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Yes, you are welcome in the GMLTC Scott. Please send credit card number to my email address to cover dues;-) J2 (...) (26 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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Larry makes a great point! ("don't let the fact that someone has already tried to build a model/car keep you from trying") I was inspired to build mine after standing about 10 feet from a 9-segment spine car passed at very slow speed, with 2-high (...) (26 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Whoo hoo! Found four blue train windows
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Wow, last night while looking for a clear red 1x1 cylinder I found 4 blue "train windows" without glass in my "Robor Command Center" (URL) I then spent 20 minutes checking all my other sets...bummer no other surprises. Chris (26 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Well, I gasped, but my opinion of you has not gone down (you do not paint bricks to get the colors you want, do you?) Lego make such a limitted selection of track that it can be annoying, especially the points. Didn't someone come up with a (...) (26 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) What do you mean by January trains? This news group in Januray? Also, where do you get most of your information, books about real trains, books about model trains, modeling magazines? I keep saying that I am going to get this book The Great (...) (26 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) yes you can. Create a custom element starting with the 9V straight but cut down to fit. You'll need to post the element file so it can be imported. (...) Shocked. Just Shocked. (that there's cutting going on here) Arrest the usual suspects. (26 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yes, but use them to get ideas, not to reject working on your own creations!!! There are SO MANY different kinds of container articulateds in the prototype that we modelers have bareley scratched the surface. Keep building. No one has done a (...) (26 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Greater Midwest LEGO Train Club (GMLTC)
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(...) Who says there isn't? I said it was a low structure group. You're in michigan. I am too. so there is. :-) (26 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Recycle truck hook (was Re: Older Dacta Community Vehicles IS still available at Kaplan
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O! I forgot about coastal cutter, and I even HAVE that set. It's used to pick up the boat, IIRC. (...) (26 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 12V train early 70th
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Joshua, your reorg is great. but can you break up 12V trains into two words so that a search using theme=trains finds them all instead of just 9V and 4.5V? (26 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Confession time: We can't do a Track Designer (r?) layout because we cut (gasp!) a few pieces of straight track to make things fit... I know, I know - the opinion of us in the Lego train community just took a major dive... The parallel tracks (...) (26 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi All, I've been searching all the discount and second hand bookshops for books on trains and yesterday hit the jackpot. Found two great references each selling for about $15.00 new! The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Steam & Rail by Colin Garratt and (...) (26 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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I thought that 080 was from 1969, that's the catalog I've got with my set. I'd have to do some checking on that, I've still got the box too. I can definately say it is Samsonite era Lego. Never heard it called Ambassador Train, though never was able (...) (26 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) beautiful . (...) Hi, Do you have an ICQnumber already? Mine is 30823064, nickname Markassius Mark Follow up set to -off-topic-FUN (26 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Recycle truck hook (was Re: Older Dacta Community Vehicles IS still available at Kaplan
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(...) [Sorry I'm coming in late on this one] There are two different elements involved, and they're in at least three sets, actually: 1x4 Spring Cage, Hinge Connect, 3M Qty Color Set U.S. Set Name Year Theme --- ----- ---- ---...--- ---- ---...--- 1 (...) (26 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 080 Ambassador Train Set
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(...) Is the set this one? (URL) only recently added this entry to Pause. -- joshua (26 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 12V train early 70th
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(...) This is exactly why I recently recategorized the trains at Pause :) Try this link: (URL) what you're looking for one of the first three? -- joshua (26 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Semi-ADMIN: Pause Train Reference Improvement Work in Good Shape
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A big friendly whistle blast to all... :-P Summary: ------- I've re-categorized all the 4.5v and 12v trains entries on the Pause section of LUGNET. Check it out and let everyone know what you think (I already know that 726 is missing -- we have no (...) (26 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yep, pretty darned sure. It's a "Train" element in my estimation. Am I positive? No: "Only fools are positive." (...) If I recall correctly, Joe Lahrer has specifically stated as trivia that there has been only one (or is it two?) Technic/EB (...) (26 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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OK OK I get the point..been there done that. I guess I need to spend more time looking at all your web sites. Sorry for overlooking/forgetting some of the things that have been done out there! Chris (...) (26 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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