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Michel Magnan <m_magnan@telusplanet.net> wrote in message news:FysE9n.9nt@lugnet.com... (...) September (...) following. (...) We here at the NGLTC have never been require to use "fire retardant" skirts. So found that a few sets of colored sheets (...) (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) When we did the NMRA show we (GMLTC) were required to use fire retardant material. (...) I know the PNLTC uses ropes and plexiglass and swears by them. We at the GMLTC use nothing. We find that 99% of the people and kids are respectful of the (...) (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) It adds to the look. It _should_ be fire-retardant. If you are going out to buy it, (and have the $$$) I would get fire-retardant material. Otherwise, ask at the store you get the material from, (me thinks it is Borax you wash it in, and (...) (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Hello seasoned Lego train fans. In preparation for Northern Alberta LUGs first public train show on September 23 and 24, I was wondering if you could give me some advice on the following. 1) Skirt for tables (BTW, I have copied the PNLTC tables), (...) (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I had another idea today while I was....ahh...standing around. A square technic beam may be able to hold the coupler straight. If a peg is place in the hole second (maybe the first hole would work to) from the end of the beam in pull mode the peg (...) (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I was thinking of using the "spring" to center the coupler when it was not coupled. This way you could back up to the car and couple without having to manually align the coupler. When negotiating turns the spring would allow the coupler to swing, (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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A "full length" High Cube Box Car is 86 feet long. That's what I was going for with mine, but it was too long to negotiate the curves, so I shortened it considerably. High Cubes came in many lengths from 40 feet to 60 feet to 86 feet. "John Neal" (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Preliminary tests suggest that my design idea may work. The problem is that if I use 2 3x3 wing plates with a 1 stud gap between them the mechanism is 7 studs wide. Obviously, 7 studs wide is not going to work on a 6-wide design. On an 8-wide design (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) The enclosed car carriers, Autoracks, are about 90' long, and they dwarf the signle door box cars on the trains that I see. I know...you are talking about box cars, but I had nothing to say about box cars that had not alread been said... (...) (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) the (...) even (...) size (...) There is an upper limit on length somewhere in the 80-100 foot range, and there is an upper limit on height as well. Of course width is the most tighly constrained. HiCubes (what the B&O boxcar Paul is referring (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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