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(...) That won't help, unfortunately. The theme=xxx thingy matches on the whole string only, not partial strings. Better replacement coming, however; not worth fixing current idiosyncrasies. --Todd (26 years ago, 27-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.admin.database)
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| | H&R Train Show Day One.
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Railroaders, Day one down, two to go, of H & R Train Show. The juges did there round tonight and will award the ribbons tomorrow morning. My display is operating with little trouble, only two monorail recks today. In one of the recks, two monorail (...) (26 years ago, 27-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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I was looking hard at this set in the S@H Canada catalog but it seems expensive, especially seeing it doesn't have a controller with it. Anyone have this set and have opinions on whether it's a good buy or not? And is it fun? <g> Kevin Wilson (...) (26 years ago, 27-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Larry's site
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(...) You have alot of stuff on your site. I went through the first block of links a while ago. Now, I have finally gone through the second block of links. That is all I meant. (...) ^^^^^^^ After looking at your Disney World (or was it Land) (...) (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Larry's site
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(...) Not sure what you're trying to say, Christopher. (...) ?? I'm going to be 40 this year, probably not a boy genius any more. I (...) Yep. (...) I made one from the waiter torso, he has a bow tie. (...) No progress, unfortunately, it's packed (...) (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Glue for models
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woohoo! This is definitely in my field. When I was building models for LEGO we used two different types of glues. (this was different across different model shops, so this really only applies to Enfield.) For 95% of the gluing we used a mix of ABS (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: new stuff on my site (coach, trolley...again, LEGO Logo art)
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(...) I think Liquid plastic modelers cement would work reasonably well for glueing Lego bricks together since it is a solvent (and is intested for Polystyrene which should be sufficiently similar to ABS (Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene) to work). (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Semi-ADMIN: Pause Train Reference Improvement Work in Good Shape
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(...) Not starting the argument, but if I ever say "could care less..." (which I try not to do, I'm on the "couldn't" side) you should tack on an implied "but not MUCH less!", please. (...) Two points, first, I bet I can motorize 2585 without making (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Semi-ADMIN: Pause Train Reference Improvement Work in Good Shape
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(...) YOU'VE written "could care less..." and you're calling yourself pedantic? (kidding) :-) [Please don't start this flame again, I respect both sides of this argument, and just happen to believe that the "couldn't" crowd is the pedantic half] (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.trains)
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| | Larry's site
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Larry, (URL) now I have gotten through section 2 (URL) are younger that I thought....boy genius? (URL) you say....slow...I am connected to internet via ethernet...how about glacial. Harvesters/combines very nice. I didn't realize how big they were (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: new stuff on my site (coach, trolley...again, LEGO Logo art)
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Larry, Hey, do I have to search through lugnet.trains to find some comment made by you as to your diminishing "LEGO purist" standing. Hmmm, don't you have a train with a non-standard decal semi-permanently attached to several bricks? The next thing (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Semi-ADMIN: Pause Train Reference Improvement Work in Good Shape
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Pedant alert... One could make the argument that 2585 is mis-categorized. It's a self propelled vehicle, not a car. Cars are characterised by not having motive power. Given the current choices (cars, locomotives, buildings, Train Set (and why the (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: new stuff on my site (coach, trolley...again, LEGO Logo art)
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(...) There are two major types of power pickups that work on overhead wire. See my site, in the glossary section. A trolley is a kind of train... but anyway, any sprung single pole is a trolley pole, no matter what sort of train it's on. The LEGO (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: new stuff on my site (coach, trolley...again, LEGO Logo art)
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Thanks Larry. You told me what the bubble thing was; so, I figured you would eventually go to my site and you would eventually tell me what the power thingies are. I figured you would get a laugh if I asked by name. I like the (wait for it) part of (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: new stuff on my site (coach, trolley...again, LEGO Logo art)
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(...) Since it seems I was paged... The power thingies are called... (wait for it) Trolley Poles! There is some circularity here which I can't resolve. I don't know if trolley poles are called that because they have a little wheel at the top (the (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: high speed railways and strange flat bed cars
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Christopher Masi wrote in message <36F6B0BC.62F3D5E@cm...ne.edu>... (...) the (...) up (...) The only place I have ever seen differentials mentioned was in relation to geared locomotives like Shays, Climaxes, and Heislers. I think it was Shay who (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | new stuff on my site (coach, trolley...again, LEGO Logo art)
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While we have been talking about grandiose highly technical designs I made couple of simple little models. The new model is a simple coach which resembles the little coaches LEGO produced in the '80's. The other thing I finally decides to do was put (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: high speed railways and strange flat bed cars
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(...) the (...) encouter (...) ends (...) Exactly; rather than the wheelset turning the cars, the first car to enter a curve (or leave it) turns against the "stationary" second car, while the wheelset turns "half as fast", or to half the angle, (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: high speed railways and strange flat bed cars
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(...) That is in fact the reason that they are separate. If they are on a common axle, the outer wheel tends to want to climb up and rub the flange against the inner side of the rail (remember, train wheels have a tapered profile, the diameter on (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: high speed railways and strange flat bed cars
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Larry Pieniazek wrote: snip stuff about footnoting (...) Right the wheels are not on the same axel. At first I thought this was so the wheels could travel at different speeds, but differentials are not brought up elsewhere in trains (are they) so I (...) (26 years ago, 22-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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