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I have put together a look layout look for several of my train creations. I have tried to pair my model made of LEGO bricks with photos of their real-life counterparts. I welcome any comments and criticisms regarding organization, presentation, (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains) !
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| | Re: Pics (and prog) of my Train Crossing
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Wow, the avi really sells it! The gates are nice and slow! I'd reverse the position of the sensors relative to the crossing, so that the arms lower much earlier, then raise right after the train is through. Much more prototype. Half the fun of a (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: new trains
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(...) And I don't want to go buy a Windows PC. Chris (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.fun, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: new trains
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(...) I sort-of agree with that. However, I'm officially supposed to be a castle fan, so I can continue to buy sets for castle parts. :-) (...) If they require a computer to run the trains, I would drop Lego trains and stick to castle, Technic and (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.fun, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Truck move along round
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(...) Why go high-tech when low-tech might work just as well? The last GMLTC layout had a small dump truck that would drive in circles. Here's a thumbnail: (URL) small truck in the center of the picture has a magnet mounted on the front. Underneath (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Truck move along round
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(...) Note that the Miniland autonomous vehicles do this... every so often they come to a stop at a known place, their whiskers pick up recharge and exchange messages with the central controller, and reset their location (they learn how far they've (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: $13 Soccer Buses (white train windows) at eToys
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(...) My Targets had some of these with the soccer ball included for 50% off. (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Truck move along round
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(...) Hi Z. , This will only be possible with limitations. Because you will have several errors every round, you will lose your track after some rounds. This errors are given from (for example) 1. not at once stopping motors when the given value for (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Check LEGO set form Mobile Phone
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Looks like the LUGNET version is WEB only, while this new version is a minimal interface created for some web enabled cell phones. (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Show report
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(...) That's OK, Scott--the festoons of dust flying off just added a nice effect. Artificial smoke without the chemical smell =) I just wanted to add that I, too, had a lot of fun at the show. The whole thing was great. The best part was when kids (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: Show report
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(...) My collection outgrew closets long ago. Now it's threatening to outgrow the entire basement. :-) Oh, you mean *that* closet. Well I do want/need to put a rainbow sticker on my car, it's true, but I'm happy with the side of the bread my butter (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Show report
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(...) I usually try to crop or reduce the size of pictures, but it certainly adds time to the process. What would be nice is if Brickshelf had some way to specify on your viewing the max picture size you wanted to see, and then it would auto-scale (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: Show report
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(...) Er, that is, I am *trying* to delete it but not having any luck... ++Lar (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: Show report
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(...) Yes, but I don't like to take reduced resolution pics... and I didn't have the time to go through and make them smaller. So I dumped them all up with no QC (...) ++Lar (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: Show report
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(...) indeed: and even nosediving engines offer lots of fun (and memorable moments), after you have survived the first shock and found out nothong important is broken... (...) That's in fact planned for the next meeting. (...) Ok, that's the (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: Check LEGO set form Mobile Phone
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(...) thats exactly what Lugnet offers here (URL) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Check LEGO set form Mobile Phone
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(...) thats exactly what Lugnet offers here (URL) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: new trains
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I have pretty much put immediate Lego purchases on hold based on the notion that Lego will be releasing new train items soon. Even with some of the bargains going around right now, I would much rather have new 9v train items than a bunch of $10 (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.fun, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Show report
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Scott Sanburn wrote in message ... (...) Hmmm... you're the closet that Larry's coming out of? :-) Kevin ---...--- Victorian House: Limited edition kit (URL) Kits & Custom Lego models: (URL) store: (URL) auctions: (URL) Lego Web page: (URL) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: Baseplate vs Brick landscape (was: Re: Show report)
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In lugnet.trains.org, James Trobaugh writes: <snip> (...) You could do it in sections like I did for the last show that WAMALUG (and coincidently I) did. Keeping it to one 32 long X 'N' wide sections, you can do a faily decent mountain. Rich -- Have (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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