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(...) Oh, I'll take this bait: LEGO paid about 80% of the costs to get the GMLTC and our layout out to Carlsbad. That's it. That's *every* "sponsorship" deal the GMLTC has ever received. We lose money on every show we do, even the occasional show (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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I went to fast of with this mail.... sorry the price cannot have been that low, prices here are usually almost the same as than lugnet's, I guess more correct it was some 140 USD.. still cheaper that lugnet though Secondly, I have rebuild my (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I fouind one in a shop in Pärnu (southern Estonia) last summer.... paid 1800 EEK for it = 128 USD at that time. I'm stilll loking for parts to build more.... ----- Original Message ----- From: Braden Fox <bdbfox@hotmail.com> To: (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) track cleaning car? This car uses a brass roller wrapped in handi-wipe material and wetted with a citrus cleaner called Goo-Gone. I had thought about developing a LEGO version myself. The problem here would be that the roller needs plenty of (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Ooh, that looks like it is much sturdier than mine. I think I'll try it your way. Thanks, Chris (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) use of thin walls for the box car door. I used a design similar to the trailer doors a while back on a couple of my own models: (URL) minds think alike :) --Bram (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Well, even though I said I wouldn't be making any rolling stock for a while, I made some anyway. I made a flat bed with a truck trailer on it and a box car. The highlights are that both the box car and the trailer have makeshift working doors. (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Sounds like a great pruduct, but what i've always aimed for was a train that could tug a track cleaner as the last car possibly, and using ONLY lego pieces clean the tracks, i finally got some street cleaner parts level with the track, but they just (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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You do have a website right? i believe i've seen it, i sorta reconize the e-mail. Did you build a large conrail loco? are you the guy with at least two clubcarsfor your metroliner though? Wish i'd been able to buy it at a REGULAR price, i'm now (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I've been using a product called Rail-Zip to clean my track. Besides cleaning, it also improves conductivity without harming the plastic track itself. Pacer Technology manufactures this and you should find these at any well-stocked hobby shop. They (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Braden, I got one for 139.00+tax in 1992 at TRU. But wish I would of got 2... Build on... Robin W GFLTC (...) for (...) layout (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I hope this doesn't belong in the market place! I'm sorry if it's off topic for this section, i don't know. I'm in the process of building a lego town, with a big train line circling it, actually 3 train lines. The next step in my layout design, (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Actually I was thinking about the height. (sorry I did not point that out) Also the forklift piece I'm talking about was the one from the red Airplane set from mid eighties. -Jeremy (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Not a 4 wide trailer! I think that a 6 wide trailer would hold a small forklift, though. Mike J.W.Hummer <mr_spin_2000@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:G0Dy0r.5pM@lugnet.com... (...) (24 years ago, 4-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Since where on the trailer size subject. Has anyone built a forklift that would fit inside the trailer. -Jeremy www.geocities.com/spincity999 (24 years ago, 4-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) You can use the metal polishing product called "Brasso" along with a cotton polishing cloth (I use old t-shirt bits), and then wash the Brasso residue off of your bricks in some combination of liquid detergent (I use "Simple Green") and water. (...) (24 years ago, 4-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: WWLTA (was: Calling all MOCs)
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(...) Right now, I doubt there is a real need to have a "WWLTC". Although some aspects of what PNLTC and GMLTC have done are not widely publicised (for example, the exact sponsorship deals that both GMLTC and PNLTC have recieved) this info is (...) (24 years ago, 4-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) Awesome idea Robin! /Eric McC/ (24 years ago, 4-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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A number of these pictures also appeared in ideas book #240 - see (URL) Whytcross" <b_whytcross@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:G0Czt7.DBv@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) because (...) have (...) (24 years ago, 4-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) inverted arches + each two 2x1x1 Palisade bricks from Legoredo Ben (24 years ago, 4-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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