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(...) Nope, it's all you need (for pictoral reference, anyway). From left to right: 2x2 bricks, in towers. Height on these will vary depending on how high/stable you want your structure. IIRC, GMLTC uses 5 high towers, Mike P. uses 6 high. Both (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) "re-inventing the wheel". The link seems to only provide a hint though - it looks like one step in an instruction book of dozens? SRC StRuCtures (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Cool! Really looks like it might have appeared in the 12V line. Excellent use of clear bricks. One question: I like the way you used the 1x2 with handle plate on the sides, but what did it represent. A door? Maybe I'm not familiar enough with (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi train folks, I just build a model of the old Berlin suburban train! Ok, it's not my invention, I have see this model at Maik's and David's LEGO homepage ((URL) and (URL) and thought this could be a nice way to use my three red baseplates out of (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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"Michael Pratt" <mpratt@cix.co.uk> wrote in message news:memo.2000121417...k.co.uk... (...) Do you mean having a passing line like this crude diagram, where there are two switches to allow a length of parallel track? ----<=====>----- If so, you (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hey Kim- Glad to help out someone off the plywood;-) John Gerlach posted on his Brickbay page the pattern we at the GMLTC have perfected. Check it out here: (URL) careful up there at 5 bricks high-- you might need oxygen;-D -John (J-2) (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I'm working on a module for the PNLTC display at GATS next year (in Feb) and I'm interested in building up a bit of a Lego landscape similar to the GMLTC modules. Now don't go thinking I've totaly abandoned plywood. I'm still a dyed-in-the-wool (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Sure. I just finished putting away all the loose pieces from our earlier parting-out, and from recent purchases. I'm finally using the six sets of drawers I've got! I'll be out of town over the holidays, but should be back on the 29th, and (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Hard to find 12v track at Georgia LEGO Outlet store
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The Georgia LEGO Outlet store has recieved a shipment of hard to find 12v track, and some other little goodies. Train: 7858 12v switch points 19.60 7850 12v/4.5v straight track 6.99 7855 12v curved electric rails 6.99 Technic 8408 Desert Ranger (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Just to clarify, I'm not doing this because Steve is a bricksmith, but because I think that supporting _all_ LTC's is important. PNLTC has stuff of mine on loan (a rail mobile gravitron, and a boxcar), and I loaned them the track in the (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug, lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) Don't feel obligated - and don't do it unless you want to. LEGO is our hobby - not a work commitment. I'm willing to handle it by myself. (...) Actually the tables wouldn't be required, as they have them there for only $8 each. They require (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug, lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) I see. You are certainly right; the Amtrak trains do not have square windows. Since I haven't started modeling passenger trains I haven't really thought about it much, but I think the square windows look good, even if they are not (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Grr. Well, the work-drive-setup-dis...drive-work cycle doesn't appeal to me, not with only 1 or 2 other people to share the load, but.... I'm in. Grr. No guarantees about not going postal after the show, though. I'll take the van down, which (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug, lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) Actually, I destroyed them because I didn't like the proportions. I finally realized that the gray windows were too large to scale to be used if one wanted to prototype US passenger cars. My Hiawathas show proper proportions. Now, I just need (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Are you destroying the gray ones to complete your Hiawatha cars or are you building a new Amtrakish train too? Chris (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | My arch bridge (was Re: My newest creation, Hell Gate Bridge NY)
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(...) Unless I get a large (a few hundred) influx of beams, I'm only going to have the one arch bridge. Given that it's the only one in the world, it's more important (especially with the bridges <grin> trying to be built between LEGO trains and (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Well the deadline (to commit) is tomorrow, and with it being the largest model train show in Canada, if felt strongly enough that there should be a LEGO presence there that I have committed myself to attending and putting on a display on my (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug, lugnet.trains.org)
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Michael You are correct for 9v. the voltage is applied to whichever direction the switch is selected to. My son Martin found out the hard way when he changed one switch, it applied the voltage, and plowed my 4565 into my newly traded MetroLiner! You (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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When you create a siding using two switches does the track not in use become isolated ? this does not work for 12v but I think it does for 9v because the direction of the switch determines which line carries the current. What I want is to have two (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thanks, Bryan. I use these for all of my passenger cars. The car you selected has been selected for extinction;-) Here are my newest versions: (URL) (I try to use the 4 wide version <6081> as much as possible). -John (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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