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(...) Well, I forgot my camera, and it's not as good as Chris', Kevins, and James', so I guess it's up to me to use words instead of pictures. Friday I leave work early in the hopes of having enough time to finish getting things ready for the show. (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: GMLTC resorting
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(...) We've spent about 150 (?) man-hours dismantling and sorting so far, we've got 6 sections - of 14 - pretty much done. We build scenery mostly out of 2x2 and 2x4 bricks, so those are sorted by color into large bins. Smaller pieces we were (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 8 wide trolley???
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(...) I'm not sure there is a flame suit strong enough for me to stand in between the two loudest and most argumentative GMLTC members, but being the fool that I am, I'm going to dive in here. How are we measuring width? Widest part of a locomotive (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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"John Neal" <johnneal@uswest.net> wrote in message news:39CFB496.1769C5...est.net... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) resorted.... (...) Purely out of curiousity, how long (man hours?) do you expect it to take to dismantle and resort the layout? I have a (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: NALUG takes 2nd at Great Edmonton Train Show
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(...) well, now that I'm awake, I'll give it a shot. :) The layout was 90" by 120", pretty small, really. As a result it was a bit cramped, especially for whoever was operating at the time. Next time around we should be able to get more layout space (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: New Interurban/Trolley model, perfect for those downtown scenes
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Your model is very nice and has very good detailing. I don't know the original, but I know a good LEGO model when I see one! Fredrik (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) "Technically" 8 wide??? Hmmm....just wondering how that is different than just plain ol' 8 wide.... Freddie Mercury couldn't have said it any better.... (Another one bites the dust;) (...) Yo-- 8 wide is 8 wide:-) (...) Moot point for sure, (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Very nice, Larry. Thanks for posting the images. I'll be interested to see how well it sells. later, James Mathis (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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PS This model is "technically" 8 wide. Hear that John Neal? I say that because it has steps at the center and the bottom step, below the door, sticks out a stud from the body. This is prototypical, but it makes the body 8 wide, just in that spot. (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Well I guess I wish they were a bit shorter but it's not that bad. Proportionally they are about the right length compared to the width of a minifig (A PCC truck is something like 8-10 feet long) but I had to compress the model overall length (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Has anybody used the Duplo tunnel 2939 in a 9V layout?
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(...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Neither LUGNet guide or Brickset show it. Is there a photo somewhere? SRC (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: NALUG takes 2nd at Great Edmonton Train Show
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Fantastic job, NALUG members! When do we get a show report? Size of layout, unique features, who participated, anecdotes, new ideas discussed...... dan parker PNLTC (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) Hi Lar, That looks good. Now that I am reinventing myself in 8-wide I keep thinking about revisiting my trolleys. Specifically, I keep thinking about making a two truck street car. The one thing that keeps holding me back are the size of the (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Dirty little secret (was Re: New Interurban/Trolley model, perfect for those downtown scenes
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(...) problem with a dummy motor is that if the truck has 3 studs between the wheels then the bogie plate nub is of center. Chris (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Well I personally find this spacing quite frustrateing. So much so that I use 2 motors on the engines that I have designed so far because I just don't like the look of the dummy truck mixed with the motor truck. They just don't look right (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(soon to be fixed...) I set the auction time to 10 days because I have a dirty little secret! I haven't designed the dummy truck yet. I knew it would be easy to do and I was running out of time this weekend (1). So the LDraw instructions use two (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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As some of you know, I loaned my "tribute to the PCC" streetcar to PNLTC for their record breaking run. It was visible in the line of rolling stock in the yard. Dan Parker was kind enough to send it (along with the rest of my rolling stock and over (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: NALUG takes 2nd at Great Edmonton Train Show
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(...) That same warning holds true with my batch, which is located here: (URL) mostly between 75k and 140k in size. And the movies are here: (URL) bigred_002, and viewfrmjjmp are huge files - around 5MB. The rest range from 120k to 688k. Any (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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In lugnet.org.ca.nalug, James Brown writes: (some snippage) (...) I'm workin' on it, I'm workin' on it... URL will be posted in due course. In the meantime go enjoy JB's pics. Kevin. (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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