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(...) 12v Trains is two words. All three (9, 4.5, 12) are. The fact that a match on theme=Trains works at all is because the indices have not gotten cleaned up yet; most all items were first "themed" at Trains, with the secondary characteristic set (...) (26 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: high speed railways and strange flat bed cars
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Just a copuple weeks ago I took the train from Portland to Seattle. It s was the Amtrak (Talgo) passenger train. It has only one axle between cars. I tried to find some pics but ran out of time here is a URL (URL) plan to make one, I think this one (...) (26 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Sorry, should have Capitalized. the January issue of Trains Magazine, published by Kalmbach. I can't comment on the book, haven't seen it. (26 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Greater Midwest LEGO Train Club (GMLTC)
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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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| | Re: strange flat bed cars
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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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| | Re: More GMLTC pics
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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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| | Re: More GMLTC pics
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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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