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(...) In two weeks, youth hockey will be over and then I'll have to bring some of my stuff to a GMLTC meeting, just so I can actually put some faces behind some of the names. (26 years ago, 6-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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I've got these instructions but only have a 5 inch wide color hand scanner, but will give it a go. Mark H. (...) (26 years ago, 6-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Which I can attest to. He's clueless. He's been building an 8 stud wide locomotive at the GMLTC(1) meetings 3 weeks in a row now and hasn't progressed much beyond the fuel tanks and frame. Just kidding. John is trying to get it PERFECT. And it (...) (26 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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It is *I* who is more than a little dazed for not knowing those came in the set! Although I have 6, only one is yet opened and assembled by my kids, so I wasn't even aware of them:^p My apologies to you, Paul:) And I applaud you and all other who (...) (26 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: WTB: 6557 (really, really badly) and 6861
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(...) Who, me? I have so many gray noses at this point I may actually sell one off!!! (gulp) and I only have two white ones, so it wasn't me, ok? We're TRACKing your insinuations and would prefer not to be RAILROADed through the court of public (...) (26 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Tom Stangl wrote: (...) Well, rather than SPAM the trains and SF list with website/HTML talk, I've created a small mailing list for the webmasters on the BayLUG site If you have comments and suggestions, you can send them to "weavers" at (...) (26 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.trains)
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(...) While we're being pedantic, it's not TLG that is wrong, it's the US Lego Shop at Home service that is wrong. S@H may be part of TLG but it is not TLG. S@H (and LEGO Systems Inc of North America) seem to make up their own names for things (...) (26 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Blimey! I've just looked those sets up. 2150 is exactly the same as the station I've got, except it's red instead of yellow. That looks incredible. I want one of them as well. Oh dear. I'm not going to have any money at all soon. I'm going to (...) (26 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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Robin, Yes, 4555 is a great set. The only thing I didn't like was the truck design, so I made it look 100% better (In my humble opinion, anyway!) Have fun building it! Isn't that what Lego sets are all about? :) Scott Sanburn (...) (26 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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Hay, The TLG has been wrong for years! Long before Town Jr. just look at some of the old S@H catalogs. Robin :) P.S. I like this set(3225) good parts at good price but I think they can do better. (...) (26 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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Lego Railroaders, I just got my 4555 Freight Loading Station from a friend in Canada. Yes! It was one of the last sets in needed to compete my train collection until the new stuff comes out. Getting this set was tricky, first I tried US S@H but they (...) (26 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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Another plea for scans of 182. I have the head-on image that is the Pause/Lugnet archive. My restoration project can be seen at (URL) I have two big problems right now - figuring out the roof of the passenger cars and figuring out how to attach the (...) (26 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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Larry! What sacrilege. How could TLG be wrong? If they say it is a caboose, it must be! Just put on your Town Jr. glasses and then make a decision as to what it is. (Just kidding, I know it's a coach) (26 years ago, 4-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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I was thinking about buying 3225 and 2126 for having some more cars on my cargo train (I have had trains since 1994, when the first 9V came out, but I just got my city up in September) and I decided on 2126 simply because t had some interesting (...) (26 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) They are only available from Germany and USA IIRC, however I'm trying to get Busy-Bee to import them, they got the 2126 Train Cars and 2150 Retrostation sets from Germany imported from a store, when the manager phoned me (or I phoned him) I (...) (26 years ago, 4-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yes, and welcome to the debate, even if you've come a bit late. Been thrashed around a bit already. I'd probably have let it slide if you hadn't introduced "Pullman" (1) TLG is wrong. A thing is what it is, not what someone claims it is. This (...) (26 years ago, 4-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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I've just finally been spurred by this discussion to go and take a look at the piccy of the train. That looks seriously _cool_. Where do you get them???? Does the fact that I'm in the UK mean I can't get one? *lust* (...) (26 years ago, 4-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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Larry Pieniazek wrote: <snip> (...) This is my first forray into LUGNET.TRAINS, so I'm a fish out of water, (TOWN is my home turf). Thanks Larry, since I'm probably one of the few AFOL's that is building my city in the classic scale (3 bricks high (...) (26 years ago, 4-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Maybe a little woozy. But building town vehicles with the 6 wide windows make them look better. Check out some of the fire truck pages. (26 years ago, 4-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Here is the S@H breakdown: 6x Wheelset (5304) @ $3.50 = $21 4x Buffer/magnet/coupler (5303) @ $3.50 = $14 2x Bogieplates (5302) @ $2.50 = $5 2x Wagon plates[1] (5309) @ $3.00 = $6 Total for those items from S@H would be $46, which is $23.50 (...) (26 years ago, 4-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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