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(...) Cool, I remember when I realized that the 6x8 ultra low slope was the perfect slope for a box car roof. It occurred to me right about the time that the box cars were being sent to the PNLTC 2K event. Then I remembered that you used that slope (...) (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I built the Big Boy and Garrett around the dimesions of the technic gray pulley. It seemed to be the correct size to use as a driver. So I scaled the real train dimensions down to match the driver to the pulley, then built the train to those (...) (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Ah...I suspected that. <moment of silence> </moment of silence> Sorry, to here about your loss. Regards, Chris (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) This is actually a bit of a hybrid. The table top dimensions are the same as WAMALTC but the leg design is the same as PNLTC. The table tops are 40.5"x40.5" which is the same as 4 32x32 baseplate by 4 32x32 baseplate. (...) Yah actually we (...) (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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Eric Kingsley wrote in message ... (...) show (...) layout (...) RECENT vlc "FIRST SHOW" EXPERIENCE): (oops caps lock!) Are your tables 4 baseplate by 4 baseplates? Is this a variation on the PNLTC standard tables, or have you developed your own? (...) (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I think you are right but my problem what that I didn't have enough 2x2 rounds for the pillars so I had to use the long POOP type pillars that come in the Fright Knight's castle. Actually you know what... I think I might have enough 2x2 rounds (...) (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi Erich I like both off them,but i think on your commutor station, you maade the 2 wings too high, i think it would look more realistic if you would have started the roofs lower, making the roof from the house part go higher then the wings, but of (...) (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Folks I finally finished my Brown Gondola. I think the pictures are pretty self explanitory. (URL) also created a small commuter rail station. (URL) of these will be debuted at the Willmington Massachusetts Greenburg show December 2nd and 3rd. For (...) (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: James Mathis really has caught the 8-wide bug!
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(...) A small joke. I had a bit of a hard drive failure on my 600x. I'm mostly back, with the exception of about a dozen mails that were in my outbound mailbox that I need to figure out how to rescue, and with the exception of the fact that I can't (...) (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) The 6x8 ultra low slope was the sole inspiration for me building 14 wide, and the 1x2 gray corrugated and the 1x1x1.3 half rounds inspired my 8 wide passenger cars. -John (...) (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.trains)
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