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I'm sorry i asked, you guys are killing me! Everyone got a good deal except me! I'm about to go spend 250 USD on a USED one for gods sake! argh!!!!! Oh, and Chris, maybe i'm clueless, but what are those pieces holding the top and bottom of your (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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THAT IS NOT FUNNY. I was actually in Southern Estonia last summer, and saw a lego outlet type place, and after some discussion it was decided to keep walking onwards to the center of the town. Are you telling me there was a metroliner on it's shelf (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Has anyone got an example very fast train nose that is not made from the standard lego train nose. I have seen one example, the orange japanese bullet train (can't remember which web site but its done by someone famous :-)). I like it but i am after (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I swapped a 6067 Guarded Inn and a 6061 Siege Tower for mine. I think the whole deal cost me $32 or so, including shipping (that's what I paid for the 6067 and 6061). Alan (...) for (...) layout (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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In lugnet.trains, Braden Fox writes: <Snip> (...) I payed 150$ CAN (100$US)for mine in 1995. I got it from a small store that had put it on special because the box had some shelf ware. For your layout, have you considered a soccer stadium or a race (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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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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