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This looks like a great get together for LEGO Train fans in Germany!!!! Thanks for taking and posting the photos. Beautiful building fronts. I like the roadway with lower trackside. Well done. Many good creations, new and old, in a very nice forum. (...) (24 years ago, 16-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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Greetings Florida LEGO Fans, In less then two week the Brick’n Fun Fest kicks off in Orlando, Florida! The home base of the fest is the Greater Florida LEGO Train Club display at the Great American Train Show. We will have our main display plus (...) (24 years ago, 16-Oct-00, to lugnet.loc.us.fl.orl, lugnet.loc.us.fl, lugnet.events, lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains) !
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(...) John, Your locomotive is quite excellent. However,it looks more to me like a GP-40 (without dynamic brakes) rather than an SD-50. The GP-40 is a four motor diesel, and your engine is a dead ringer. -Harvey (24 years ago, 16-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I was going to suggest checking Kevin's GP 38, but I also wanted to suggest my design. (URL) also thought about using thread and little antennas/joy sticks. If the thread is held taught, and glued to the antennas it might look right. Oh, I (...) (24 years ago, 16-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) The motors are not symmetrical - if they're on the 'wrong' way they hang up on the stairs. It's a *very* close fit! And I have no idea if it will handle the grades that the GMLTC is planning for our next layout... JohnG, GMLTC (24 years ago, 15-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Thanks Frank, for sharing these great pictures with us. I'm just trying to upload further photographs I have taken in Muelheim and in Dinslaken at Ralfs home. I really enjoyed this day and the meeting with so many people I only knew by postings in (...) (24 years ago, 15-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hi Frank, well done - fantastic pictures are following a fantastic day in Muelheim and Ralf's garden. Some words about my red-white-crane. Like my train-crane (the yellow one) the inspiration came from a real GOTTWALD crane. That company used (...) (24 years ago, 15-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Go for it - if it's in the interest of increasing the recognition factor, go right ahead. Lego uses stickers, why can't you? (...) Check out my 8-wide GP-38-2, at (URL) picture in question includes some rough digital enhancements for the (...) (24 years ago, 15-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Today a couple of AFOLs met in Muelheim. It was great to meet all those people you only know by email and LUGNET postings! In the morning there was a sale in Muelheim and in the afternoon we build a big loop in the back of someone's garden (I think (...) (24 years ago, 15-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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I just posted the first couple of pictures of my Union Pacific SD-50 model. (URL) to the 'purists': I used a small amount of red striping tape to make the horizontal line around the cab. I'm still debating using some decals to add some detail to the (...) (24 years ago, 15-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains)
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