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(...) Nice, but that should be: (URL) (23 years ago, 3-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | GMLTC Show Pictures -- Day One
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I keep replying to myself... bad form. Anyway. Here are the pictures I (...) (23 years ago, 3-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Another dwatted DATted point motor
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Okay, here's my point motor design, in DAT form: (URL) powerful enough to operate a normal (unmodified) point, but it's also overrun protected thanks to the double belt drive. Personally, I like to link two of these together to operate a passing (...) (23 years ago, 2-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Call for steam engines
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(...) (URL) only non-obvious detail is the coupling between the loco & the extensions - uses an axle mounted vertically on the centre wheelsets, with a 3x2 plate with hole fitting over the top. The rest of the loco is mostly My Own Train. ROSCO (23 years ago, 2-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Call for steam engines
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Steve Barile wrote in message ... (...) This is old, but if it's any use to you Steve, feel free... (URL) Hospital 2396 piece kit! (URL) Lego Kits & Custom models: (URL) Lego parts store: (URL) Guild of Bricksmiths(TM): (URL) Lego Web page: (URL) (23 years ago, 2-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Call for steam engines
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Hi All, I am writing the material to present at BricksWest in the Train Session and need some help. If you have a steam engine built can you send me a URL to pics of it. And please don't be shy. BTW This isn't a competition or anything I just would (...) (23 years ago, 1-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains) !
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| | Re: Two Easy Questions about Rolling Stock
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Hi Kevin, in June last year I answered a similar question at lugnet.trains: (URL) at the raw message to "see" my "drawings" correctly) Kind regards, HoMa Some rolling stock inspirations: (URL)....If the house is on fire, the Lego goes out first... (...) (23 years ago, 1-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Engine Identity Problem
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(...) I feel like giving a bit of insight: The Amtrak F59PHI is a standard built F59PHI... The Go Transit F59PH, is a Wide bodied form of another loco, possibly GP35/38/40... Go transit names it an F59PH, because of their OWN classification rules (...) (23 years ago, 1-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Longest train, eh? (was: Two Easy Questions about Rolling Stock)
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(...) You really try to tell me you put a record train to track and have not documented it? That's too bad... How are we supposed to break your record, when we do not know what numbers are to beat? FGLTC records are quite clear: 1. - put more than (...) (23 years ago, 1-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Longest train, eh? (was: Two Easy Questions about Rolling Stock)
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(...) I checked your page again, and it looks like you added some other details as well regarding this. That's also a much "cleaner" record in the sense that you pulled it like a real train (front only). Very nice work! -- Tony Hafner (...) (23 years ago, 1-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Longest train, eh? (was: Two Easy Questions about Rolling Stock)
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(...) I don't think we mentioned this particular record at the time. We don't have it documented and I'm totally going from memory. (...) No, the *loop* was more like 240 feet or so. I mean that the *train* was somewhere around 150 feet. The layout (...) (23 years ago, 1-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | MOC - SD75M Santa Fe- ish color scheme
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Hi! Here's my first attempt at a digital photo of one of my MOC's: (URL) a SD75M (sort of). Let me know what you think, but please be gentle! This is my first posting of a MOC! - Bob (23 years ago, 1-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New Waggon in 7-wide / plus combine harvester /3rd 7-w waggon finished
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(...) And now there is the 3rd new 7-wide waggon in 3 days... But no big deal this time: more or less just a copy of the first waggon, but with different freight and in colour brown. I love these flap pieces: I have similar waggons (but 6-w) in (...) (23 years ago, 1-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) - well done for a busy man! (...) In the middel there are just the 2 hubs. At the end there are on each side 1 8860 hub, a 395 wheel with grey tyre(from set 100) and on the end a 4x4 radar dish. What I loved most on my model is a really small (...) (23 years ago, 1-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Longest train, eh? (was: Two Easy Questions about Rolling Stock)
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(...) Ok, I will change that text: it is obviously wrong - my mistake. But in real life speed records with trains have to be made in both directions and for long Lego train records, I am of the opinion that a record should only count if the long (...) (23 years ago, 1-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Point Motor Instructions
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(...) Another neat one - mine looks pretty similar, though I use a belt drive. Those white gears are a bit hard to come by, and I don't have any of those steering plates with a built-in rack either. Still, using a steering bar and a 1x4 rack only (...) (23 years ago, 1-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Two Easy Questions about Rolling Stock
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(...) 8 Studs between wheel blocks. This is the answer I was looking for. I am well stocked with Bogie plates, but I have seen many good-looking (cute) short waggons of about 16 studs in total length. I thought I might try building some short wagons (...) (23 years ago, 1-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Longest train, eh? (was: Two Easy Questions about Rolling Stock)
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(...) Ya, for those wossies who use more than 1 motor, it is needed. For those of us who restrain ourselves to a single motor, one controller is fine :) (...) I'd agree. At 90+ cars, the only way with a single motor was to "pick up" (or, in (...) (23 years ago, 1-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: GMLTC Announces Show Date for Feb 2,3 in St. Paul, MN
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I have posted the setup pictures from tonight to our website. (URL) if you are interested, my model builder pictures were finally taken off (...) (23 years ago, 1-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Engine Identity Problem
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Hello Kai, The Amtrak site shows a EMD F59PHI and GO site shows a EMD F59PH. According to my Field Guide to Trains, both are essentially GP59's wit different body work. Both are the same length @ 59' 2" but the F59PHI has 3200 horse power compared (...) (23 years ago, 1-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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