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(...) John It took roughly 30 minutes to run the ~3343 feet of the layout. We maintained a fairly regular speed thru that - hit a few slow spots when we slowed to a crawl. I think we had 6 controllers - each connected to 2-3 track locations - and (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) please (...) One suggestion...put these into a zipfile or make the raw dat file available for download :-) Will Lego Beach Department of Emergency Services www.crosswinds.net/~hokie (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I've recently added instructions to build my wagontop box car. Please check it out at: (URL) . In order to reduce the weight, the instructions differ slightly from the model I built, so if anyone notices any flaws please let me know. If you have any (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I must know - how long did it take for a train to complete a single circuit?? Well done!! JohnG, GMLTC (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) What did you use to power the track? Experience shows that a standard LEGO train regulator wouldn't do the job. How does that affect the record qualifications? KL (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) The silos belong to Matt Chiles. (...) Ah yes, the Palace belongs to Dan Parker. I know I've got more photos of that from the show and also earlier when he brought it over to my house. (...) Oh yes Ben, I remember your bridge. This snap bridge (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) My favorite buildings have been the white grain silos and especially the palace with its great details and lots of cool ideas of unconventional use of bricks. (URL) has built it? Regards, Ben BTW: What has actually been the length of the big (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thank you, I'm still trying to figure out if I survived. :-) (...) Yes, I'd like to thank David Schilling for all the pics, like the ones linked below. (...) Ok, I'll try my best at the buildings here. (URL) Art Deco Theater - Dan Parker Space (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Congratulations from ItLUG! (...) for (...) crossed. (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Actually that is it, 3343 feet of one continuous run, after which we switched (moved track around) over to about 28 separate lines, now that looked cool having that many trains running a once. :-) I think the longest loop at that point was (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thank you, the project was a lot of fun and yes, a whole lot of work (the money part we try to ignore :-). (...) I'll see if I have some pics of these, if not from this show then a previous show. (...) Tom (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Yes, we had all the ambassador cars there, some a little later than others, but we did have all of them there. Thank you very much to all who sent them, it looked great to have all those cars together. Sorry we haven't got many pictures up but it (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.general)
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Congratulations with the record! Also congratulations with the amount of money and work you have put into it! Let get to it: are there some better pictures of these churches? (URL) Original Message ----- From: David VinZant <legotrains@yahoo.com> (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Today I couldn't make it to the PNLTC display until after it was already being taken down, but I finally saw the various ambassador cars. You'll find pictures of the majority of them in the "August20"th folder at (URL) (as well as many other (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.general)
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Hi All, The 6th "FunBrix Pic of the Week" is here! Monorail Transit Station - by: James Mathis. An oldie but goody, this is one of the best stations I have see on the web. Great work James! And if you have time, check out all of his cool train stuff (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Congrats from the FGLTC! Ben (24 years ago, 20-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Congratulations on the record and surviving the /. effect! Thanks to everyone that uploaded all the great pictures of the event. Who made the downtown buildings? They appear to be sub-minifig scale, but they are very, very nice. KL (24 years ago, 20-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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According to the 'tracking' software at www.ups.com, they were delivered on Thursday. That's all the info I can give you! JohnG, GMLTC (...) (24 years ago, 20-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.general)
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(...) Well done everyone - just curious about the actual continuous train run Ben - what was the length of the longest 'loop'? Jon (...) (24 years ago, 20-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi all, I have been looking at the great picture of the PNLTC G2K Event by David Schilling on BrickShelf.com ((URL) They are cool and packed with MOC’s, but I don’t see any of the ambassador boxcars from the Kidvention. You know the ones GMLTC had (...) (24 years ago, 20-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.general)
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