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If you haven't read (URL) it now! The firmest endorsement I've ever heard from Lego that new trains are coming! I was getting worried for a bit when I noticed the 45xx numbering has been used on non-train stuff (those funky racer things) Matt (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LEGO Trains on trial?
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(...) While LEGO Trains have not been well supported in the past I believe theey they will continue. As for 4565 not being the the S@H catalog, I guess they missed it. It IS in the regular german catalog along with the new Alpha Team items and all (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Help from the train experts ...
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(...) OK, so I'm not crazy (not legally, anyway! ;-) I only saw them in a large yard, in Edmonton, near the airport. Never on the roads...and I don't think I ever saw a 'real' "B" unit before the pictures I saw today. (In the SF Bay Area, I'm on one (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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I got tracks and train set recent, now I am planing to make motorize switch point, level crossing, cargo crane, and so on, I want to refer all other information and instructions from train experts, does any tell me where I can find most useful (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New Observation car
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(...) That, and it was the only way I could come up with doing it, even after working on it for quite a while. Chris (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) A slug runs off the excess current produced by the unit it is mated to. Slugs are used in low-speed service such as switching in a yard, where tractive effort is more important than speed. The vast majority of slugs are old locomotives cut (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I'm not sure what CN units you're referring to. (...) No. If they're cut down, they're definitely slugs. Slugs don't need the prime mover, radiator, blowers, dynamic brake vents and cooling fans, etc., since they've been castrated. This GP60B (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: SuperTrain 2001 layout - Dual main lines?
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(...) Here's the town, bridge and switching yard as I currently have them. (URL) the moment, my method of running multiple trains is just that - run multiple trains on the one main loop. It's so long that two or three trains can run on it for quite (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Strangely, these look like "full-height" units...I say it's odd only because I've only seen this one other time, in Edmonton, and the CN units were between 1/2 and 2/3 as tall as normal units. It seemed like you could put them in front of a (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New Observation car
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(...) of (...) from (...) dome (...) Ah, that is a great way to preserve what symmetry you can. later, James Mathis (...) few (...) think (...) everyone (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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I've used this kind of glass roof on a building before, with both ends fixed. I'll try to get a picture. Eric (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: A piece in 4551
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(...) is this the piece you mean? (URL) 1 in black, and 5 in gray... (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Help from the train experts ...
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(...) Mike, The locomotive you are describing is an EMD GP60B (B as in booster). 23 of these were built by GM between July and September of 1991. With a 710G prime mover, they develop 3,800 HP. Santa Fe was the only railroad to purchase the cabless (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: A piece in 4551
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(...) I'd call it a "2x2 tile with top peg". They are often in Basic sets (used to hold helicopter propellers), although it is unusual for Basic sets to have the most desirable color for trains - black or gray. Steve (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | A piece in 4551
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I want to know what name of a piece in 4551, it is a 2x2 plate with a spin, like a small bogie plate, could you tell me which sets include this piece and where I can get them? Br Zhengrong (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) This is a beaut. Really reminds me of Budd stainless steel fluted even though it doesn't have any fluting and it isn't stainless. But the way the tail rounds around but not too much really is nice. Clever use of the large thinwall panels. (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I've already spent considerable time pondering this problem, but I haven't found a solution I liked. If I were to add a table in the middle and shuffle/squeeze the track on both sides to accommodate a fourth "main" line as you suggest, there's (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Just confirming what everyone else is saying, it's a "B" unit. These are less and less common these days as the savings you get on initial purchase from not buying a cab isn't as much as it used to be and the operating flexibility you lose is (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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I want to say a B unit of a EMD/ 1980 engine something like that. i e-mailed the dude to see if he knew anything (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) It's a "B" unit, that is to say, it does not have a crew cab. That's the only difference from a normal unit...it is designed to go in the middle of a consist, and not at the driving end. It's cheaper for the railway, when they are going to (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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