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"Kung-Khoon Quah" <kquah1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message news:Gs58Iu.H59@lugnet.com... | Hopefully GFLTC has the honor to be the first to run the Santa Fe Super | Chief on an operating train track at the SMRC Train Show in Palmetto, | Florida (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: My Sante Fe 10020
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(...) I've seen the term "push-pull" (in at least one coffee-table type railfan book) used to refer to one locomotive at each end of a consist. Is that incorrect usage of the term, or does it have two completely different meanings? -- Tony Hafner (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Is the word out? (Was Re: 10020 Registry opinion)
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"James J. Trobaugh" <james@ngltc.org> wrote in message > (...) are (...) I think that the registry was a great idea for the following reasons; 1. See how many are purchased through LUGNET and RTL people. 2.. Track the distribution of numbers. There (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: GFLTC at SMRC Palmetto Train Show w Super Chief
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(...) Yeah, I know. I found that one out myself. Unfortunately, my Super Chief ran off a meter high table. :-( Regards, Steve Martin IndyLUG (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| | GFLTC at SMRC Palmetto Train Show w Super Chief
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Hopefully GFLTC has the honor to be the first to run the Santa Fe Super Chief on an operating train track at the SMRC Train Show in Palmetto, Florida this weekend Feb 23 & 24. Thanks to Robin Werner for fast shipping the Super Chief and building the (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: HoMa and the Trans Namib
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(...) Bet you a dollar he's typing on a non german keyboard and is a touch typist. German keyboards have the Y and Z transposed from English/American ones and if you don't remember that you tend to transpose. I know I did when I was using them (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Oh man... Sweet! Have you found any diamond yet? ;-) Namibia sounds cool. Or hot, depending on where you stand! (...) TIA for the pics, and a little PS: check the keyboard, there is something wrong with the "y's"... :-P Pedro (Loking forward (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi @ll, just realized while relaxing in the Desert Express office that I am not onlz a topic in Windhoeks german newspaper :-) Yeah, this is really a fascinating trip the people from Desert Express and the inwolved tourism operators (AVIS - giving a (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Porthole alternative
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"Bram Lambrecht" <bram@cwru.edu> wrote in message news:000101c1be6b$f6...1681@bl... (...) *Not* a coincidence... ;-) Cheers ---...--- Carlo Ottolina Lugnet #24 (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) of (...) That is a very good design. Thanks for the tip--I have been wanting to use these porthole panels this way but did not take time to engineer it. My first thought about portholes for trains (especially 10020) was to use thin-wall panel (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) hey! that's my stuff :) You are correct, I originally posted the MR Trainmaster in December. I just made the boxcars and the container car this weekend, the caboose had been finished in December but not posted, because I wanted to wait until I (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: No big Deal: B-Unit for 10020 Super Chief
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(...) Union rules. Back when, anything with a number was a loco. Since a B unit had no number, it was not a loco, hence not needing a crew... That's why you see 300F, 300A, 300 B, 300C for example on a ABBA arrangement of F units (IIRC, that was (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: No big Deal: B-Unit for 10020 Super Chief
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(...) 3 is right for most "B" units. If you want specifics, get appropriate copies of "Extra 2200 South" (IIRC, that is the correct title, the railfan's Diesel spotter mag) (...) Ya, the real ones would have doors in the nose. My F has a simulated (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: My Sante Fe 10020
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(...) Trains are on the upsurge as a theme among adults (thanks in large part to all the clubs and their activities). And this 10020 both confirms the momentum (why build it if it isn't going to sell?) and will help build that momentum. We have a (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: My Sante Fe 10020
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(...) Thanks. Bear with me, I'm kinda new to all this train stuff. I dabbled in HO as a kid, and am only recently getting interested in LEGO trains. (...) Well I guess I don't get out much then :-/ --Bill. XFUT: back to lugnet.trains (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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(...) Hey, at least this ad is of value to both the consumer and the seller :) It seems to have worked...I've already sold 16 panels. That might just have been a coincidence though. --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu www.bldesign.org (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: My Sante Fe 10020
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(...) They can run steady, or flash also... (...) Odd, & eliminates a turntable... Josh (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: No big Deal: B-Unit for 10020 Super Chief
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(...) Bill, Check out (URL) to that article, the different number of portholes is based on the actual locomotive. FT A and B units had 4 portholes each, F3 A and B units had 3 portholes each, and F7 A units had 2 portholes, while F7 B units had 3. (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: My Sante Fe 10020
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(...) The lower 2 non centered of the three non oscillating lights are called "ditch" lights. (...) This is almost completely standard commuter train practice, it's called "push pull" operation. SEMTA, SEPTA, MTA, CTA, Metro North, you name it, they (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: No big Deal: B-Unit for 10020 Super Chief
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(...) Um, they're not. It just took some stubborn railways a while to learn that. (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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