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| (...) What about building? Do you consider building part of playing? I mean, building is a totally different option. You should have put 'playing, collecting, and BUILDING'!! Anyway, I disagree with that. You can collect, play, and build(-::-), all (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Take your sarcasm to RTL... (...) To imply that there are some who participate in LUGNET who are *not* obsessed is a bit of a stretch. Otherwise, why be here? As far as there not being a point to collecting, that is just so obviously wrong (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) O good. I was worried another 24 hours might slip past without you mentioning your deep pockets or someone else's trust fund status. There is no point in collecting, Larry. Sure you can do it -- but all it expresses is obsession. But, to each (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Disagree. You can do both. It just takes deeper pockets. I have a MISB 4558 and a MISB 6399 I probably never will open but I play with 4558s whenever I want. (...) That I agree with. ++Lar (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| I used LEGO as a demo at Comdex one year for some video stuff (an always moving non-human subject). I thought about setting up a tack at the office in a ping-pong config using Mindstorms to control it. But on second thought I'm not sure why I'd do (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) The train is very impressive,the gas-turbine locomotive I've built has four motors.I wonder how powerful this would be in tractive effort? (My layout is way too small to test this!) -Harvey (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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| (...) In general, yes. But SR and N&W tended to run long hood first (for crash protection) so saw no reason to have a low hood on what to them was the "back end", since low hoods actually cost more, IIRC (the steel fab work for a high nose was less (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Southern and Norfolk & Western (predecessor roads of Norfolk Southern) typically got high nose versions of stuff, well into the 80s, IIRC. So I'd say GP38 is very possible although I don't have the Diesel Spotters Guide cite to prove it. Tom (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Actually I am off on hols for 2 weeks now. Perhaps I will come back cured. there isnt a lot of lego in Lanzarote! regards lawrence (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.trains)
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