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(...) That's understandable,i now have 3 kids old enough to build with myself.By the way ,i agree with you when you say the airport shuttle is the best town set ever made! (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I do. I simply don't have time to update it any more. Now that my kids are old enough to play with Lego, I build stuff with them rather than spend time updating my website. Matt (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I've tried this one with a Technic motor driving a cogwheel and carrying its own battery pack. It worked fairly well but I was disappointed to discover that it was outperformed (in terms of maximum incline) by an old 4.5V train motor using (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Gosh, Thanks Steve! Imitation is surely one form of praise. However, what you've done is taken a few of my ideas and taken them a few steps further with your own innovations. Notably the use of 4x4 round bricks with half of a 4x4 turntable (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Nice! I love to see steam engines. Nice use of purple too. The original autotrain used purple, and I am always reminded of it when I see purple trains. "sebarile-MOBL" <steve.e.barile@intel.com> wrote in message news:G04s58.IB6@lugnet.com... (...) (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Or skip the Lego train motor altogether and use batteries. If you need more control, build in an RCX. /Eric McC/ (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(snip) (...) I'd use a extension cord aproach, instead. It lets you get away with a weird width, and would eliminate using a extra motor as dead ballast weight to pull up and down. I'm now trying to think how to make a real funicular using lego and (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) <snip> (...) Well, if you're willing to use 9v track and a regular train motor, I'd observe that there is a power connection on top of the train motor, noramlly used for lights. So even though the train motor is slipping, it can provide (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Thank guys! It's always an encouragement to get positve comments from the masters! Not to mention both of you guys have been a tremendous inspiration for me and I'm sure all of lugnet.train guys. It's really great to have the web and lugnet to share (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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So far we have seen some examples of a funicular railways, let take a look at them the first one - don't know how i drives (if at all) how can they drive: * 2 tracks and a chain - can probably be done with a wire in Lego * tooth railway (coqwheel (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) all of our pictures ((URL) were taken with a mavica 88 (I think that's the model - not the 83, not the 91)... I love it - I like the macro capabilities on it, and I love the floppy disks :) Dan (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) There are two operating inclines in Pittsburgh, the Duquesne and the Monongahela. The Monongahela is operated by the city port authority while the Duquesne is run by a not-for-profit org. IMO, Duquesne is the neater of the two for much of the (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) What seperates a "funicular" from an "incline" besides being in a French-speaking area? eric (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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There's one in Niagara Falls, ONT too...it's a true Funicular, runs from Table Rock up to Clifford St. James (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) And, if we're going to bring inclines into it, there's one in Pittsburgh: (URL) I think there's another one, too, but I actually rode the Duquesne (that doo-kane) Incline, so it's the one I remember. eric (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) It's the ISO standard, when you see (if you ever have) a container ship listing, it will be for xyz TEU- for example, ASL Sanderling (that cruises between here and somewhere else, Halifax I think) has roughtly 5x8x4.5x2=360 TEU (which is (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Hey everybody, I just purchased a Sony Mavica series 85 digital camera. Is there anybody out there who uses this particular model to photograph their Train MOC's? I thought a floppy disc camera would be the best for this type of stuff. I'm looking (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) My wife and I rode one in St. Moritz, at the eastern end of the Swiss mountain railway system. It was a wonderful view from the top - the Alps were visible reaching into Austria and Italy, all covered with a layer of fresh snow. Steve (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Great design, Steve! I like the front of the boiler and the details of the drivers cab as well as the coulor of that engine. "Leg Godt!" Ben my homepage: (URL) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) standard (...) 5-wide is definitely the best looking solution. I think it might look even a little better if you build them not in the same height as the 6-wides... "Leg Godt!" Ben (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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