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(...) Michel, I was once a member of Ntrak,and they have developed many methods of displaying their portable layouts.They may give you a few good ideas... Harvey Henkelman (24 years ago, 6-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Tomorrow afternoon (8/6/00) the North Carolina LEGO Users Group will exhibit for the first time. The display will be set up a stationary caboose that belongs to the New Hope Valley Railway in Bonsal, North Carolina (about 15 miles south of Raleigh). (...) (24 years ago, 6-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.nclug, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.nc, lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral)
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| | What's up PNLTC?
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PNLTC members, There has not been any news recently on the PNLTC/LEGO Guinness record event in Seattle, Washington. What’s going on, is there anything new to report? Did you (PNLTC) get all of the ambassador boxcar and containers from GMLTC? What (...) (24 years ago, 6-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: MTW Wishlist
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I am talking more about the commuter ones. (24 years ago, 5-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I now us a roll of LEGO printed cardboard I got from a LEGO rep. (...) I don't use plexiglass or rope. I use expanding trellis attached to posts set in concrete in plastic flower pots. I have it about 1 metre away from the display. It allows (...) (24 years ago, 5-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:Fyto4E.4JI@lugnet.com... (...) are (...) I remember seeing a car that uses the glass from the Naboo Fighter, that one looked a lot different than the club car. I can't remember who (...) (24 years ago, 5-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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John Kelly <jkelly69@skypoint.com> wrote in message news:FytKn4.G2w@lugnet.com... (...) try (...) to (...) John, How high off the ground is the track on y'alls layout? Since ours is just at 30" on plywood the little one seem to have no trouble (...) (24 years ago, 5-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Do you mean a commuter bilevel, an Amtrak superliner, or one of the custom "cruise train" cars used in Alaska and elsewhere. The latter two are possible, my worry is that they will come out looking a lot like Club Car. Thanks for the idea, (...) (24 years ago, 5-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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We actually didn't buy a fire resistant cloth, my wife had it treated at a local dry cleaners. The national show required it of us before we could display last summer. I don't know why we never really have problems with people destroying the layout. (...) (24 years ago, 5-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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How about one of those cool looking double decker passenger cars? (24 years ago, 5-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Down here in Florida, we used the cheapest fabric we can find (WalMart $1 Yard). Non of the shows we do require us to use fire retardant skirts. (...) We use 30 inch high plexiglass and we don’t stop there we put a roof on top and a wall in (...) (24 years ago, 5-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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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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