 | | Re: Q: 4547 (Tourist/Club car) availability in the UK
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(...) They were as readily available as any other train item in the UK in 1993 & 1994, which means only in a few very good shops David (26 years ago, 20-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Greater Midwest LEGO Train Club (GMLTC)
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Larry, Oops! OK, sounds like a plan to me! I am a little confused on where most of the meetings and showings are. Any info would be appreciated! Scott Sanburn (...) (26 years ago, 20-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Greater Midwest LEGO Train Club (GMLTC)
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Not unless there were Lego's for that number, you see... ;) Scott Sanburn (...) (26 years ago, 20-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: high speed railways and strange flat bed cars
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(...) Hi Chris, I did just this with my #4559 about 18 months ago. I built stretched 2 wheel "Super bogies" that support the ends of adjacent cars. And, since the train end (tail) has the same s-bogie, I fashioned a tailcap that continues the train (...) (26 years ago, 20-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Greater Midwest LEGO Train Club (GMLTC)
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Yes, and the fact that you live close enough for a "drop"-- remember, bills *must* be unmarked, low denomination and in non sequential order. No funny stuff or you can kiss the membership card bbye;-) (...) (26 years ago, 19-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Greater Midwest LEGO Train Club (GMLTC)
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(...) At least you haven't asked for my cc number yet. Must be the vehicle bribe I offered. (26 years ago, 19-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Q: 4547 (Tourist/Club car) availability in the UK
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Hi, We were lucky enough to secure one of these Tourist/Club cars in a second hand sale last night and the thought occurred to me - Just how rare are these in the UK? (Or anywhere else to that matter...) I don't recall seeing them in the shops, so (...) (26 years ago, 19-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) Some very fancy engineering...you are not kidding. The car has to swing like a pendulum (or would LEGO shock absorbers have enough give to allow the the bottom of the car to swing out--maybe weights would help by adding a bit more inertia for (...) (26 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 12V train early 70th
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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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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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