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Just to clarify a few details about the World Record LEGO Bridge. It is, as far as I know, a World Record length of bridge span - officially measured (with guidance from a bridge engineer) at 16 feet 10 inches. The bridge has been called a (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Questions about train details
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(...) (US practice) Back marker lights are typically always red I think. However for passenger trains there are a number of light colors that may be used as "marker lights". Which are which is escaping me. Green to denote "extra" (non scheduled) and (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Wreck
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(...) Oh boy, can we relate to THAT picture! Except when trains derail on the GMLTC layout, they usually end up falling three feet to the floor. At one show, I was finding pieces to my locomotive underneath the layout next to ours! Dang - now I'm (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | How many ambassador cars did you get?
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Hi, and wow. The long shots reveal just how impressive the PNLTC layout really was. I am curious about the number of ambassador cars that ran at the display. Can you estimate how long, in feet, inches, or meters etc., the ambassador train was? By (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: PNLTC breaks guiness record!
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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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| | Re: Added Instructions to Website
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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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| | Added Instructions to Website
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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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| | Re: PNLTC breaks guiness record!
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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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| | Re: PNLTC breaks guiness record!
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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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| | Re: PNLTC breaks guiness record!
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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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| | Re: PNLTC breaks guiness record!
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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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| | Re: PNLTC breaks guiness record!
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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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| | Re: PNLTC breaks guiness record!
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Congratulations from ItLUG! (...) for (...) crossed. (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: PNLTC breaks guiness record!
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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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| | Re: PNLTC breaks guiness record!
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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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| | Re: What happened to the ambassador cars?
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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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| | Re: PNLTC breaks guiness record!
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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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| | Re: What happened to the ambassador cars?
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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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| | FunBrix Pic of the Week #6
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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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| | Re: PNLTC breaks guiness record!
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(...) Congrats from the FGLTC! Ben (24 years ago, 20-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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