 years ago, 24-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Now I'm half way into hell (hi to John Neal): I have build a quite massive 7-wide steam engine after a BR 03 of the German Federal Railway! That was one of the fastest steam engines out of German prtoduction. You can find it (including some little (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) The yellow 4.5 V motor was part of universal sets 404 and 744 out of the 70ies. (URL) Lego train set has ever had a yellow motor. Regards, Ben (24 years ago, 24-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I have spent so much time looking through your cool sites, that I now have to make it shorter here: Just great! Kind Regards, Ben (24 years ago, 24-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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"John Neal" <johnneal@uswest.net> wrote in message news:397CB609.952CFB...est.net... (...) see (...) Yes, I worked from prototype photos. Southern Railway liked high nose units. (...) wide I (...) hmmm....yes. I will try that. Thanks for the idea. (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) The next pictures I put up are likely to be the "How to Build a Mountain" series showing the internal construction details of the mountian the tunnel runs through. Most of them are already taken and a some of the text will be taken from my (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jul-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, lugnet.space)
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(...) The history of the colony has been divided into various stages of development with the high level details of what happens during each stage. (There's even a zoning plan to control what will go where.) There are several more stages to go, each (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jul-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, lugnet.space)
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Great work, Tom. I like the layout of your page-- very clean. And great looking MOCs. You are too good for 6 wide (come to the dark side;) (...) I found the high noses on your EMDs interesting. Are you working from specific pics? I wasn't aware of (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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