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Chris, The dark green on the "Kathryn" locomotive is nothing more than carefully trimmed contact paper used to line kitchen drawers. Because she was decorated five years ago, the gold pinstriping and lettering was cut and applied by hand under (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, lugnet.publish.photography)
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| | Re: "No Contact" Homebrew Train Sensor for Mindstorms
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Just a follow up to this topic now that I have an RCX of my own (thanks Santa...and my wife) I found that using the Radio Shack light sensors for detecting on coming trains to the crossing works great. No special wiring needed at all, I basicly (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: The Royal Train Website
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* Brian Williams (brian_williams@ameritech.net) [010101 11:54]: (...) Would you do me the favor and explain how you did the coloring of the engine? I have never seen that color. I would *love* to see some tutorials for how you have done stuff. Or (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, lugnet.publish.photography)
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| | Re: Roof building (was Re: The Royal Train Website)
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(...) Daan, If you look at the buildings with the red roofs you can see some black bricks mixed in with the white. The black bricks right under the roof are special parts. The part is basically a right triangle with a small rectangle cut out (where (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 4.5 Volt straight track (p/n 3228), different versions ?
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(...) I know a little. In considering how to mold a part you have to consider every concave surface carefully. Many things with concave surfaces can nevertheless be made with non dynamic two part molds if you choose the mold separation line (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Can anyone tell me how you can build roofs with the plates like you can see in he url Larry ponts out as one of his favourite pictures? I tried to figure it out, but I don't come further as putting them together with the "car-element" (I dont (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Turntables (was: The Royal Train Website)
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(...) Larry, thanks for the pointers. I just got trains for the first time this December and this coupled with talking to Jim Rosikiewicz about gearing problems for his turntable at the last GardenSLUG meeting has had me thinking about how to do (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 4.5 Volt straight track (p/n 3228), different versions ?
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(...) <snippage> (...) (taking a shot into the dark) Might it have something to do with simplifying the mold process for that part. By elminating those 'thru the rail' slots, they now have/had a more simple molding operation. Same might be true of (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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"Rick Clark" <jrclark@nospam.aol.com> wrote in message news:3A513A94.87EF98...aol.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) worked (...) advantages in (...) Along this same line, the train windows currently being produced in the soccer bus sets and in (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: MOC: Bridges for Trains
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(...) Dude, you need to scale those pics way way down... and then repost them. I couldn't wait around for the first one to D/L. And remember, Kevin's bandwidth for brickshelf is being donated, let's not push our Loch, er, luck. The thumbnails look (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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