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Hey folks, For those of you into trains, Phaidon Press has an excellent book called "Station to Station" by Steven Parissien (1997, softcover reprint is 2001). It's basically an architectural history of train stations, from the 1800's all the way (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Call for steam engines
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Steve, you're welcome to use my Atlantic as well. It's one of the first (if not the first) steam engines to be used in actual daily railroad operations. Some 20 were built in the 1830s, and many ran until the 1890s(!). As you may remember, the other (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: F40PH and a material handling car (MOC's)
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Yeah I was wondering that too...what is it? It makes a great cooling fan whatever it is. jt (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: F40PH and a material handling car (MOC's)
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(...) Might those be the bottom half of a 4 x 4 turntable ? Ray (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: F40PH and a material handling car (MOC's)
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Hello Bob, I really like your F40PH! What part(s) did you use to create the cooling fans on top? Robert Powell (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | F40PH and a material handling car (MOC's)
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Here's an F40PH type engine I built to go with the Metroliner: (URL) here's a material handling car (MHC) to put behind the engine: (URL) boring looking, but the real car is kind of boring! Amtrak sure is hurting for money (what is it up to, a $1 (...) (23 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: GFLTC & NGLTC Jacksonville GATS pictures
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Great pictures. Can someone explain how to do the SNOT windows as seen here - (URL) J. Trobaugh" <james@ngltc.org> wrote in message news:Gr1H8n.q9@lugnet.com... (...) (23 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Call for steam engines
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(...) Hi Steve, I know I mentioned these in a private e-mail, but I figured it was worth offerring again: BR18: (2 URLs) I'll get a chance to take some new pics of the BR52 in the not-so-distant future. I redid the piston mechanism, and it works (...) (23 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Call for steam engines
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(...) Dear Steve, I have translated and forwarded your request to www.1000steine.de. I hope under this link, there will appear now lots of train models + links as you have asked for. (URL) ignore the German text and look to the "answers" below each (...) (23 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | GFLTC & NGLTC Jacksonville GATS pictures
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Something went wrong with the orginal folder, so I had to make a new one. All the pictures: (URL) also added many more pictures from the show this weekend. Some of the highlights are: Robin's tower and airport: (URL) strip mall (URL) engines all (...) (23 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Jackson Street Roundhouse Show
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Well, kind of. We're talking about doing a show quarterly. The workspace is down in the work area of the roundhouse in an area that needs to be refurbed still. We'd still need to bring it upstairs to actually display it. -John 3 (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Jackson Street Roundhouse Show
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On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, John Kelly 3 (<GqzLrK.LGq@lugnet.com>) wrote at 02:33:20 (...) *Very* cool news :-) Does this mean that you'll become an exhibit? (not like a fossil, just in the 'people can watch' sense) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | 2 MOW MOC's
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Here's a little crane for laying ties I copied from a product in a Walther's catalog: (URL) here's a ballast spreader of some type(1): (URL) afraid I copied that design from someone's instructions I saw on the web years ago but I forgot who :( - Bob (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Here is two models for you. "General" American 4-4-0 (URL) drive wheels are connected, even though the large wheels only have metal pins. I use a system of tape, axle pins, and joiners to connect them. Cass Scenic Railroad Shay #5 (URL) 9wide train. (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | New old MOCs
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Hey all, I finally got around to uploading most of my train MOCs to Brickshelf. Nothing new that hasn't been seen in PNLTC Train show galleries, but since they're newly compiled to Brickshelf, it seemed appropriate to post. Comments are welcome, of (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains)
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| | BricWorx announcement
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Hi All, The BricWorx foundry would like to announce the following: Chessie System Engine Production Run Extended The first run of the Chessie System diesel engine was quite successful, so management opted for a second production run. This limited (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Switch Track Switch Building for 9v Train Track
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Does anyone know where on the birckbay site this is at? -Ahui (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | GFLTC & NGLTC Jacksonville GATS pictures
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This weekend the GFLTC (Robin, KK) & the NGLTC (James) did a combined display in Jacksonville Florida, here are a preview of the pictures, the rest will be displayed when we all return to our home bases. This was a 40x30 layout...on the floor. It (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: Jackson Street Roundhouse Show
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(...) That is HUGE news. It seems to be a rite of passage (to have a permanent home) for scale clubs. Probably the second or third most common question we got at NoviGATS was "where do you meet, do you have a clubhouse?" or variants like "where is (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Jackson Street Roundhouse Show
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All- We've completed our Jackson Street Roundhouse Show this weekend. Overall, a very enjoyable show. Our pictures are here: (URL) the org right this time...) Some points of interest for us. Our new trailer, CaelGodizilla in town, and our guest (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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