| | Pictures of flatcar loads for our MOC's
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While searching for possible candidate loads for my flatcar, I came across this... (URL) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Commuter train reference?
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I took a trip to a client site yesterday and had the opportunity to ride the Amtrak Metroliner and the Long Island Railroad. I saw lots of neat commuter trains and passenger stops along the way. Is there a web reference site with pictures of (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Rhombic pantograph & ItLUG wagon section
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(...) Hi,Lar, the wagon is in effect sturdier than it seems,because ,due to the large surfaces of contact,there's a lot of friction between 6wide sections (red ones,in my sketch) and 5.6wide ones (blue ones),so when you put the two sides in their (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: southern michigan train club
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(...) Kai, I would be most willing to discuss a train club division of our planned MichLUG. The meeting is *PLANNED* for October 7th. Email me if you want more info. Rick (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: What is the rarest Lego Train set?
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(...) Rarest train sets (my opinion a s a collector) 118 119 722 116 113 167 7750 7760 7730 7740 .. 4564 ... 4547 .. 4558 As you may see: the older the set is, the harder to find. And of course it's the market: 4558 has been sold worldwide in a big (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: My flatcar is ready for viewing
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(...) Impressive model, Harvey! I would suggest somthing quite usual like a big wooden box, or maybe somthing like a ship diesel. A bad idea would be somthink like a space shuttle: that steals the show and is not too realistic... ;-) Regards, Ben (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | What is the rarest Lego Train set?
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Hi there! I have never posted on the Train part but I was just curious, what is the rarest Train set out there? Can someone please e-mail me what they think? Thanks a lot. :-) Brendan Duck360198@aol.com (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: southern michigan train club
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check out lugnet.loc.us.mi Some people have been trying to get one going. I think they are going for an Oct 7th meeting. Ryan -- reply to: rjschave at home dot com (URL) <cbrodersen@mediaone.net> wrote in message news:G0uwu7.5H5@lugnet.com... (...) (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | southern michigan train club
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i think their should be a Southern michigan train club! Any one is welcome to e-mail me and get started on planning! e-mail me at cbrodersen@mediaone.net (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | TLGs trains
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Have you ever noticed that TLGs trains have become extremely different then the older sets. Frankly some of the newer sets such as railway express dont apeal to me. The look too childish and now its getting even hader to get I think all of us should (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Rhombic pantograph & ItLUG wagon section
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(...) holding the two sides together (or to the rest of the car) other than the special 1.3 thick connection point. But sacrifices in sturdyness must be made for the sake of art! Thanks for sharing. ++Lar (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Matt's LEGO Train Depot
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(...) <snip> Not a bad list but I think the number one thing that is needed, taking priority over your "tweaks" is to open up the .tdr... what i mean by that is that right now you can add things to your .tdr but there is no way to share .tdrs with (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | My flatcar is ready for viewing
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This is my first pic dealing with my 12-axle,heavy duty depressed center flatcar. Construction was very simple, anybody should be able to duplicate my efforts. As always with most of my MOC's, this car is red. Now if I can only decide on a proper (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Rhombic pantograph & ItLUG wagon section
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(...) Very clever designs indeed! And of course more than clear enough: your drawing abilities are far over the average of our engineer students. "Leg Godt!" Ben (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | Rhombic pantograph & ItLUG wagon section
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Hi all, Here are two hand-drawn sketches that should explain to you how my pantograph is made.... (URL) how I succeeded in realizing the 1/5 stud inwards-offset sides of ItLUG wagon (6wide) and DB Cargo wagon (8wide): (URL) thanks to Sergio (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Matt's LEGO Train Depot new home
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Thanks to Matt and You for bringing the site back to live. It was a great train resource until now and will be in the future ... I'm sure. What will happen to the track-designer ... is Matt continuing development or could someone take over his job? (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Motorized Train Bumper
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I have created a motorized train bumper that will do the folloiwng: 1) Stop a train car at the end of a train track. (eg. A switching rail that does not come back to the main line) 2) When commanded either via an RCX or manually the device will push (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Matt's LEGO Train Depot
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(...) Note: I would prefer an email response as well on this. Would you be preaped to act as Trains editor for the fan-zine? At least that way material can be shared between the two (a kind of 'by kind permisson of...') or at least not duplicated (...) (24 years ago, 12-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Matt's LEGO Train Depot new home
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Manfred, No I haven't sent a direct message to Todd yet, but it's on my list. I know there are hundreds of links on the web to the site and it will take time to get them all redirected. But Matt has agreed to update the old site location with a link (...) (24 years ago, 12-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Matt's LEGO Train Depot new home
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(...) some contributions by me also. I trust you've already send a message to Todd Lehman requesting him to update the link mentioned on the Lugnet.trains page ? As a result of your mail, I did revisit "Martt's Train Depot" after a long time. I've (...) (24 years ago, 12-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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